Ajahn Sundara
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Ajahn Sundara (born 1946) is a French-born Buddhist sīladhārā in the tradition established by Ajahn Sumedho.[1]
Life
She studied contemporary dance and worked as a dancer and dance teacher until her early thirties when she had the opportunity to meet Ajahn Sumedho in England and to attend one of his Dhamma talks and then a retreat.[2] She was one of the first four women ordained by Ajahn Sumedho in 1979 as an anagārikā (an eight-precept novice) and in 1983 as a ten-precept sīladhārā.[3][4] After living at Chithurst Buddhist Monastery in England, Ajahn Sundara moved in 1984 to Amaravati Buddhist Monastery and was instrumental in founding the nuns' community there.[5] She went to Thailand in the mid-1990s, where she spent more than two years, primarily on retreat at forest monasteries. She has been teaching and leading retreats in Europe and North America for many years.[6] She currently resides at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, whose history and relevance to women in Buddhism she has chronicled in the book chapter "The Theravada Sangha Goes West: The Story of Amaravati".[7]
Publications
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See also
- Thai Forest Tradition
- Ajahn Chah
- Ajahn Sumedho
- Ajahn Candasiri
- Chithurst Buddhist Monastery
- Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
References
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External links
- Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
- Audio recordings of 19 Dharma talks in English on the Dharma Seed library
- Discipline et Liberté a 2011 interview on the TV show Sagesse Boudhiste on France 2 retrieved from the French on-line magazine Bouddhisme au Feminin
- Effort Juste a 2013 interview on the TV show Sagesse Boudhiste on France 2 retrieved from the French on-line magazine Bouddhisme au Feminin
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- 1946 births
- Living people
- French scholars of Buddhism
- Buddhist writers
- Converts to Buddhism
- French expatriates in Thailand
- Theravada Buddhist monks
- Thai Forest Tradition nuns
- French Buddhist nuns
- 21st-century French nuns
- French Theravada Buddhists
- 20th-century Buddhist nuns
- 21st-century Buddhist nuns
- 20th-century French women