Registration for this retreat is open now. Do not miss this opportunity.

There is no fee charged but donation to defray the cost of holding the retreat is encouraged.  

Closing date is on Sunday, 12 noon, 10 Nov 2019 or when optimum number is reached, whichever is earlier.

Please register online or at our UBV Sunday counter.

For further info, please contact Bro. Bryan Kok: 012-2295583 or email to retreat@bubs.my

Venerable Ajahn Jayanto

Born in Boston in 1967, Tan Ajahn Jayanto grew up in Newton and attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, during which time a period of world travel kindled a great interest in the spiritual life. A meditation class at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center led him to live for a while at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, where he made plans to join the monastic community of Luang Por Sumedho as a postulant at  Amaravati Monastery in England in 1989. Taking bhikkhu (monk) ordination at the related Cittaviveka Monastery in 1991, he trained there and at Aruna Ratanagiri Monastery until 1997, at which point he embarked on a period of practice in Thailand and other Asian Buddhist countries.

He returned to the UK in 2006, where he lived at Amaravati until moving to Temple in 2014. Since 2009 Tan Ajahn Jayanto has helped to lead the efforts to establish a branch monastery in New England, and he now serves as abbot of Temple Forest Monastery.