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Ven. Dhammadipa was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
in 1949. He is a world-renowned meditation teacher and a learned scholar of
Buddhism as well as Sanskrit, Pali, and Chinese philosophy. He studied
philosophy and Chinese at the Prague University, Russian literature at
Jerusalem University, and completed graduate degrees in Chinese and philosophy
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From 1979, he spent five years at the Nalanda
University in India, both as a student of Sanskrit and Buddhist philosophy and
also as a lecturer in German and French.
In 1987, he received traditional Theravada ordination in Meetirigala, Sri
Lanka, where he practiced meditation under Venerable Nanarama Mahathera. In
1989 he received his Three Fold ordination (Samanera ordination, Bodhisattva
vows and full ordination) as Mahayana Monk in Hsi Lai Temple, Los Angeles.
Since then he has been providing dharma teaching in US, Germany and Taiwan.
He went to Myanmar to practice meditation with the great meditation master
Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw in 1996 and was considered by the Sayadaw the very
first Western disciple who is qualified to teach meditation. Starting on 1999,
he has been teaching Samatha and Vipassana meditation at western and Asian
monasteries and universities around the world. In addition, he also devotes his
time in writing and translating Buddhist text into French and Czech. His
translated works include Treatise on the Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana
(Mahayanasraddhotpada-sastra 大乘起信論), Entry into the Bodhisattva Path
(Bodhicaryavatara 入菩薩行) and a Collection of Han-San’s (寒山) Poems. Some of his
teachings have been published in Chinese. These publications
include 念處之道:《大念處經》講記 (The Path of Satipathana), 四聖諦與修行的關係:《轉法輪經》講記 (The Four Noble Truths And The Practice),
四無量心 (Four Immeasurables), and 阿毘達摩的理論與實踐 (The Theory and application of
Abhidhamma).
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