We are pleased to inform you that Ven. Ajahn Vajiro will be giving a Dhamma talk after Sunday Puja. 

All are encouraged to attend the talk and also bring a cooked vegetarian dish for Dana offering at 11 am.  Please bring your cooked food (healthy vegetarian), fruits or desserts to LG floor by 10.30 am.

For further info, please contact Bro. Danny Liew: 012-2073925.

Ven. Ajahn Vajiro

VENERABLE AJAHN VAJIRO was born in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia in 1953. He studied in England and obtained a degree in Economics in 1974. In 1977, he met Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho when they arrived at the Hampstead Vihara in London. He joined the community in early 1978 and in 1979 just after LP Chah’s second visit to the West and just after the start of Chithurst Monastery, he left for Thailand to start his monastic training. He received Upasampada (higher ordination) at Wat Nong Pah Pong in June 1980.

Ajahn Vajiro returned to England in 1984 and was asked to help with the opening of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery. From 1985 he lived at Harnham Buddhist Monastery in northern England, moving south to Chithurst Forest Monastery in 1986. Seven years later in 1993, he moved to lead the Bodhinyanarama community in Wellington, New Zealand staying until 1998. Following this, he entered a three-year retreat in the hermitage Sanghaloka near Melbourne, Australia before returning to Amaravati in 2001 at the invitation of Luang Por Sumedho.

While in Amaravati, Ajahn Sumedho asked him to advise a lay group in Portugal that had expressed interest to begin a monastery there. In 2010, this led to a formal invitation to establish a Forest Tradition monastery in Portugal and the result is now Sumedharama Buddhist Monastery near Lisbon Portugal, where Ajahn has lived since July 2012