Ñāṇadīpa Thera

Venerable Ñāṇadīpa Thera Thera was born in France in 1944, but grew up in Denmark. He was ordained as a samanera in 1969 and as a bhikkhu in 1971. After living eight years in Bundala, in the kuti of Ven. Ñāṇavīr Thera, he moved to Thailand for a year and then back to Sri Lanka, where he spent most of his life secluded in the National Parks or near their borders. He was living a whole fifty monastic years as a hermit. He passed away in September 2020 in a forest hermitage in Sri Lanka. He was regarded as the most learned man in the verses of the Canon (gatha) and he also translated the 4^th and the 5^th chapter of Sutta-nipata, published under the title The Silent Sages of Old.