Ayya Anandabodhi first encountered the Buddha’s teachings in her early teens, igniting a deep interest in the Buddha’s Path of Awakening. She lived and trained as a monastic in the Forest Tradition at Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries in England from 1992 until 2009, when she moved to the US to help open more opportunities for women to live the monastic life. She took full Bhikkhuni Ordination in 2011. Her practice and teaching are guided by early Buddhist scriptures, living in community, and through nature’s pure and immediate Dhamma. Ayya is founder of Parayana Vihara, a monastic community in Port Townsend, WA.
Ayya Anandabodhi explains how taking refuge in the Triple Gem of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha can be seen in light of taking refuge in the mind’s natural capacity for awareness, the teachings on impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self evident in our current bodies and minds, and the wisdom that motivates us to keep practicing in the face of hardship.
