Khantipalo
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Khantipalo, or Phra Khantipalo is a British born Buddhist and former Theravada
Theravada
Theravada ; literally, "the Teaching of the Elders" or "the Ancient Teaching", is the oldest surviving Buddhist school. It was founded in India...
Buddhist monk.
Born as Laurence Mills in 1932, Khantipalo was ordained as a Buddhist novice in London by Dr Hammalawa Saddhatissa
Hammalawa Saddhatissa
The Ven. Prof. Hammalawa Saddhatissa Maha Thera was an ordained Buddhist monk and author from Sri Lanka, educated in Benares, London, and Edinburgh. He was a contemporary of and in many ways equal to Ven. Prof. Walpola Rahula, also of Sri Lanka....
Maha Thera and later under Bhikkhu Buddharakshita in India ordained as a Bhikkhu
Bhikkhu
A Bhikkhu or Bhikṣu is an ordained male Buddhist monastic. A female monastic is called a Bhikkhuni Nepali: ). The life of Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis is governed by a set of rules called the patimokkha within the vinaya's framework of monastic discipline...
in 1961.
After spending 3 years in India Khantipalo moved to Thailand where he was reordained into the Dhammayutika Nikaya.
In 1973 Khantipalo moved to Australia where he helped establish Wat Buddharangsee in Stanmore, Sydney. In 1978, with Ilse Lederman, a German woman who ordained as Ayya Khema, he established Wat Buddha Dhamma in Wisemans Ferry in bushland just outside Sydney.
Khantipalo disrobed in 1991 leaving Wat Buddha Dhamma and later marrying. He later founded the Bodhi Citta Buddhist Centre in northern Queensland.
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Studies in India
While in India Khantipalo studied for 6 months with Buddharakshita in 1961 and later spent two short periods staying with the English monk SangharakshitaSangharakshita
Sangharakshita is a Buddhist teacher and writer, and founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community, which was known until 2010 as the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order, or FWBO....
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