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Surai Sasai was born on 30 August, 1935 in Sugao (Niimi), Okayama Prefecture, Japan, is a Japanese-born Indian Buddhist monk. Discover Surai Sasai's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?
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30 August |
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Sugao (Niimi), Okayama Prefecture, Japan |
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Japan
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Surai Sasai Height, Weight & Measurements
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Surai Sasai Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Surai Sasai worth at the age of 88 years old? Surai Sasai’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Japan. We have estimated Surai Sasai's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Bhadant Nagarjun Arya Surai Sasai (佐々井 秀嶺), popularly known as Sasai, is a Japanese-born Indian Buddhist monk who later chose India as his home.
He is the president of the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Memorial committee Deekshabhoomi.
Surai Sasai was born in Niimi, Okayama Prefecture, with the lay name Minoru Sasai on 30 August 1935.
He took tonsure as a novice monk at the age of 14 and was given the ordination name Tenjit Surai, "Light of the Sun, beautiful Mountain Peak", by his Tendai teacher Shujuma Yamamoto.
In 1955 he joined the monastic order of the Shingon school and in 1966 he travelled to Thailand to study vipassana.
In Nagpur, he met Wamanrao Godbole, the person who had organized the conversion ceremony for B. R. Ambedkar in 1956.
Sasai claims that when he saw a photograph of B. R. Ambedkar at Godbole's home, he realized that Ambedkar had appeared in his dream.
At first, Nagpur residents considered Surai Sasai very strange, but he became popular after he began to greet them with "Jai Bhim" (victory to Ambedkar) and to build viharas.
Sasai came to India in 1966 and met Nichidatsu Fujii, whom he helped with the building of a peace pagoda at Rajgir.
He fell out with Fuji, however, but he related that on his return journey he was stopped by a vision of a figure resembling Nagarjuna who said, "Go to Nagpur".
In 1987, Sasai was arrested for overstaying his visum but his followers protested against his planned deportation.
A court case to deport him was dismissed and he was granted Indian citizenship, which cost him his Japanese citizenship.
Sasai is one of the main leaders of the campaign to free the Mahabodhi Temple at Bodh Gaya from Hindu control.
As the president of the Bodhisatva Nagarjun Smarak Samstha Va Anusandhan Kendra he supported the excavations at Mansar.
Sasai represented the Buddhists as a member of the National Commission for Minorities from 2003-2006.
Arya Bhadant Surai Sasai is the president of the Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Smarak Samiti Deekshabhoomi (Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Memorial committee Deekshabhoomi), Nagpur.
Sasai has hundreds of thousands of lay followers and hundreds of ordained monk and novice disciples.
His most active disciples are Bhante Bodhi Dhamma (Dhammaji), Prajnasheela Bhikkhu, Ken Bodhi, and Bhikkhu Abhaya Putra.
The first and last were trained as Theravada monk and the others as Mahayana monks.
Bodhi Dhamma works in South India teaching Zen while Prajnasheela works in central India.
Abhaya Putra is the founder of Metta India and trains Theravadin monks and novices of Indian origin in Thailand
