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Bhikkhu Analayo

Theravada & Insight · Early Buddhist studies

German-born scholar-monk and researcher of early Buddhist texts, teaching through pre-recorded lectures rather than public appearances.

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Bhikkhu Analayo

Bhikkhu Analayo is a scholar-monk and emeritus professor at the University of Hamburg, associated with the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies in Massachusetts, known for close textual research into the earliest recorded Buddhist teachings, particularly the Satipatthana Sutta. His teaching style favours rigorous, source-based study over charismatic presence.

He teaches almost exclusively through pre-recorded video lectures in online programmes such as Satipatthana Meditation and Brahmaviharas & Emptiness, and is explicitly not available for talks or public events; his large talk archive is otherwise distributed through Dharma Seed.

“Mindfulness itself has a healing property.”
Bhikkhu Analayo
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Where Bhikkhu Analayo has taught.

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Talks & videos

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Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.

72 min
Talk

Bhikkhu Analayo - Mindfulness According to Early Buddhist Sources

A close textual reading of what mindfulness meant in the earliest Buddhist sources.

376 min
Talk

Bhikkhu Anālayo | A meditator's life of the Buddha | day retreat | September 2018

A scholar-monk's reading of the Buddha's life through the lens of a practising meditator.

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