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Gleaning in Time |
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Francis Story |
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BPS
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GLEANINGS IN TIME
FRANCIS STORY
was born on 3rd August 1910 in Croyden, Surrey, England, and educated at Manor House School, Clapham, and at London University. He commenced his University education as a medical student, but later gave it up for the study of optics. He became a Buddhist by self-conviction at the age of sixteen. He married in 1933, but lost his wife, while, during World War II, he served in India in the Ophthalmological Unit of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
At the end of the war, he decided to devote himself entirely to the study of Buddhism and its literary presentation in the context of Western culture. He spent 22 years in India, Burma and (most of them) in Sri Lanka. During all these years he was engaged in lecturing and literary work in the field of Buddhism; but his creative mind produced also writings such as those collected in this volume. In Sri Lanka he was closely
literary work on Buddhism is available in the three volumes of his "Collected Writings", issued by the Buddhist Publication Society (P.O. Box 61, Kandy, Sri Lanka). The first volume, "The Buddhist Outlook", also contains biographical material. A memorial booklet issued on the occasion of the author's death, can be obtained from the same Society, which may also be approached for reprint permission of material contained in this volume.
Nyanaponika
Forest Hermitage
Kandy, Sri Lanka
January 1976.
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