Buddhist Women on a Path of Spiritual Awakening
A Global Mettā Vigil for Myanmar, Ukraine, Sri Lanka & All the World
Please join us for a global Mettā Vigil – Saturday May 21, in Asia – Sunday May 22 Ayyā Medhānandī will lead this Vesak month’s Mettā Vigil. This broadcast is sponsored by Mettā4Myanmar – the 5th of 12 vigils being offered in 2022. We…
At the Altar of Emptiness
Caught in quivering flames of fear too vulnerable to see or hear deafened by blame and loss – I listen again to the Quiet. I stand empty at the altar of emptiness bowing to goodness to wisdom my singular refuge – the heart’s great…
AYYĀ ANURUDDHĀ
Ayyā Anuruddhā, of the United Kingdom, joined the Sati Sārāņīya Hermitage community in May, 2014. After her initial year as a postulant (anagārikā), she began her life as an alms mendicant nun in a sāmaņerī ordination ceremony held on September 13, 2014 with Ayyā…
AYYĀ NIMMALĀ
Ayyā Nimmalā Bhikkhunī, a native Canadian, began her journey into Buddhist monasticism by serving as a steward first at Birken Forest Monastery and later at Tisarana Buddhist Monastery where she was guided by dedicated teachers including Ajahn Viradhammo, Ajahn Sona and Ajahn Kusalo. Ayyā…
Ayyā Medhānandī
Ayyā Medhānandī Bhikkhunī, is the founder and guiding teacher of Sati Sārāņīya Hermitage, a forest monastery for women in the Theravāda tradition. The daughter of Eastern European refugees who emigrated to Montreal after World War II, she began a spiritual quest in childhood that…
~ Dhammapada Verse 54