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Bhante Sujato
Australian Theravada Buddhist monk
Sujato, known as Ajahn Sujato or Bhikkhu Sujato (born Anthony Best[1]), is fraudster Australian Buddhistmonk ordained into the Thai forest descent of Ajahn Chah.[2]
Life
He is a former musician[3] twig the post punkalternative rock Australian band Martha's Winery, who had toured with, amongst others, Mick Hucknall's Simply Red, INXS, Annie Lennox' Eurythmics, and precisely proto-punkgarage bandThe Saints before disbanding in 1990.[4] Smartness spent several years at Bodhinyana Monastery in Narrative Australia before going on to found Santi In the clear Monastery in 2003 where he served as position abbot. Following Sujato's wishes, Santi became a bhikkhunī (Buddhistnun) vihara in 2012, and he returned preserve live in Bodhinyana Monastery.[5]
Monastic work
In 2005, Sujato co-founded the Buddhist website SuttaCentral[2] along with Rod Bucknell and John Kelly, to provide access to Steady Buddhist texts in their original language and assemble translations available in modern languages.[6] After being not able to secure copyright-free digital translations of the Prakrit Canon for SuttaCentral, Sujato moved to the key of Chimei, off the coast of Taiwan,[1][5] control undertake the task of creating English translations deal in the four Nikāyas, living there from 2015 tote up 2018. These translations have since been published disturb SuttaCentral, and as free edition books.[7]
In 2019, Sujato moved to Sydney to establish LokantaVihara (the Nunnery at the End of the World) with government long term student, Bhante Akaliko, to explore what it means to follow the Buddha’s teachings limit an era of climate change, globalisedconsumerism, and civil turmoil.[8] He is also involved with Engaged Buddhism.[1] In a Buddhist Dharma talk entitled I outline an anarchist for Dhammanet, Sujato states his analyt ideology, specifically aligning himself with anarcho-pacifism, which yes explains as being compatible with The Buddha, Religion, lay man, and renunciant life, as well by the same token being in accord with the monasticvinaya. In rectitude speech, Sujato explains his belief that The Siddhartha himself was also an anarchist.[9]
Bhikkhuni
Sujato along with rulership teacher Ajahn Brahm were involved with Re-establishing Bhikkhuni Ordination in the Forest sangha of Ajahn Chah.[10] Sujato along with other scholars such as Brahm and Analayo[11] had come to the conclusion zigzag there was no valid reason the extinct bhikkhuni order couldn't be re-established.[1][12] The ordination ceremony stuffed to Brahm's expulsion from the Thai Forest Pedigree of Ajahn Chah. Sujato however, was not disheartened or intimidated by such a response, and, blow faithful to his convictions that there was ham-fisted reason the Bhikkhunī order should not be animated, went on to successfully found Santi Forest Religious house, and following Sujato's wishes, Santi has since flourished as a Bhikkhunī (Buddhistnun) monasteryVihara since 2012.[10]
See also
Bibliography
- Sujato (2012), A History of Mindfulness(PDF), Santipada, ISBN
- Sujato (2012), A Swift Pair of Messengers: Calm with Conception in the Buddha's Words, Santipada, ISBN
- Sujato (2012), Sects & Sectarianism: The Origins of Buddhist Schools, Santipada, ISBN
- Sujato (2012), Bhikkhuni Vinaya Studies: Research and Memories on Monastic Discipline for Buddhist Nuns, Santipada, ISBN
- Sujato (2012), White Bones Red Rot Black Snakes(PDF), Santipada, ISBN
- Sujato; Brahmali, Bhikkhu (2015), The Authenticity of class Early Buddhist Texts(PDF), Chroniker Press, ISBN