
Australian Monk Takes On The Mammoth Task To Bring Buddha’s Discourses Into One Place
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) — A former musician turned Buddhist monk, Bhante Sujato, an Australian, has taken up a mammoth task to translate and publish thousands of Buddhist texts known as Sutta (discourses of the Buddha) into many languages. Accompanied by Sri Lankan Kandyan dancers and drummers, he recently launched an Internet portal 'Sutta Central' to make the Buddha's teachings available to the world free of charge. The word Sutta derived from the ancient Indian