Zoom with Ayyā Medhānandī Bhikkhunī
Please join PFOD in welcoming Ayyā Medhānandī Bhikkhunī, founder and guiding teacher of Sati Sārāņīya Hermitage in Perth, Ontario, on Saturday, Jan. 4, for a morning of meditation and Dhamma reflections. Ayyā will be Zooming in, and attendees are welcome to attend remotely online or gather together at the Portland Dhamma Center to view Ayyā on a large-screen TV.
Zoom with Ayyā Medhānandī Bhikkhunī
10 a.m.-12 p.m. Requesting the Five Precepts, Meditation, Dhamma Reflection, Q&A
12-1 p.m. Optional community potluck
All online participants will be muted throughout the event. Online questions will be accepted in the chat box and shared with Ayyā. Talks will be posted on our website. Please refrain from eating, drinking, or walking around while visually online, or in person.
About Ayyā Medhānandī
Ayyā Medhānandī is the founder and guiding teacher of Sati Sārāņīya Hermitage, a Theravāda forest monastery established in her native Canada in 2007. Her meditation experience spans 55 years, 37 of them as an alms-mendicant nun. She was given sāmaņeri (novice) ordination by Sayadaw U Pandita in Myanmar in March 1988. Nearly 20 years later, she fulfilled her long-held wish for full ordination as a bhikkhunī in Taiwan, joining the wave of pioneer women restoring the Theravāda Bhikkhunī Saņgha in our era.
Dhamma talks by Ayya Medhanandi
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