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Ajahn Amaro (born 1956) is a Theravadin teacher and co-abbot of the Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California's Redwood Valley. The center, in practice as much for ordinary people as for monastics, is inspired by the Thai Forest Tradition and the teachings of the late Ajahn Chah. Its chief priorities are the teaching of Buddhist ethics, together with traditional concentration and insight meditation techniques, as an effective way of dissolving stress.
[edit] BiographyAmaro was born Jeremy Horner in Kent. His father was one of Britain's top dog trainers, and a judge at Crufts. Horner was educated at Lancing and Bedford College. Apart from a certain interest in the theories of Rudolf Steiner, his principal enthusiasms were, by his own admission, pretty much those standard-issue among skeptical students of the day: sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Having managed to complete a degree in psychology and physiology, in 1978 he went on a tourist trip to Thailand. Horner somehow found himself in the forest of northeast Thailand, at the monastery of Wat Pah Nanachat. Ajahn Chah's charismatic impact and the encouragement of the senior American monk Ajahn Sumedho were decisive. It changed his life. Having become a lay renunciate, four months later he became a novice and in 1979 he received upasampada from Ajahn Chah and took profession as a theravadin bhikkhu. Amaro stayed in Thailand for two years, and then went back to England to help Sumedho establish Chithurst Monastery in West Sussex. At the request of his abbot, in 1983 he moved to Harnham Vihara in Northumberland. He made the entire 830-mile journey on foot, chronicled in his 1984 volume Tudong: The Long Road North.[1][2] [edit] Origins of Abhayagiri In the early 1990s Amaro made several teaching trips to northern California. Many who attended his meditation retreats became enthusiastic about the possibility of establishing a permanent monastic community in the area. Meanwhile, Amaravati Monastery, his mother house back in England, received a substantial donation of land in Mendocino County from Chan Master Hsuan Hua, founder of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Talmage. The land was allocated to establish a forest retreat. Since for some years Ajahn Sumedho had venerated the Chinese master, both abbots hoped that, among its other virtues, the center would serve as a symbolic bond between the otherwise distinct Theravada and Mahayana lineages. Care for what became Abhayagiri was placed in the hands of a group of lay practitioners, the Sanghapala Foundation.[2] Amaro's co-abbot at the monastery is Ajahn Pasanno. [edit] Bibliography
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