Phra Nicholas Thanissaro

Phra Nicholas Thanissaro is a Buddhist monk of 24 years standing. With thirty-five years of meditation experience, he is a UK Complementary Medical Association qualified teacher of meditation. Affiliated with the Dhammakaya Foundation, he is also qualified as a school teacher and MBTI practitioner. As a scholar-practitioner, during his time as Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick, he published widely in peer-reviewed journals on the formation of Buddhist identity in teenagers and continues to research the appeal of meditation in the West. He currently lectures in ‘Living Buddhism’ and ‘Religious Individualization’ at Claremont School of Theology, California and Willamette University, Oregon. His latest book, exploring Buddhist diversity through Psychological Type, is entitled ‘The Intuitive Buddhist’.