# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henepola-gunaratana
# Generated: 2026-08-15T20:18:45.229Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henepola-gunaratana"
name: "Henepola Gunaratana"
slug: "henepola-gunaratana"
description: "Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk. He is affectionately known as Bhante G. Bhante Gunaratana is currently the abbot of the Bhavana Society, a monastery and meditation retreat center that he founded in High View, West Virginia, in 1985. He is the author of the best-selling meditation guide Mindfulness in Plain English (1992)."
tagline: "Sri Lankan Buddhist monk"
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gender: "male"
birthDate: "1927-12-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             2.290076335877862
  historical:           10.10882266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump