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Male-monastic-teachers
Ajahn Amaro [t]

Ajahn Mun Bh ū ridatta [T]

[ 1870 – 1949, 1993 ]

Books

1. A Heart Released
2. Khandha Vimutti and Samangidhamma

Buddhad ā sa Bhikkhu [T]

[ 1906 – 1993, 1926 ]

Introduction

Weblinks

1. Buddhadasa - Wikipedia
2. Suan Mokkh - Garden of Liberation
3. Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives (bia.or.th)
4. Kevala Retreat (c/o Liberation Park) 2019
 5. Kevala Retreat – A Midwestern Dhamma Refuge for contemplative
practice and awakening wisdom

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6. Suan Mokkh Bangkok (facebook.com)

7. Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu (@Buddhadasa_B) / Twitter
8. Buddhadasa Bhikkhu - YouTube
9. Stream Buddhadasa Bhikkhu Dhamma Talks music | Listen to
songs, albums, playlists for free on SoundCloud

Books

Book Library - Suan Mokkh

1. A Single Bowl of Sauce Solves All the World’s Problems - Suan
Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
2. A Single Bowl of Sauce : Teachings Beyond Good & Evil - Suan
Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
3. Buddha-Dhamma For Inquiring Minds - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub,
mobi ]
4. Concerning Birth - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
5. Dhamma for Sick People - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
6. Dhammic Socialism - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
7. Fear - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
8. Getting Started in Mindfulness With Breathing - Suan Mokkh [ pdf,
epub, mobi ]
9. Happiness & Hunger - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
10. Idappaccayata: The Buddhist Law of Nature - Suan Mokkh [ pdf,
epub, mobi ]
11. Kamma in Buddhism - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
12. Living in the Present without Past, without Future - Suan Mokkh [
pdf, epub, mobi ]
13. Looking Within - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
14. Loving Others - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
15. May We Leave This Legacy With You (Section I) - Suan Mokkh [
pdf, epub, mobi ]
16. Natural Cure for Spiritual Disease - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi
]
17. Nibbana from Every Angle - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
18. Nibbana for Everyone - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
19. No Religion - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
20. Paticcasamuppada: Practical Dependent Origination - Suan Mokkh
[ pdf, epub, mobi ]
21. Quenching Without Remainder & The Fruit of Meditation - Suan
Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
22. Seeing with the Eye of Dhamma - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
23. The A, B, C of Buddhism - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
24. The First Ten Years of Suan Mokkh - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi
]
25. The Liberating Teachings of Buddhadasa on Suchness - Suan
Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
26. The Meditative Development of Mindfulness of Breathing - Suan
Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
27. The Prison of Life - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
28. The World of Metteyya Is at the Tip of Our Nose by Buddhadasa -
Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
29. Void Mind - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
30. Where Is Suan Mokkh? - Suan Mokkh [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
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31. Anapanasati – Mindfulness of Breathing [ pdf1, pdf2, ]

32. Buddhadasas Movement – An Analysis of Its Origins, Development,
and Social Impact
33. Companion to Under the Bodhi Tree – readings on
paṭiccasamuppāda from Pāli Suttas
34. Handbook for Mankind [ pdf,
35. Mindfulness with Breathing – A Manual for Serious Beginners [
pdf1, pdf2, ]
36. The Buddhas Doctrine of Anatta – A Comparative study of Self and
Not-Self in Buddhism, Hinduism and Western Philosophy
37. Under the Bodhi Tree – Buddha's Original Vision of Dependent Co-
arising
38. Voices from the Wilderness – A Selection of Articles
39. Why Were We Born

Talks

Ajahn Maha Bua Ñ āṇ asampanno [T]

