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Nyanaponika Nyanatiloka Bhikkhu Bodhi Ńānamoli

Nyanaponika and Nyanatiloka were in a prison camp together in WW2.

Ńānamoli was an Intelligence Officer

Somebody told me Bhikkhu Bodhi didn't believe in reincarnation.

I really have no idea.

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Autonomousdrone

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If we suspend our own predilections for the moment and instead go directly to our sources, we come upon the indisputable fact that the Buddha himself taught rebirth and taught it as a basic tenet of his teaching. https://www.vipassana.com/resources/bodhi/dhamma_without_rebirth.html

Nanamoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%91%C4%81%E1%B9%87amoli_Bhikkhu?wprov=sfti1

When World War II broke out in 1939, the British Government had all German males resident in their colonies consigned to concentration camps, suspecting them to be German spies. Nyanaponika's and Nyanatiloka's internment was first at Diyatalawa Army Cantonment in Sri Lanka, and later at Dehra Dun in northern India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyanaponika_Thera?wprov=sfti1#Move_to_Sri_Lanka_and_imprisonment

AlexCoventry

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Bhikkhu Bodhi seems to believe in post-mortem rebirth in this document.

WHAT CONTINUES FROM ONE LIFE TO ANOTHER

The physical organism - the body - and the mental process - the stream of cittas - occur in close interconnection. The body provides the physical basis for the stream of cittas and the mental process rests upon the body as its instrument or basis. When death comes, the body can no longer function as the physical support for consciousness. However, when the body breaks up at death, the succession of cittas does not draw to an end. In the mind of the dying person there takes place a final thought - moment called the "death consciousness", which signals the complete end of the life. Then, following the death consciousness, there arises the first citta of the next life which springs up with the newly formed physical organism as its basis. The first citta of the new life continues the stream of consciousness which has passed out of the deceased body. The stream of consciousness is not a single entity, but a process, and the process continues. When the stream of cittas passes on to the next life it carries the storage of impressions along with it.