Luang Por Tiradhammo

Luang Por Tiradhammo is one of the most senior monks in the tradition of Ajahn Chah. He became interested in Dhamma in his student years while traveling through Sri Lanka.  Coming to Thailand and meditating at Wat Umong, he took ordination at Wat Meung Man in Chiang Mai with Venerable Tong in 1974. In 1975 he moved to study with Ajahn Cha at Wat Pa Pong and Wat Pa Nanachat. He went on several tudong journeys through the northeast of Thailand and the mountains of Chiang Mai, visiting many famous forest meditation masters. Venerable Tiradhammo was invited to England in 1982 to help with developments there. He spent two years at Chithurst Monastery and three years in charge of Harnham Vihara in Northumberland. In 1988, Ajahn helped establish Dhammapala Monastery near Bern, Switzerland, and also later at its new location in the Bernese Alpine village of Kandersteg where he was the senior monk until 2005. In July 2005 he assumed the position of a senior monk at Bodhinyanarama, Wellington, NZ where he remained as abbot for six and a half years.  Ajahn is currently of no fixed abode and travels widely to teach the Dhamma and to hold meditation retreats. His visits to many monasteries and other locations can be followed on his blog: http://tiradhammo.blogspot.com/.  Ajahn’s last visit to Singapore was in January 2019 where he held a 2-day non-residential meditation retreat at Wat Palelai on the 26th and 27th of January 2019.