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Author: khemarato

_authors/abhayagiri.md

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ title: "Abhayagiri Monastery"
 
 Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, in Redwood Valley California, was the first monastery in the United States to be established by followers of Ajahn Chah, a respected master of the Thai Forest Tradition.
 
-In 1988, lay disciples of Ajahn Chah's student [Ajahn Sumedho]({% link _authors/sumedho.md %}) formed the Sanghapāla Foundation with the mission of creating a branch monastery in the lineage of Ajahn Chah. In 1990, [Ajahn Amaro]({% link _authors/amaro.md %}) accompanied Ajahn Sumedho to California and became the central teacher for the Californians.
+In 1988, lay disciples of Ajahn Chah's student [Ajahn Sumedho](/authors/sumedho) formed the Sanghapāla Foundation with the mission of creating a branch monastery in the lineage of Ajahn Chah. In 1990, [Ajahn Amaro](/authors/amaro) accompanied Ajahn Sumedho to California and became the central teacher for the Californians.
 
 Efforts to establish a California monastery moved slowly until 1995, when Venerable Master Hsüan Hua, the founding abbot of [The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (CTTB)](http://www.cttbusa.org/), approached his death. He instructed his students to give Ajahn Chah’s disciples 120 acres of CTTB-owned forested property in Redwood Valley. Master Hua had made a point of stating that it had been his life’s dream to bring the northern and southern traditions of Buddhism together again. His open-hearted offering enabled the communities (just 15 miles apart) to be physically close and to relate to each other with an atmosphere of mutual respect and harmony.
 
-Venerable [Ajahn Pasanno]({% link _authors/pasanno.md %}) and Venerable Ajahn Amaro guided the monastery as co-abbots starting in 1996. In 2010, Ajahn Amaro accepted an invitation to serve as abbot of [Amaravati Buddhist Monastery]({% link _publishers/amaravati.md %}) in England, leaving Ajahn Pasanno to lead the community for the next eight years. In the spring of 2018, Ajahn Pasanno stepped back from his role of abbot to enter a year-long retreat, after which he returned to Abhayagiri as its Guiding Elder. The monastery is now under the leadership of co-abbots Ajahn Karuṇadhammo and Ajahn Ñāniko.
+Venerable [Ajahn Pasanno](/authors/pasanno) and Venerable Ajahn Amaro guided the monastery as co-abbots starting in 1996. In 2010, Ajahn Amaro accepted an invitation to serve as abbot of [Amaravati Buddhist Monastery](/publishers/amaravati) in England, leaving Ajahn Pasanno to lead the community for the next eight years. In the spring of 2018, Ajahn Pasanno stepped back from his role of abbot to enter a year-long retreat, after which he returned to Abhayagiri as its Guiding Elder. The monastery is now under the leadership of co-abbots Ajahn Karuṇadhammo and Ajahn Ñāniko.
 
 *~ From [Abhayagiri's website](https://www.abhayagiri.org/home/)*

_authors/amaro.md

@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 title: "Ajahn Amaro"
 ---
 
-Born **J. C. Horner** (cousin of [I. B. Horner]({% link _authors/horner.md %})) in 1956, Ajahn Amaro was ordained in Thailand in 1979, leaving just two years later to help [Ajahn Sumedho]({% link _authors/sumedho.md %}) establish Chithurst Monastery. In the early 1990s, Ajahn Amaro began making regular trips to California, where he eventually founded [Abhayagiri Monastery]({% link _authors/abhayagiri.md %}) with [Ajahn Pasanno]({% link _authors/pasanno.md %}). In 2010, Ajahn Amaro left California and returned to England to take over leadership of [Amaravati Monastery]({% link _publishers/amaravati.md %}), where he remains. You can find all his books on [the Amaravati website](https://www.amaravati.org/book-authors/ajahn-amaro/){:target="_blank"}.
+Born **J. C. Horner** (cousin of [I. B. Horner](/authors/horner)) in 1956, Ajahn Amaro was ordained in Thailand in 1979, leaving just two years later to help [Ajahn Sumedho](/authors/sumedho) establish Chithurst Monastery. In the early 1990s, Ajahn Amaro began making regular trips to California, where he eventually founded [Abhayagiri Monastery](/authors/abhayagiri) with [Ajahn Pasanno](/authors/pasanno). In 2010, Ajahn Amaro left California and returned to England to take over leadership of [Amaravati Monastery](/publishers/amaravati), where he remains. You can find all his books on [the Amaravati website](https://www.amaravati.org/book-authors/ajahn-amaro/){:target="_blank"}.
 
 _~ Adapted from [the Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajahn_Amaro){:target="_blank"}_

_authors/analayo.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "Bhikkhu Anālayo"
 ---
 
-Born in Germany in 1962 and ordained (for [the second time](https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/article/life-of-a-meditator-part-1-an-interview-with-bhikkhu-analayo/)) in Sri Lanka in 1995, Bhikkhu Anālayo arrived too late to study with his inspiration—[Bhante Nyanaponika Thera]({% link _authors/nyanaponika.md %})—but stuck around anyway to study under a different Western monk: a certain "[Bhikkhu Bodhi]({% link _authors/bodhi.md %})."
+Born in Germany in 1962 and ordained (for [the second time](https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/article/life-of-a-meditator-part-1-an-interview-with-bhikkhu-analayo/)) in Sri Lanka in 1995, Bhikkhu Anālayo arrived too late to study with his inspiration—[Bhante Nyanaponika Thera](/authors/nyanaponika)—but stuck around anyway to study under a different Western monk: a certain "[Bhikkhu Bodhi](/authors/bodhi)."
 
 In 2000, still studying in Sri Lanka, Bhikkhu Anālayo received a PhD in the _Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta_. He became interested in the Northern parallels to the Pāli Canon and quickly picked up Sanskrit, ancient Chinese, and Tibetan, publishing _Perspectives on Satipaṭṭhāna_ in 2013.
 

_authors/appleton.md

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 title: "Naomi Appleton"
 ---
 
-An eminent scholar of {% include tag-link.html text="Jātaka and Avadāna" tag="rebirth-stories" %} literature.
+An eminent scholar of [Jātaka and Avadāna](/tags/rebirth-stories) literature.

_authors/bodhi.md

@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ Bhikkhu Bodhi is an American Buddhist monk from New York City. Born in Brooklyn
 
 After completing his university studies, he immediately came to Sri Lanka where he received novice ordination in 1972 and full ordination in 1973, both under the late [Ven. Ananda Maitreya](http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/bam.html){:target="_blank"}, the leading Sri Lankan scholar-monk at the time.
 
-He was appointed editor of the [Buddhist Publication Society]({% link _publishers/bps.md %}) (in Sri Lanka) in 1984 and its president in 1988.
+He was appointed editor of the [Buddhist Publication Society](/publishers/bps) (in Sri Lanka) in 1984 and its president in 1988.
 
-Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor, including  *the Majjhima Nikaya*  (co-translated with Ven. Bhikkhu Nanamoli) (1995), *The Connected Discourses of the Buddha* (2000), and [*In the Buddha’s Words*]({% link _content/monographs/in-the-buddhas-words_bodhi.md %}) (2005).
+Ven. Bodhi has many important publications to his credit, either as author, translator, or editor, including  *the Majjhima Nikaya*  (co-translated with Ven. Bhikkhu Nanamoli) (1995), *The Connected Discourses of the Buddha* (2000), and [*In the Buddha’s Words*](/content/monographs/in-the-buddhas-words_bodhi) (2005).
 
