On Bhikkhu Thanissaro

Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) has been a Theravada Buddhist monk since 1976. After studying in Thailand with Ajaan Fuang Jotiko for ten years, he returned to the U.S. in 1991 to help found Metta Forest Monastery in the mountains north of San Diego where he is currently Abbot. Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s writing includes a translation of the Dhammapada, Noble Strategy, The Mind Like Fire Unbound, and The Wings to Awakening. He has also translated several meditation guides by Thai forest masters.

A print edition of Thanissaro Bhikkhu's sutta translations is available in a four-volume book entitled, Handful of Leaves. Volume 1, which includes suttas from the Digha and Majjhima Nikayas, is available free of charge upon request from:
Sati Center for Buddhist Studies
PO Box 2021
Santa Cruz, CA 95063-2021
USA
Volume 2 (Samyutta Nikaya) is expected by the end of March, 2003.

Further Resources:

^[1]This is the link to the Here and Now Org description of the Metta Forest Monastery. The Metta Forest Monestery also has a website (http://www.mettaforest.org/ ). This is a very badly designed site in that anyone that has activeX turned off has to click a half dozen times just to see the front page, or the front page has no access to any other pages. Every other page requires additional clicks...also there is no way to contact the webmaster of the site to let him know how inaccessable the site is.

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