The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha

“A book to be kept close at hand for a lifetime–it will long endure as a classic of scholarship and render the teachings of the historical Buddha accessible to any who have eyes to see and the interest to look.”– “Inquiring Mind”“A priceless gift.”–Joseph Goldstein, author of A Heart Full of Peace and One Dharma“A triumph.”– “The Middle Way”“An amazing work that speaks to us across 2500 years [to] open up new and precious insights into the depths of Buddhist history and thought.”– “Mountain Record”“As close as we’ll get to the original teachings and account of the life of the Buddha.”– “Tricycle”“Bhikkhu Bodhi is a brilliant translator.”–Jack Kornfield, author of After the Ecstasy, the Laundry

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City, born in 1944. He obtained a BA in philosophy from Brooklyn College and a PhD in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School. After completing his university studies he traveled to Sri Lanka, where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk, Ven. Balangoda Ananda Maitreya (1896-1998). From 1984 to 2002 he was the editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, where he lived for ten years with the senior German monk, Ven. Nyanaponika Thera (1901-1994), at the Forest Hermitage. He returned to the U.S. in 2002. He currently lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York. Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor. These include The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (Majjhima Nikaya, 1995), The Connected Discourses of the Buddha (Samyutta Nikaya, 2000), and The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha (Anguttara Nikaya, 2012). In 2008, together with several of his students, Ven. Bodhi founded Buddhist Global Relief, a nonprofit supporting hunger relief, sustainable agriculture, and education in countries suffering from chronic poverty and malnutrition.