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Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar. Born Jeffrey Block in Brooklyn, New York, he was ordained in Sri Lanka in 1972. He is one of the foremost translators of the Pali Canon into English, with acclaimed translations of the Majjhima Nikaya, Samyutta Nikaya, and Anguttara Nikaya. He served as president of the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, Sri Lanka. He now lives at Chuang Yen Monastery in New York and is the founder of Buddhist Global Relief, a humanitarian organization.