Modern Buddhist Masters - This is one of the most valuable books in print on Theravada Buddhist practice, bringing to the reader the precise instructions of twelve great meditation masters, including Mahasi Sayadaw, Achaan Chah, and U Ba Khin. With lucid introductory chapters and photos.
In this book the life of the Buddha is explored through the perspective of his interactions with his disciples and contemporaries, using the society of the time as background. An accessible work especially suited for young people and newcomers to Buddhism.
This volume combines all past issues of the BPS’s popular “Lives of the Disciples” series of Wheels. It offers inspiring and informative accounts of such great disciples of the Master as Ven. Sariputta, Moggallana, Ananda, Maha Kassapa, etc.
Ven. Nyanatiloka was one of the pioneers of Buddhism in the modern world and the first European Buddhist monk. As the world’s senior Western bhikkhu, ordained in 1903, Nyanatiloka attracted many disciples, through whose work his influence continues to be felt today, more than fifty years after his death. Nyanatiloka was also a renowned scholar and translator of Pali scriptures. His classic The Word of the Buddha, written more than a century ago, is still widely read.
Bhikshu Sangharakshita and Dharmapala the Lion of Lanka might never have been born, and the greatness of the difference that such a calamity would have made to India, Buddhism, and the world, it is now impossible for us to gauge