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Metteyya Brahmana

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Seattle, The United States

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Metteyya Brahmana has been a serious meditator, student, and practitioner of Buddhism for more than 25 years, and first discovered Buddhism in the late 1990s after becoming disillusioned with life as a hedonist and materialist with its associated suffering. The practice of Buddhism had such a profound effect on Metteyya's life that he decided to pursue graduate level Buddhist and Pali language studies, which provided much of the research for this book and his upcoming book, "When the Self Gets in the Way: A deeper exploration of equanimity and sustainable happiness."

Metteyya is a U.C. Berkeley graduate, has an M.A. in Asian and Comparative Studies with an emphasis in Theravada Buddhism from the California Institute of Integral Studies in Sa ...more

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Why God Became a Buddha

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