Bhante vimalaramsi biography sample

  • Venerable Bhante Vimalaramsi is the first American born monk who has been named as the first US Representative to the World Buddhist Supreme Conference.
  • Bhante Ānanda is a Canadian Buddhist monk trained in the Teaching and Way of Life (Dhamma-Vinaya) of early Buddhism.
  • Bhante Vimalaramsi became a Buddhist monk in because of his keen interest in meditation.

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    stephen hendry, modified 14 Years ago at 9/14/10 PM
    Created 14 Years ago at 9/14/10 PM

    Bhante Vimalaramsi

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    I begin this post because I seen there was another thread about Bhante Vimalaramsi. ( BV )

    I wish to talk about my personal experience of BV, perhaps I am worrying about nothing but after contemplating this issue I dont think I am worrying about nothing.

    I am concerned for the welfare of vulnerable people who may go to BV for spiritual guidance.

    I was a monk for 2 years in Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. For most of those 2 years BV and I were close friends.

    We lived in various temples together. There was a little gang of Western monks who practised together. BV was on the outskirts of our little free lance group. I even attended some of his meditation retreats he led in Malaysia after he returned from Burma.

    Why I am concerned about the

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    The Rising Edge

    The practice inom follow fryst vatten called TWIM, or Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation, started by a monk named Bhante Vimalaramsi, who lived in Missouri before passing last year.

    I recently came across some YouTube videos which were critical both of TWIM, Bhante Vimalaramsi and the active leadership of TWIM. I’m not going to name him, because it doesn’t matter. No set of ideas goes unchallenged, and inom don’t even think that’s a bad thing. And, to be fair, he is pretty critical of every Buddhist school I’ve heard of. I’m not a Buddhist scholar, so in the history of Buddhism I’m probably not going out on a limb to speculate that there have probably been hundreds of schools of teaching, each emphasizing some aspect of learning the dhamma, or the teachings of the Buddha.

    The teachings of the Buddha were transmitted orally before being written down in writings called “suttas”, which are narratives or discourses spoken bygd him or his följare. At some point they were written do

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      Bhante Vimalaramsi’s Background

     Bhante Vimalaramsi became a Buddhist monk in because of his keen interest in meditation. He went to Burma in to practice intensive mediation at the famous meditation center, Mahasi Yeiktha in Rangoon. There he practiced meditation for 20 to 22 hours a day for almost a year, then because of some social unrest, all foreigners were asked to leave the country, so Bhante went to Malaysia and practiced intensive Loving-kindness meditation for 6 months.

    In , Bhante went back to Burma for more intensive “Vipassana” meditation, for 16 hours a day, at Chanmyay Yeiktha in Rangoon. He practiced for 2 years, sometimes sitting in meditation for as long as 7 to 8 hours a sitting. After two years of intensive meditation and experiencing what they said was the final res

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