Theravāda Buddhism Web Directory

This community was set up as a dedication to the Meditation Teachers of the Forest Meditation Tradition of Thailand.

Brief bio's of Ajahn Amaro and Ajahn Passano, and other monks of Abhayagiri.

Inspired by the Theravada forest traditions, Aranya Bodhi: Awakening Forest Hermitage is a rustic, "off the grid" Buddhist women's monastic hermitage on 100+ acres of mountain forest and meadows on the Northern California Sonoma Coast. Aranya Bodhi is the monastic hermitage project of Dhammadharini, a religious non-profit organization in the State of California.

See also: http://awakening-forest-hermitage.blogspot.com

Saranaloka Foundation was established in 2004 to support nuns from Chithurst and Amaravati monasteries in England to come to the United States to teach. After numerous visits, enthusiasm for the presence of women monastics allowed Saranaloka to extend an invitation to the nuns' community to set up a permanent monastery here in the United States.