Ajahn jayasaro biography of michael
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Conversation with Ajahn Jayasaro on YouTube
Bio:
Venerable Ajahn Jayasaro (Shaun Michael Chiverton) was born on the Isle of Wight, England in 1958. After finishing secondary school, he traveled through India on a spiritual search, eventually returning to England in 1978 where he served as an anagārikā in Ajahn Sumedho's community. In November of that, he traveled to Thailand to become a disciple of Ajahn Chah, one of Thailand’s most renowned Buddhist monks and meditation masters, at Wat Nong Pah Pong forest kloster in Northeast Thailand. He took full ordination, with Ajahn Chah as his preceptor, in 1980.
In 1997, Ajahn Jayasaro assumed the position of abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat, the international kloster of Ajahn Chah’s lineage, where he remained until the end of 2002. Since early 2003, he has been living in a hermitage at the foot of Khao Yai Mountain National Park. The Dhamma teachings and meditation retreats he gives at a nearby retreat centre offer inspi
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Ajahn Jayasaro (Shaun Michael Chiverton) was born on the Isle of Wight, England in 1958. In 1978 he became a disciple of Ajahn Chah, one of Thailand’s most renowned Buddhist monks and meditation masters, at Wat Pah Pong forest monastery in Northeast Thailand. He took full ordination, with Ajahn Chah as his preceptor, in 1980.
After his initial five-year monastic training, Ajahn Jayasaro went on an extended solitary retreat before taking on teaching and administrative duties. Over the next several years he alternated between periods of retreat and service to his monastic lineage. During this time he was entrusted by the elders of his order with writing the official biography of his teacher, Ajahn Chah. In 1997 he assumed the position of abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat, the international monastery of Ajahn Chah’s lineage, where he remained until the end of 2002.
Since early 2003 Ajahn Jayasaro has been living in a hermitage at the foot of Khao Yai Mountain National Park. The Dhamma teac
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Ajahn Jayasāro
Theravāda Buddhist monk
Ajahn Jayasāro (born Shaun Michael Chiverton on 7 January 1958) is a British and Thai Buddhist monk in the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah.[3]
Biography
[edit]Jayasāro was born on the Isle of Wight in England.[3] At the age of seventeen, having been in contact with Buddhism through reading, he left for India, where he spent "a couple of years" travelling and learning before hitchhiking back to England. At the time he was still looking for a way of life in line with his personal principles. In Asia he heard about an Englishman who had been a monk in the Thai Forest Tradition and was leading meditation retreats. Upon hearing his stories of life as a forest monk, he realised it was the way of life he was looking for.[4]
After joining Ajahn Sumedho's community as an anagārika in 1978 he travelled to Thailand to ordain at Wat Nong Pah Pong in 1979.[3] He received full ordination by Ajahn Chah in 19