Ajahn Sundara
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| Born | 1946 (age 77–78) |
| Nationality | French |
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| Religion | Buddhism |
| Order | Sīladhārā |
| School | Theravāda |
| Lineage | Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah |
| Ordination | 1983 (41 years ago) |
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| Teacher | Ajahn Sumedho |
| Based in | Amaravati Buddhist Monastery |
| Website | amaravati |
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Ajahn Sundara (born 1946) is a French-born Buddhist sīladhārā in the tradition established by Ajahn Sumedho.[1]
Life
[edit]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
[edit]- Gates, Barbara; Gates, Wes, eds. (2008), "On Fearlessness and Fear: a conversation with Tenzin Palmo, Ajahn Sundara, Ajahn Jitindriya and Yvonne Rand" (Paperback), 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, and Uncommon Insight, Boston: Wisdom Publications, pp. 192–198, ISBN 978-0861715510
- Sundara, Ajahn; Candasiri, Ajahn (2011), Friends on the Path, Amaravati Publications, ISBN 978-1-870205-24-5
- Sundara, Ajahn; Candasiri, Ajahn; Metta, Ajahn (2013), The Body, Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, ISBN 978-1-870205-72-6
- Sundara, Ajahn (2014), Walking the World
- Sundara, Ajahn (2016), Seeds of Dhamma, Amaravati Publications, pp. 1–94, ISBN 978-1-78432-046-1
- Sundara, Ajahn (2017), Paccuppanna: The Present Moment, Amaravati Publications, pp. 1–78, ISBN 978-1-78432-079-9
See also
[edit]- Thai Forest Tradition
- Ajahn Chah
- Ajahn Sumedho
- Ajahn Candasiri
- Chithurst Buddhist Monastery
- Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
References
[edit]- ^ "Female Monastic Community". Amaravati Buddhist Monastery. Retrieved 2018-09-14.
- ^ "It Can be Very Simple: An interview with Ajahn Sundara". Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. Archived from the original on 14 October 2006. Retrieved 2006-09-16.
- ^ "Biography". dhammatalks.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2006-05-05. Retrieved 2006-09-16.
- ^ "British Museum Special Event - Following the Buddhist path: insights on the nature of mind". 2018-09-22. Retrieved 2018-09-19.
- ^ Angell, Jane (2006). "Women in Brown: a short history of the order of sīladharā, nuns of the English Forest Sangha, Part Two". Buddhist Studies Review. 23 (2). doi:10.1558/bsrv.2006.23.2.221. ISSN 1747-9681.
- ^ Sundara, Ajahn (February 4, 2011). "For Intérieure / 10-11". France Culture (Interview). Interviewed by Olivier Germain-Thomas. Paris.
- ^ Chodron, Thubten, ed. (1999). "The Theravada Sangha Goes West: The Story of Amaravati" (Paperback). Blossoms of the Dharma: Living as a Buddhist Nun. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books. pp. 61–74. ISBN 9781556433252.
External links
[edit]- 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