Path Press is a non-profit entity, which handles legal matters and holds the copyrights of all Ven. Ñāṇavīra Thera's writings together with some the writings from others; Path Press Publications is an independent for-profit publisher of books, Ñāṇavīra Thera Dhamma Page, and databases in the Buddhist philosophy, and writings of Ven. Ñāṇavīra Thera and Samanera Bodhesako.
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Most of the editorial work connected with Ñāṇavīra Thera's writings was performed by Sāmanera Bodhesako (Robert Smith), who died in Kathmandu in 1988.
He embraced Buddhism in 1966 in India, where he was ordained at the Bengal Buddhist Association of Calcutta, and spent several years as a monk in Island Hermitage and elsewhere in Sri Lanka.
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Born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1939, he studied at the University of Iowa, specializing in Literature and Creative Writing.