Ajahn Sundara

Ajahn Sundara is a French-born ordained monastic in the Buddhist Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. After studying and teaching dance in England and in France, she spent part of her early thirties working as contemporary dancer and teacher. Ajahn Sundara met Ajahn Sumedho in England, 1978 while attending one of his dhamma talks and then a retreat.cite web
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work=Barre Center for Buddhist Studies] She was one of the first four women ordained by Ajahn Sumedho, taking Siladhara ordination and Going Forth as a 10 precept nun in 1983.cite web
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work=dhammatalks.org] Ajahn Sundara lived at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery (in England) and was instrumental in founding the nuns' community there. She went to Thailand in the mid-1990s, where she spent more than two years, primarily on retreat at forest monasteries. She has worked continuously to establish training communities for other women wishing to take ordination. In the years following her practice in Thailand, Ajahn Sundara has travelled to teach and lead retreats in the United States and Europe. She currently resides at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.

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* [http://www.saranaloka.org Saranaloka Foundation]