-In May 2000 he gave [the keynote address]({% link _content/booklets/buddha-and-his-dhamma_bodhi.md %}) at the United Nations at its first official celebration of Vesak. He returned to the U.S. in 2002 and currently resides at [Chuang Yen Monastery](https://www.baus.org/){:target="_blank"} and teaches there and at [Bodhi Monastery](https://bodhimonastery.org/){:target="_blank"}.
+In May 2000 he gave [the keynote address](/content/booklets/buddha-and-his-dhamma_bodhi) at the United Nations at its first official celebration of Vesak. He returned to the U.S. in 2002 and currently resides at [Chuang Yen Monastery](https://www.baus.org/){:target="_blank"} and teaches there and at [Bodhi Monastery](https://bodhimonastery.org/){:target="_blank"}.
 
 He is also the chairman of the [Yin Shun Foundation](https://yinshun.org/){:target="_blank"} and [Buddhist Global Relief](https://www.buddhistglobalrelief.org/){:target="_blank" ga-event-value="0.25"}.
 

_authors/candasiri.md

@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 title: "Ajahn Candasiri"
 ---
 
-Ajahn Candasiri (b. 1947 in Edinburgh) ordained at [Amaravati]({% link _publishers/amaravati.md %}) in 1979 and was one of the original group of four women to establish the nun's community at the Chithurst Buddhist Monastery. These days, she spends most of her time at Milntuim Hermitage in her native Scotland.
+Ajahn Candasiri (b. 1947 in Edinburgh) ordained at [Amaravati](/publishers/amaravati) in 1979 and was one of the original group of four women to establish the nun's community at the Chithurst Buddhist Monastery. These days, she spends most of her time at Milntuim Hermitage in her native Scotland.
 

_authors/dalai-lama.md

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 title: "H. H. the 14th Dalai Lama"
 ---
 
-The spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and the most famous Buddhist alive today. For a brief explainer, see [this essay by Bhante Dhammika]({% link _content/essays/dalai-lama_dhammika.md %}).
+The spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and the most famous Buddhist alive today. For a brief explainer, see [this essay by Bhante Dhammika](/content/essays/dalai-lama_dhammika).

_authors/dick.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 title: "Ajahn Dick Sīlaratano"
 ---
 
-Abbot of Forest Dhamma Monastery in the mountains of southwestern Virginia, Ajahn Dick was a longtime student of, and attendant to, [Luangta Maha Bua]({% link _authors/boowa.md %}).
+Abbot of Forest Dhamma Monastery in the mountains of southwestern Virginia, Ajahn Dick was a longtime student of, and attendant to, [Luangta Maha Bua](/authors/boowa).
 
 _~ From [his bio on the Forest Dhamma website](https://forestdhamma.org/about/ajaan-dick-silaratano/)_
 

_authors/gunaratana.md

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 title: "Bhante Gunaratana"
 ---
 
-Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (or "Bhante G" as his students call him) is a Sri Lankan monk born in 1927 who has lived and taught in the United States since 1968. He is the founder of Bhavana Society, a donation-based monastery and retreat center in West Virginia, and is the author of the highly acclaimed meditation manual, [_Mindfulness in Plain English_]({% link _content/monographs/mindfulness-in-plain-english_gunaratana.md %}).
+Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (or "Bhante G" as his students call him) is a Sri Lankan monk born in 1927 who has lived and taught in the United States since 1968. He is the founder of Bhavana Society, a donation-based monastery and retreat center in West Virginia, and is the author of the highly acclaimed meditation manual, [_Mindfulness in Plain English_](/content/monographs/mindfulness-in-plain-english_gunaratana).

_authors/horner.md

@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 title: "I. B. Horner"
 ---
 
-Isaline Blew Horner OBE was a leading scholar of Pāli literature in English and the president of the [Pāli Text Society]({% link _publishers/pts.md %}) from 1959 until her death in 1981.
+Isaline Blew Horner OBE was a leading scholar of Pāli literature in English and the president of the [Pāli Text Society](/publishers/pts) from 1959 until her death in 1981.
 
 _Adapted from [the Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaline_Blew_Horner){:target="_blank"}_