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TeachersTeachers at Jhana Grove Meditation Center are the senior monks and nuns from Bodhinyana and Dhammasara monasteries. On occations famous visiting monsatics may teach/mentor retreatants at the centre. While our 'home' Sangha practices and teaches in the Thai Forrest tradtion of Theravada Buddhism, other tradtions using the facilities these will normally have their own teachers. |
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Ajahn BrahmavamsoAjahn Brahmavamso was born in London in 1951. He regarded himself a Buddhist at the age of 17 through his reading of Buddhist books while still at school. His interest in Buddhism and meditation flourished while studying Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. After completing his degree and teaching for a year, he traveled to Thailand to become a monk.He was ordained in Bangkok at the age of 23 by the Abbot of Wat Saket. He subsequently spent 9 years studying and training in the forest meditation tradition of the Venerable Ajahn Chah. In 1983, he was asked to assist in the establishing of a forest monastery near Perth, Western Australia. Ajahn Brahm now is the Abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery and the Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. |
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Ajahn VayamaThe abbess of Dhammasara Nuns Monastery is Ajahn Vayama, an Australian Ten Precept nun, who was ordained in Shi Lanka in 1985, and who spent the first ten years of her monastic life there. She afterwards spent a year with the community of Venerable Ajahn Sumedho, a disciple of Ajahn Chah, at Amaravati Monastery in England, before returning to live in Australia. In 1998 the Buddhist Society of Western Australia invited her to take up the position of Abbess of Dhammasara Nuns Monastery. She has been living on the land since December 1998. The life of the monastery, the daily offering of the meal by devoted lay supporters, and teaching of the Dhamma by Ajahn Vayama, has been continuing since that time. |
We are located at 283 Kingsbury Drive, Serpentine 6125, Serpentine, Western Australia Click here for Map
A pupose-built meditation retreat centre located in the forrested hills (60km) from Perth in Western Australia. The centre can accomodate up to 60 retreatants. More...
Jhana Grove: +61(0)8 95253314
Monastery : +61(0)8 95252420
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We are located at 283 Kingsbury Drive, Serpentine 6125, Serpentine, Western Australia Click here for Map
Contact
Jhana Grove: +61(0)8 95253314
Monastery : +61(0)8 95252420
Jhana Grove does not have e-mail