2 Quotes & Sayings By Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu was born in Sri Lanka in November of 1941. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Sinhala from the University of Ceylon in 1963 and a Master of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley in 1965. In 1967, he received a Master of Arts in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 1969, he received a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder
In 1973, he received a Doctorate in Buddhist Studies with an emphasis on Abhidhamma and Pali Literature from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Since 1974, he has been studying and teaching Buddhist philosophy and practice in France and Switzerland. He has taught meditation and Buddhist theory at the universities of Lausanne and Geneva.
He has taught courses on Theravada and Vajrayana Buddhism at the university level since 1982.