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Date(s) - Sun, 24 Nov 2024
10:00 am - 11:00 am

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Bodhisaddha Forest Monastery

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Venerable Ajahn Thanissaro (Ajahn Geoff), abbot of Metta Forest Monastery, California, USA, will be visiting us for a short but special visit. There will be a 10:00am Dhamma talk and opportunity to pay respects and see Venerable Ajahn Thanissaro and the Sangha. At 10:30am dana meal offerings for the 9 monks can be made.
There will be no Dhamma session after the meal.

Biography of Venerable Ajahn Thanissaro (Ajahn Geoff)

Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (also known as Ajahn Geoff; born December 28, 1949) is an American Buddhist monk and author. Belonging to the Thai Forest Tradition, he studied for ten years under the forest master Ajahn Fuang Jotiko (himself a student of Ajahn Lee). Since 1993, he has served as abbot of the Metta Forest Monastery in San Diego County, California—the first monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition in the U.S.—which he cofounded with Ajahn Suwat Suvaco.[2]

Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu is perhaps best known for his translations of the Dhammapada and the Sutta Pitaka—almost 1000 suttas in all—provided free of charge on his website “Talks, Writing & Translations of Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu”[3] as well as translations from the dhamma talks of the Thai forest ajahns. He has also authored several dhamma-related works of his own, and has compiled study-guides of his Pali translations.[4]