Nyanaponika Thera
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Nyanaponika Maha Thera
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Birth name:	Siegmund Feniger
Born:	July 21, 1901(1901-07-21)
Place of birth:	Hanau, Germany
Died:	October 19, 1994 (aged 93)
Place of death:	Kandy, Sri Lanka
Religion:	Theravada
Title(s):	Mahathera (Great Elder)
Workplace:	Forest Hermitage
Occupation:	monk; co-founder, Buddhist Publication Society
Successor(s):	Bhikkhu Bodhi (at BPS)
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Nyanaponika Thera or Nyaniponika Mahathera (July 21, 1901, Hanau – 19 October 1994, Forest Hermitage, Kandy, Ceylon) was a German-born Sri-Lanka-ordained Theravada monk, co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Society^[1], contemporary author of numerous seminal Theravada books, and teacher of contemporary Western Buddhist leaders such as Bhikkhu Bodhi.¹

Chronology

• 1901: born Siegmund Feniger in Germany.
• 1936: moved to Sri Lanka, where he was ordained as a Buddhist monk by Ven. Nyanatiloka Thera (1878-1957).
• 1958: helped to found the Buddhist Publication Society:
  • served as editor-in-chief until 1984,
  • served as president until 1988.
• 1994: died at the Forest Hermitage outside of Kandy, Sri Lanka.

Publications (partial list)

• Abhidhamma Studies: Buddhist Explorations of Consciousness and Time (1998)
• Great Disciples of the Buddha : Their Lives, Their Works, Their Legacy (2003)
• The Heart of Buddhist Meditation (1973)
• Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (2000), with Bhikkhu Bodhi
• The Vision of Dhamma (2000)

Notes

1. ^ In the preface of the posthumously published Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: An Anthology of Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya (1999, co-authored with Bhikkhu Bodhi, published by Altamira Press, Walnut Creek, CA), p. xv, Bodhi writes: "The original version of this anthology was compiled by my personal mentor, the eminent German scholar-monk Venerable Nyanaponika Thera...."

References

• Accesstoinsight.org short biography
• BPS's "About Us" page
• "For the Welfare of Many" (1994), obituary by Bhikkhu Bodhi, originally published as the BPS Newsletter cover essay no. 28 (3rd mailing, 1994).

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