LP Pasanno took ordination in Thailand in 1974 with Venerable Phra Khru Ñāṇasirivatana as preceptor. During his first year as a monk he was taken by his teacher to meet Ven. Ajahn Chah, with whom he asked to be allowed to stay and train. One of the early residents of Wat Pah Nanachat, LP Pasanno became its abbot in his ninth year. During his incumbency, Wat Pah Nanachat developed considerably, both in physical size and reputation. Spending twenty-four years living in Thailand, LP Pasanno became a well-known and highly respected monk and Dhamma teacher. he moved to California on new year’s eve of 1997 to share the abbotship of Abhayagiri with Tan Ajahn Amaro. In 2010 Tan Ajahn Amaro accepted an invitation to serve as abbot of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in England. LP Pasanno is now the sole abbot of Abhayagiri.”
