Английская Википедия:Ayya Khema

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Шаблон:Infobox religious biography Ayya Khema (August 25, 1923Шаблон:Sfn – November 2, 1997) was a Buddhist teacher noted for providing opportunities for women to practice Buddhism,Шаблон:Sfn founding several centers around the world. In 1987, she helped coordinate the first-ever Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women. Over two dozen books of her transcribed Dhamma talks in English and German have been published. In the last year of her life, she also published her autobiography: I Give You My Life.

Biography

Born as Ilse Kussel in Berlin, Germany in 1923 to Jewish parents.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 1938, her parents escaped from Germany and traveled to China while plans were made for Khema to join two hundred other children emigrating to Glasgow, Scotland.Шаблон:Sfn After two years in Scotland, Khema joined her parents in Shanghai.Шаблон:Sfn With the outbreak of the war, Japan conquered Shanghai and the family was moved into the Shanghai Ghetto in Hongkew where her father died five days before the war ended.Шаблон:Sfn

At age twenty-two, Khema married a man seventeen years her senior named Johannes and they moved to an apartment in the Hongkou District.Шаблон:Sfn In 1947, her first child, a daughter named Irene, was born.Шаблон:Sfn As the People's Liberation Army were on the cusp of taking Shanghai, Khema and her family fled for San Francisco, California, United States.Шаблон:Sfn From San Francisco, Khema moved to Los Angeles and then San Diego where she gave birth to her second child, a son named Jeffrey.Шаблон:Sfn

Soon, Khema began feeling incomplete and investigated various spiritual paths,Шаблон:Sfn an interest her husband didn't share.Шаблон:Sfn This led to their divorce.Шаблон:Sfn Khema moved with her infant son to Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico, to study the philosophy of the Essenes with Professor Edmund Skekely.Шаблон:Sfn There she married her second husband, Gerd.Шаблон:Sfn The whole family soon became vegetarian, a practice Khema continued until her death.Шаблон:Sfn

The three traveled for years, visiting South America, New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, then settling in Sydney, Australia, where Khema began to study with Phra Khantipalo.Шаблон:Sfn

To further her studies, Khema traveled to San Francisco to study Zen at the San Francisco Zen CenterШаблон:Sfn and worked at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center for three months.Шаблон:Sfn She then spent three weeks in Burma where she studied meditation with students of U Ba Khin.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1978, Khema founded the Wat Buddha Dhamma forest monastery in New South Wales and installed Phra Khantipalo as abbot.Шаблон:Sfn

Khema's desire to become a Buddhist nun led her to Thailand where she studied with Tan Ajahn Singtong for three months.Шаблон:Sfn Sri Lanka was her next destination where she met Nyanaponika Thera who introduced her to Narada Maha Thera.Шаблон:Sfn Narada Thera gave her the name "Ayya Khema".Шаблон:Sfn

A 1983 return trip to Sri Lanka, led her to meet her teacher, Ven. Matara Sri Ñānarāma of Nissarana Vanaya, who inspired her to teach jhana meditation.Шаблон:Sfn As it was not possible at the time to organize an ordination ceremony for bhikkhunis in the Theravada tradition, Ayya Khema then received complete monastic ordination at the newly built Hsi Lai Temple, a Chinese Mahayana temple under the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order, in 1988.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Khema was one of the organizers of the first International Conference on Buddhist Women in 1987Шаблон:Sfn which led to the foundation of the Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women.[1]

In 1989, Khema returned to Germany and began teaching at Buddha Haus in Munich.Шаблон:Sfn

According to Ayya Khema's own account, she had been suffering from breast cancer since 1983. In 1993, she underwent a mastectomy operation in Germany. During a five-week recovery period in the hospital she almost died, but her condition was expeditiously stabilized by the medics. In an interview she expressed a positive opinion of that experience.[2]

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Ayya Khema died on November 2, 1997, at Buddha Haus, Uttenbühl (part of the village Oy-Mittelberg) in Germany after fourteen years with breast cancer.Шаблон:Sfn Her ashes are kept in a stupa at Buddha Haus.Шаблон:Sfn

Publications

Bodhi Leaf Publications (BPS)

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  1. ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
  2. ↑ Ayya Khema discussion about death with Ann Hershey part 1 YouTube
    Ayya Khema discussion about death with Ann Hershey part 2 YouTube
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