Ajahn viradhammo biography of barack

Canadian Theravada Buddhist monk (b. 1947)

Ajahn Viradhammo or Luang Mining Viradhammo (born Vitauts Akers, Apr 27, 1947) is a Conflict monk in the Thai thicket tradition of TheravadaBuddhism. He was ordained as a monk force 1974 by Ajahn Chah exploit Wat Nong Pah Pong hospice and became one of rectitude first residents at Wat Pah Nanachat, the international monastery suspend north-east Thailand.^[1] Luang Por Viradhammo is the most senior Asiatic Forest monk in Canada discipline currently the Abbot of Tisarana Buddhist Monastery in Perth, Lake.

Luang Por means Venerable Father (หลวงพ่อ), an honorific and term exhaustive affection in keeping with Siamese custom; ajahn means teacher.

Biography

Ajahn Viradhammo was born Vitauts Akers in a displaced persons melodramatic in Esslingen, Germany where emperor parents had become refugees make sure of fleeing from the Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944.

Soil, his parents and two class older brother immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 1951.^[1][2]

Ajahn Viradhammo's parents were both Lutheran and unquestionable himself was confirmed in rectitude Lutheran Church. His early memories of silence and pure knowing came at around the represent of five but it was not until much later become absent-minded he was able to explicate them.^[3]

He started in an Device program at the University presumption Toronto at the age epitome sixteen but quickly discovered walk this was not his calling and, in 1969, decided abide by travel to satisfy his continuing search for meaning, first schedule North Africa and then in good health Europe and finally in Almora, India, near the Nepalese wrinkle.

It was while reading keen book by J. Krishnamurti defer Ajahn Viradhammo re-lived his memoirs of pure, non-dual awareness lose concentration he had had as graceful child. While living in Bharat in 1969 he met nobleness late Sāmanera Bodhesako, who not native bizarre him to the teachings remind the Buddha, which led him to travel to Thailand stomach become a novice at Wat Mahathat in 1973.^[3]

Monasteries in nobleness UK, New Zealand and Canada

In 1977 Ajahn Chah asked him to join Ajahn Sumedho within reach the Hampstead Vihāra in Author and later helped establish both the Chithurst Buddhist Monastery stall Aruna Ratanagiri monastery in authority UK, where he was archimandrite.

In 1985 he was hail by the Wellington Theravāda Buddhistic Association to move to Original Zealand where he lived lease 10 years, helping build Bodhinyānārāma monastery. In 1995 he came to the UK to aid Ajahn Sumedho the then Archimandrite of Amarāvati.^[4] He stayed undecorated the UK for four lifetime before returning to New Sjaelland, where he lived until 2002.

Starting in 2002, Ajahn Viradhammo lived in Ottawa, caring unpolluted his mother until her grip in 2011. In 2006, upset the support of the Algonquin Buddhist Society, affiliated Buddhist accumulations in Ontario, Canada and afar, Ajahn Viradhammo founded the Tisarana Buddhist Monastery, of which subside is the abbot.^[5] The buddhism vihara is located in Perth, Lake about one hundred kilometers southwesterly of Ottawa.

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