This is PART TWO of Clear Mountain's interview with Bhante Sujāto, co-founder of SuttaCentral.net and abbot of Lokanta Vihara. Watch PART ONE here: https://youtu.be/dJvntE6aw-s
00:00:00 Introduction & Textual Curiosity Across Buddhist Genres
00:16:51 Comparative Studies of the Creation of the Bhikkhuni Order
00:24:59 The Trojan Horse Simile of Picking and Choosing & How to Hold Varrying Views
00:31:51 The Buddha, Bodhisattva, and Arahant Awakenings
00:38:18 The Buddha as Distinct From Arahants?
00:41:08 Maintaining Inter-Tradition Epistemological Humility?
00:47:00 A Buddhist Perspective on Artificial Intelligence - "Start Generating"
01:01:22 What Mendicant Would Grace the Gosinga Sal Tree Grove?
Bhante Sujāto's Biography:
Born in Perth in 1966, Bhante Sujato left a career as a musician to become a Buddhist monk at Wat Nanachat in 1994. Some years later, he returned to Perth to study with Ajahn Brahm at Bodhinyana Monastery, before going on to found Santi Forest Monastery in New South Wales in 2003. In 2005 he, together with Rod Bucknell and John Kelly, founded SuttaCentral which has become the unchallenged juggernaut of Early Buddhist Textual Study. In 2015, seeing the need for a complete, accurate, plain English translation of the Pali texts available entirely for free, he undertook the task, spending nearly three years in isolation and completing the four main Nikāyas in 2018, and the early books of the Khuddaka Nikāya by 2021. In 2019, Bhante Sujato moved to Sydney to establish Lokanta Vihara (the Monastery at the End of the World) to explore what it means to follow the Buddha’s teachings in an era of climate change, globalised consumerism, and political turmoil.
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