Ghosananda, Maha

Ghosananda, Maha
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Somdet Phra Maha Ghosananda 
      Cambodian Buddhist patriarch

born 1929? , Takeo province, Cambodia, French Indochina

died March 12, 2007 , Northampton, Mass.
devoted his life to the search for peace, especially for reconciliation and peaceful coexistence in his homeland after the 1979 overthrow of the brutal Khmer Rouge. Ghosananda was initiated into the Cambodian Buddhist Order in 1943 and in 1988 was elected supreme patriarch by his fellow monks. In the late 1980s a Buddhist temple in Leverett, Mass., invited him to settle in New England, though he continued to travel extensively. Ghosananda was a four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize for Peace and was awarded the 1998 Niwano Peace Foundation prize. His book Step by Step: Meditations on Wisdom and Compassion was published in 1992.

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