To the Head of the Funeral Organizing Committee and Dharma Disciples of the late Most Venerable Professor Bhikshu Satyapala, Former Head of Department of Buddhist Studies and Professor of Pāli Faculty, University of Delhi, India:
We are former student monks and nuns of the University of Delhi residing in the United States, and have just learned of the demise of the Most Venerable Master Mahā Thero from a complication of a chronic sickness on May 4, 2021 in Abhay Institute of Medical Science, Buddhagaya, India. We wish to offer our sympathy to his family and to express our deep gratitude for all of his Dharma teachings.
The respected Venerable Master will be mourned by monks, nuns, and fellow Buddhists in India and abroad. This is a great loss for Dharma disciples and Indian Buddhism, as well as for all the clergy at Delhi University who were former students of the Venerable Professor. His great contributions to education, Buddhism and society are well recognized by many Buddhist scholar missionaries, both internationally and in India.
Teacher returned to the realm of Trueness
Lotus flowers are sent off with compassion and mourning
On behalf of the former student monks and nuns of Delhi University who are residing in the United States, and the nuns, as well as Buddhist followers, of Huong Sen Temple in Perris, California, we would like to forward to the Funeral Home our respectful prayers to the late Professor Bhikshu Satyapala. May you rest in Nirvana and the future return to the Saha world for the sake of sentient beings.
On this occasion, we would like to extend our condolences to the late Professor Bhikshu Satyapala’s dharma disciples, family and friends for this great loss.
We send our prayers:
Namo the Supreme Blissful Nirvana Land.
Sad Afternoon, May 4, 2021
Bowing three times,
The Most Venerable Bhikshu Thái Siêu
Bhikshu Hạnh Đức
Bhikshu Pháp Tánh
Bhikshu Pháp Trí
Bhikshu Pháp Uyển
Bhikshuni Minh Huệ
Bhikshuni Giới Hương
Bhikshuni Nguyên Ý
and all former student monks and nuns
of Delhi University residing in the United States.
WELCOME TO HOME PAGE OF PROF. BHIKSHU SATYAPALA
Prof. Bhikshu Satyapala is renowned scholar of Buddhism with specialization in Abhidhamma Philosophy and associated with Department of Buddhist Studies, University of Delhi in the capacity of Professor. After completing the school career, he became monk at the age of 19 under the guidance of the great Vipassanācārya Ven. Rashtrapala Mahathera, the Founder President of Buddha Bharati at Siliguri (West Bengal) and Founder President of the International Meditation Centre at Buddha Gaya (Bihar). His religious and academic journey was directed by his drive and concern for Buddhist ideals of compassion and wisdom. His planning, vision and missionary zeal rooted in traditional and academic training of Pāli and Buddhist Studies has completed almost four decades. During the period, he earned his academic degrees and received training in Buddhist learning from various centers of Higher Buddhist Studies at Kolkata (W.B.), Bodhgaya, Nalanda, and Darbhanga (Bihar). He received M.Phil. and Ph.D. Degree in Buddhist Studies from the University of Delhi, in the year 1981 and 1987 respectively.
His scholarly contributions in the field of Påli Language, Grammar and Literature, Buddhist Philosophy, Abhidhamma Philosophy and Buddhist Psychology as well as Theravada Buddhist Eschatology had been highly acclaimed. Ever since 1981, he is an excellent teacher, research guide, organizer, editor and administrator. Throughout his distinguished teachings career of 29 years of the Department of Buddhist Studies, University of Delhi, he has supervised almost 50 Ph.D. and 66 M.Phil. scholars, including 6 Post Doctoral Research Scholars; published 12 books and more than 80 papers, on the various aspects of Buddhism in English, Hindi and Bengali; organized 9 International and 14 National seminars on various themes of Buddhist Studies; presented more than 50 seminar and conference papers including on Vietnamese Buddhism and edited four journals, including Journal of Buddhist Studies of the Department of Buddhist Studies, University of Delhi.
