{"id":6994,"date":"2021-10-01T08:52:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T06:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/?page_id=6994"},"modified":"2025-05-17T23:31:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:31:23","slug":"santacitta-bhikkhuni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/monks-nuns\/santacitta-bhikkhuni\/","title":{"rendered":"Santacitta Bhikkhuni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6995 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Santacitta-Bhikkuni.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"190\" \/>Ayya Santacitta was born in Austria and did her graduate studies in Cultural Anthropology, focusing on dance, theatre and ritual. She also worked in avant-garde dance theatre as a performer and costume designer. In 1988 she met Ajahn Buddhadasa in southern Thailand, who sparked her interest in Buddhist monastic life. She <a href=\"https:\/\/alokavihara.org\/about\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trained as a nun<\/a> in England and Asia from 1993 until 2009, primarily in the lineage of Ajahn Chah, and has also received teachings in the Shechen lineage of Tibetan Buddhism..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ayya Santacitta co-founded Aloka Vihara in 2009 and received Bhikkhuni Ordination in 2011. She is committed to Gaia as a living being and resides at <a href=\"https:\/\/alokavihara.org\/aloka-earth-room\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aloka Earth Room<\/a> currently located at San Rafael, CA.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Ayya Santacitta was born in Austria and did her graduate studies in Cultural Anthropology, focusing on dance, theatre and ritual. She also worked in avant-garde dance theatre as a performer and costume designer. In 1988 she met Ajahn Buddhadasa&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/monks-nuns\/santacitta-bhikkhuni\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6994","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6994"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8799,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6994\/revisions\/8799"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}