{"id":8433,"date":"2024-10-22T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T08:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/?page_id=8433"},"modified":"2025-05-17T23:42:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T21:42:42","slug":"anandabodhi-bhikkhuni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/monks-nuns\/anandabodhi-bhikkhuni\/","title":{"rendered":"Anandabodhi Bhikkhuni"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8594 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Ayya_Anandabodhi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\nAyya \u0100nandabodh\u012b was born and raised in Wales, UK. Ayya first encountered the Buddha\u2019s teaching in her early teens while reading about the Four Noble Truths. This was life-changing and from that moment she experienced a deep confidence in the Buddha\u2019s insight and a wish to understand his teachings more deeply. At the age of 24, Ayya began monastic training at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in England under the guidance of Ajahn Sumedho. Seventeen years later she moved to the USA with a wish to create more opportunities for women monastics. In 2011 she took full Bhikkhun\u012b Ordination, joining the worldwide revival of the Therav\u0101da Bhikkhun\u012b Order. Ayya \u0100nandabodh\u012b loves to share the Dhamma. Ayya\u2019s practice is guided by early Buddhist scriptures, living in community, and through nature\u2019s pure and immediate Dhamma.<br \/>\nAyya \u0100nandabodh\u012b resides in <a href=\"https:\/\/parayanavihara.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">P\u0101r\u0101yana Vih\u0101ra<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8435 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Ayya-Anandabodhi-1-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"221\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Ayya-Anandabodhi-1-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Ayya-Anandabodhi-1.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayya \u0100nandabodh\u012b was born and raised in Wales, UK. Ayya first encountered the Buddha\u2019s teaching in her early teens while reading about the Four Noble Truths. This was life-changing and from that moment she experienced a deep confidence in the&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/monks-nuns\/anandabodhi-bhikkhuni\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8433","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8433","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8433"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8433\/revisions\/8800"}],"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=8433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}