Bhikkhu Anālayo

Bhikkhu Anālayo is a scholar-monk and the author of numerous books on meditation and early Buddhism. He is the co-founder of the Āgama Research Group (Taiwan) and a Faculty Member at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (Barre, MA, US), having retired from being a professor at the Numata Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Hamburg (Germany). His main area of academic research is early Buddhism, with a special interest in the topics of meditation and women in Buddhism. He regularly teaches practice courses on Buddhist meditation. Bhikkhu Anālayo lives a secluded lifestyle, devoting most of his time to solitary meditation practice.

Bhikkhu Anālayo is the author of Satipatthāna: The Direct Path to Realization, the bestselling Mindfulness of Breathing and the Nautilus Award winner Mindfully Facing Disease and Death as well as Introducing Mindfulness, Mindfulness in Early Buddhism, A Meditator’s Life of the Buddha, Perspectives on Satipatthāna and Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation.