He wrote Dictionary of Buddhism; Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines
Nyanatiloka Mahathera (February 19, 1878, Wiesbaden, Germany — May 28, 1957, Colombo, Ceylon), born as Anton Gueth, was one of the earliest westerners in modern times to become a Buddhist monk.[1][2]
LifeNyanatiloka was born in on February 19, 1878 in Wiesbaden, Germany as Anton Walther Florus Gueth.[3]
In 1903, at the age of 25, Nyanatiloka visited Sri Lanka and then proceeded to Burma where he was ordained as a Theravada Buddhist monk. In 1904, he received higher ordination in Burma before returning to Sri Lanka where he studied Pali.[3] In 1905, Nyanaponika stayed with his early mentor, British monastic pioneer Ananda Metteyya.[4] In 1906, he published his first Buddhist work in German, Das Wort des Buddha (The Word of the Buddha, published in English in 1927).[3]
