Venerable Dhammaidpa

Venerable Dhammadipa was born in Czechoslovakia and is a world-renowned meditation master. He is a learned scholar of Buddhism as well as Sanskrit, Pali, and Chinese philosophy. He has been writing and translating Buddhist text into French and Czech and has conducted meditation retreats on Samantha and Vipassana methods. A Chinese biography says that the Venerable went to Myanmar to practise meditation with the contemporary meditation master Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw and was considered by the Sayadaw the very first Western disciple who is qualified to teach meditation.