Ajahn Anandabodhi

Ajahn Anandabodhi was born in Wales in 1968. First coming across the Four Noble Truths while still at school, a confidence in the Buddha's teaching was sparked in her heart. She trained in catering and also worked in environmental conservation, all the while looking for spiritual direction.

She first visited Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in 1990, and experienced a deep sense of 'coming home'. After a period of doubt and inner struggle, she arrived at Amaravati with all her worldly goods, in 1992, and began the anagarika training later that year. In 1995, she was given siladhara ordination, with Ajahn Sumedho as her preceptor. In 2008 she received the "Outstanding Woman In Buddhism Award".

Having spent most of her monastic life in Chithurst and Amaravati monasteries in England, she now resides at Aloka Vihara in San Francisco; offering teachings at the vihara and in the wider Bay Area, as well as other parts of the US. Ajahn Anandabodhi deeply values this opportunity to live as a Buddhist nun, and is grateful to be able to share it with others. Her wish is to see more opportunities for women to Go Forth as nuns and to flourish in the Buddha's Path of awakening.

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