Your favourite contemporary teachers

[Bonsai Doug]

Ajahn Brahm
Sogyal Rinpoche
Pema Chödrön
HH Dalai Lama

[Viscid]

Master Sheng-Yen
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Chah
Chögyam Trungpa
Nanavira Thera
Buddhadasa
Bhante G
Ajahn Sucitto and Sujato

[shjohnk]

Ajahn Brahm - Drew me to Theravada, if everyone took his advice the world'd be a better place (cue John Lennon..)

Ajahn Chah: No Chah, No Brahm (or Sumedho, Pasanno, Sucitto...you get my drift!)

Bhikkhu Samahita : Love his 'Dhamma drops from Ceylon' - Simply presented and very powerful. If you haven't yet, check out http://what-buddha-said.net

Many others! Thank you to the entire Noble Sangha

Oh and I agree with Ben that we must add Gotama Buddha to our list - He'll always be contemporary!!!! And without him, Dukkha would hold sway over all

[Saijun]

Hello friends,

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Ajahn Thanissaro. So, I'll cast my vote for him as my favorite Theravadin teacher, followed closely by Ajahn Sumedho and Ajahn Brahm.

Metta and Anjali,

Saijun

[Vepacitta]

A couple of posters (including moi), mentioned the Ven. Thanissaro.

V.

[Saijun]

A couple of posters (including moi), mentioned the Ven. Thanissaro.

V.

Hello Vepacitta,

My sincerest apologies to you and the others for missing those postings the first time through. Thank you for pointing them out to me.

Metta and Anjali,

Saijun

[tiltbillings]

This deserves a bump up.

[thaijeppe]

Hi

Ajahn Mun
Ajahn Maha Bowa
Ajahn Chah
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Nanananda
Ajahn Sumedho
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Ajahn Passano
Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw

Jeppe

[Sanghamitta]

Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn Buddhadasa
Stephen Batchelor
Martine Batchelor.

[carlosm]

Thanissaro Bhikkhu: Because his dharma talks are amazing compelling, setting me in the path, not only for right concentration & mindfulness.
Bhikkhu Bodhi: His knowledge about the buddha's teachings and the pali cannon, he got me really interested in the suttas and the search for truth in the pali canon.

[Zom]

1) Ven. Ajahn Jayasaro - for his sincerity, for his skill to explain Dhamma via his personal understanding and practice (and not just by learning commentaries, suttas, ect., and repeating what is said there).

2) Ven. Bodhi Bhikkhu - for his learning, for his translations, and for the middle-way approach to theravada texts.

[befriend]

munindra
dipa ma
john daido loori (zen)
ajahn chah
chas dicapua

[Alobha]

Too many to list but i'd specially like to mention:

Bhikku Gavesako
Bhikku Pesala
Bhikku Samahita

Thanks for hanging around here!

[cooran]

Bhikkhu Bodhi
Bhikkhu Pesala
Patrick Kearney
Sujin Boriharnwanaket
Satya Narayan Goenka

[farmer]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ajahn Succito.

I've never met him, but I've found a lot of useful perspective in his writing and dhamma talks. He strikes me as having deep, empathetic insight into individual and interpersonal psychology and a talent for connecting those insights with the concepts the Buddha used to analyze the mind. His book "Kamma and the end of Kamma" helped me see family life as an opportunity for, rather than a distraction from, practice. It improved my marriage, helped me grow up a little, and best of all, it is free:

http://www.forestsangha.org/index.php?o ... hn-sucitto

Ajahn Succito talks quite a bit about the frustrations and frictions that go with living in a monastic community -- good medicine for anybody who sees monastic life as a way to escape the dukkha inevitable in living with other people.

[mikenz66]

The ones I have personal access to.


Mike

[bodom]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Ajahn Succito

I did.

I really enjoyed his book Turning the Wheel of Truth and enjoy listening to his online talks.

Turning the Wheel of Truth
http://www.amazon.com/Turning-Wheel-Tru ... 159030764X

[Cittasanto]

Well besides the Monastics who frequent here, who are invaluable members, I would include (and have added two member monastics I feel deserve special note)
Sitagu Sayadaw
Ajahn Liam
Ajahn Munindo
Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn Vajiro
Ajahn Ghandhasilo
Venerable Pasala
Venerable Bhikshu Hufieng (hope the spelling is correct)
Venerable Analayo
Michael Kewley
and last but not least Greagory Krahmer.

I could continue, but the list would be just people I liked then.

Except for Venerable Analayo I have met each of these teachers, and whether they know it or not have given me fine examples, even if I havn't lived up to their examples. and those who are underlined have changed my opinion in a big way, even if they hadn't done so directly.

They are also not necessarily in order of how much I like them but Vassa/when I met them in person.

[Goofaholix]

Sayadaw U Teganiya
Ajahn Viradhammo
Ajahn Jayasaro
Stephen Batchelor
Shaila Catherine
Stephen Armstrong

... and if I were to add some I haven't met, or who have passed away...
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Thanissaro
Charlotte Joko Beck
Shunryu Suzuki

[Kokoro]

For me it would be:

Ajahn Brahmavamso
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Punnadhammo
Ajahn Brahmali
Bhikkhu Samahita