[ 1913 – 2011, 1934 ] 97

Weblinks

Books
 1. A Life of Inner Quality
2. Amata Dhamma – Six Talks on Dhamma
3. Arahattamagga, Arahattaphala – The Path to Arahantship
4. Don't Desert the Core Principles of Dhamma Vinaya
5. Forest Desanas – 21 Talks on Dhamma
6. Forest Dhamma – A Selection of Talks on Buddhist Practice
7. Paṭipadā – Venerable Ācariya Mun’s Path of Practice
8. Kamatthana – The Basis of Practice
9. Mae Chee Kaew – Her Journey to Spiritual Awakening &
Enlightenment
10. paying our last respects – In Commemoration of Venerable
Acharn Mahā Bua Ñāṇasampanno
11. Samaṇa
12. Straight form the Heart
13. The Dhamma Teaching of Ajaan Mahā Boowa in London
14. Things as They Are – A Collection of Talks on the Training of
the Mind
15. Venerable Ācariya Mun Bhūridatta Thera – A Spiritual
Biography
16. Venerable Ajaan Khao Anālayo – A True Spiritual Warrior
17. Wisdom Develops Samadhi

Ajahn Chah [T]

[ 1918 – 1992, 1939 ]

Introduction
Weblinks

1. Ajahn Chah - Wikipedia

Books

1. A Taste of Freedom
2. A Tree in a Forest – A Collection of Ajahn Chah’s Similes
3. Bodhiyana
4. Clarity of Insight
5. Everything Is Teaching Us
6. Food for the Heart
7. Forest Path
8. Key to Liberation
9. Living Dhamma
10. No Ajahn Chah – Reflections
11. The Blooming Lotus and Dull Frogs
12. The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah
13. The Path to Peace
14. The Teachings of Ajahn Chah – A Collection of Ajahn Chah’s
Dhamma Talks
15. Still Flowing Water
16. Unshakable Peace

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17. Tuccho Poṭhila

Transcribed Talks

18. The Arrising of Wisdom

19. Our Real Home
20. What Is Contemplation
21. Wisdom and Advice
22. Your Own Path

Ajahn Sumedho [t]

[ 1934 – …, 1967 ]

Introduction

Weblinks

1. Ajahn Sumedho - Wikipedia

2. Ajahn Sumedho – Dhamma Media Library

Books

Dhamma Media Library | Books Audio Video | Amaravati Buddhist

Monastery

1. 2020, The Four Noble Truths [ pdf, epub, mobi ]

2. 2017, Intuitive Awareness [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
3. 2014, Anthology Vol 1 – Peace is a Simple Step [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
4. 2014, Anthology Vol 3 – Direct Realization [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
5. 2014, Anthology Vol 5 – The Wheel of Truth [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
 6. 2012, Mindfulness – The Path to the Deathless [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
7. 2011, Now is the Knowing [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
8. 2011, Cittaviveka [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
9. 2010, Nothing is more joyless than selfishness [ pdf ]
10. 1984, The way it is [ pdf ]

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11. Don’t Take Your Life Personally [ pdf, epub, mobi ]

12. Gratitude [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
13. Peace and Kindness [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
14. Teachings of a Buddhist Monk [ pdf, epub, mobi ]

Ajahn Khemadhammo [t]

[ 1944 – , 1972]

Introduction

Ajahn Viradhammo [t]

[ 1947 – , 1974 ]

Weblinks

1. Ajahn Viradhammo - Wikipedia

2. Tisarana Buddhist Monastery – In the Forest Tradition of
Ajahn Chah, Ajahn Sumedho, and Amaravati Monastery

Books

1. 2005, Stillness of Being

Talks

1. Tisarana Buddhist Monastery on Apple Podcasts

2. Ajahn Viradhammo Archives - Amaravati Buddhist
Monastery

Ajahn Pasanno [t]

[ 1949 – , 1974 ]

Books

Ajahn Sucitto [t]

[ 1947 – , 1974 ]

