Bhikkhu Cintita
Ashin အရှင် Cintita စိန္တိတ | |
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| Personal | |
| Born | John David Dinsmore 1949 |
| Religion | Buddhism |
| Nationality | American |
| Parents |
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| School | Theravāda |
| Alma mater | California State University, Sonoma; University of California at San Diego (PhD in Linguistics); University of Kansas (MS in Computer Science) |
| Other names | Ashin Cintita, Bhikkhu Cintita Dinsmore,[1] Bhante Cintita |
| Occupation | Monk |
| Order | Shwekyin Nikāya |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Austin, Texas |
| Initiation | 2009 Sagaing, Sagaing, Myanmar by Ashin Ñāṇissara |
| Ordination | 2009 (15 years ago) |
| Website | http://bhikkhucintita.wordpress.com/ |
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The Venerable Bhikkhu Cintita (ဘိက္ခုစိန္တိတ; secular name: John David Dinsmore; born 1949 in San Francisco, California) is an American Buddhist monk, ordained in Burma and currently teaching in the cities of Minneapolis, Minnesota and Austin, Texas.
Life[edit]
In 1949 Dinsmore was born in San Francisco, California, to David Dinsmore and Alma Morris, half a block from what is now the San Francisco Zen Center. He was raised, along with his three siblings, in San Francisco, El Cerito, and Larkspur, California. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, as a mathematics major during college but dropped out and traveled to Europe. In 1975 he earned his B.A. in Linguistics at California State University, Sonoma. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in linguistics from University of California, San Diego.
In 1979 Dinsmore was a Research Fellow in Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft in Bielefeld in Germany where he began meditation practice. Soon after he moved back to the United States he married his long-time girlfriend Sarah Perkins and had his first daughter, Kymrie Dinsmore.
Before ordaining Dinsmore was a successful academic and professor, holding positions at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Kansas, and Southern Illinois University. He had two other children, Warren Dinsmore and Alma Dinsmore, with Sarah before they divorced. He was also the CEO of a Lithuanian software company.
In 2002 Dinsmore began Buddhist monastic training at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California and was later ordained Kōjin Hōsen (“Vast Compassion, Free River” in Japanese). From 2003 to 2009 he was a priest at the Austin Zen Center.[2]
In 2009 Dinsmore traveled to Burma and attended Sitagu International Buddhist Academy in Sagaing where he taught English and studied Buddhism. He was reordained as a Theravada bhikkhu by Sitagu Sayadaw. His ordination name, Cintita, means "good thinker" in Pāli.
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