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Sāmanera Bodhesako (Robert Smith known also as Ven. Vinayadhara and Ven. Ñāṇasuci in his early monastic life) was an American Buddhist monk. Born in Detroit Michigan in 1939 he studied at the University of Iowa specializing in Literature and Creative Writing. He embraced Buddhism in 1966 in India where he was ordained at the Bengal Buddhist Association of Calcutta and spent several years as a monk in Island Hermitage and elsewhere in Sri Lanka.
