Maha ghosananda biography of mahatma

  • Maha Ghosananda was a highly revered Cambodian Buddhist monk in the Theravada tradition, who served as the Patriarch (Sangharaja) of Cambodian Buddhism.
  • The Venerable Maha Ghosananda was born in in the fertile plains of the Mekong Delta, into a farming clan in a small village of Takeo Province, Cambodia.
  • Peter Gyallay-Pap tells the story of the late Ven. Maha Ghosananda, “great proclaimer of joy,” the peace-activist monk who was Cambodia's spiritual leader.

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    (Top) Venerable Santi, the author of this wonderful biography of Somdech Maha Ghosananda.

    (Bottom) Somdech Preah Maha Ghosananda
    Somdech Preah Maha Ghosananda Gandhi of Cambodia:

    Birth: , 83 Years old,

    Death: March 12,


    The Buddha of the Battlefields
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    Buddha Prophecy
    By Venerable Santi

    Author of this distinguishing, mesmerising biography,

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    In the North, the thunder roars &#;Fire Burns the water,

    The Bodhi Tree and the jungle&#;
    The tigress always finds food in the jungle.

    Even while asleep,

    She safeguards our religion&#;.When the sun goes down,

    The tigress sets forth to extinguish the blaze.
    [A well known Khmer prophecy]*********
    This small notebook in pdf. file
    Detailed Biography




    CONTENTS


    I: Introduction



    2: Samdech Preah Maha Ghosananda



    3: Birth and Childhood



    4: Rhythm of Khmer Life



    5: Education



    6: Fifteen Years In India



    7: Meditation in the Forest



    8: Suffering of the World



    9: Buddha of the Battlefields



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    Peace in Every Step

    by VASANA CHINVARAKORN, Bangkok Post, August 31,

    The late Maha Ghosananda of Cambodia proved the healing power of wisdom and compassion

    Bangkok, Thailand -- There was some inexpressibly cool and unhurried sense of peacefulness that exuded from the man. The year was , November 5 to be exact. I was attending an inter-faith conference at a small town about an hour's drive from Phnom Penh.

    << "Peace is possible" - Maha Ghosananda's life ( - ) is a testament to the wisdom of loving-kindness.

    He was there among the crowds who came to give their blessing to the opening of the auspicious event. I felt something special about this frail but ever-smiling monk although I couldn't tell why. "Oh, that is Venerable Maha Ghosananda; he is very famous in Cambodia," whispered Buddhist scholar Chatsumarn Kabilsingh, urging me to interview him.

    So I did. But as obliging as Maha Ghosananda was with a then green-horn journalist like me, I fou

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    Maha Ghosananda

    The Making of a Monk: Cambodia's Maha Ghosananda

    [Adapted from introductions by Jack Kornfield, Dith Pran, and Jane Sharada Mahoney and Philip Edmonds to Maha Ghosananda's Step by Step: Meditations on Wisdom and Compassion (Parallax Press, Berkeley, California, ) Reprinted with permission.]

    Maha Ghosananda,
    Cambodia's Gandhi,
    preaching in Battambang.

    Samdech Preah Maha Ghosananda, supreme leader of Cambodian Buddhism, represents to many the essence of sweet generosity and unstoppable courage of heart. Just to be in his presence, to experience his smile and the infectious loving kindness that flows from him fryst vatten healing to the spirit.

    He moves easily between many worlds: as a forest monk, as a father figure for Cambodian children, as a translator and scholar of fifteen languages, as a meditation mästare for Western students, as a peacemaker at the United Nations, and as one of the living treasures of Cambodia, leading the Khmer refugee communities a