Weblinks

Books

1. Samadhi is Pure Enjoyment

2. Buddha-Nature, Human Nature
3. Clarity and Calm - for Busy People - An everyday guide to
mindfulness
4. Discipline and Conventions of Theravada Buddhist
Renunciation Communities [ A Guide for the Western
Sangha]
 5. Great Patient One
6. Introduction to Insight Meditation
7. Kalyāṇa – Dhamma talks
8. Kamma and the End of Kamma
9. Meditation – A Way of Awakening
10. Meditation – An Outline
11. The Most Precious Gift – Honouring the Life and Work of
Ajahn Sucitto
12. Pāramī – Ways to Cross Life’s Floods
13. Buddhist Rituals & Observances
14. Rude Awakening
15. Turning the Wheel of Truth – Commentary on the Buddha’s
First Teaching

Ajahn Brahm-ava ṃ so [t]

[ 1951 – , 1975]

Books
1. All You Need Is Kindfulness – A Collection of Ajahn Brahm
Quotes, 2018, Bodhiyana Buddhist Monastery
2. Bear Awareness – Questions and Answers on Taming Your
Wild Mind, 2017, Wisdom Publications, Boston
3. Don’t Worry Be Grumpy – Inspiring Stories for Making the
Most of Each Moment, 2014, Wisdom Publications, Boston
4. Emptiness and Stillness – A tribute to Venerable Ajahn
Brahmavamso on the occasion of his 60th birthday, 2011, The
Buddhist Society of Western Australia
5. Falling is Flying – The Dharma of Facing Adversity, 2019,
Wisdom Publications, Boston
6. Kindfulness – Don’t just be mindful, be Kindful, 2016,
Wisdom Publicatios, Boston
7. Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond – A Meditator’s Handbook,
2006, Wisdom Publications, Boston
8. The Art of Disappearing – The Buddha’s Path to Lasting Joy,
2011, Wisdom Publications, Boston
9. Who Ordered this Truckload of Dung? – Inspiring Stories for
Welcoming Life’s Difficulties, 2005, Wisdom Publications,
Boston
10. Vinaya Notes

11. Transcribed Talks

12. Bāhiya’s Teaching – In the Seen is just the Seen [2005.05]

{13pgs}
13. The Basic Method of Meditation (13/15pgs)
14. Becoming Enlightened (3pgs)
15. Bhikkhunis (13pgs)
16. Bliss of Letting Go (2/3pgs)
17. Buddhism and Science (16pgs)
18. Buddhism, The Only Real Science (4pgs)
19. Buddhist Sexual Ethics – A Rejoinder (2pgs)
 20. Contemplation of Death, 20th December 2000, Bodhiyana
Monastery (17pgs)
21. Dealing with Difficult People, [28 Nov, 2008] (13pgs)
22. Decisions, Decisions, Decisions (24pgs)
23. Deep Insight [Perth, April 1999] (10pgs)
24. Ending of Thinsg – A Discourse on Non-Self [1999 Rains
Retreat at Bodhiyana Monastery]
25. My Understanding of Asubha’s Practice {16pgs}
26. When Does Human Life Begin in This Body? [20070.09 –
Perth] {4pgs}
27. Vinaya
28. Ownership and Administration of Monasteries (1.2pgs)

29. A Buddhist Path to Reconciliation

30. Walking Meditation

Ajahn Anan Akiñcano [T]

[ 1954 – , 1975]

Introduction

Weblinks
www.watmarpjan.org

Books

1. Reflections from Emptiness – Dhamma Quotes on the Path

to Liberation
2. Simple Teachings on Higher Truths
3. Sotāpattimagga – The Path of the Sotāpanna
4. The World & the Heart

Ajahn Amaro [t]

[ 1956 – , 1979]

Weblinks

1. Ajahn Amaro - Wikipedia

Books

1. Dhamma Media Library | Books Audio Video | Amaravati Buddhist

Monastery [ Ajahn Amaro ]

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1. An Introduction to the Life and Teachings of Ajahn Chah [ pdf,

ebub, mobi ]
2. Catastrophe|Apostrophe – The Buddha’s teaching on Dependent
Origination|Cessation [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
3. Don’t Push – Just use the weight of your own body [ pdf, epub,
mobi ]
4. Finding the Missing Peace: A Primer of Buddhist Meditation [ pdf,
epub, mobi ]
 5. For the Love of the World [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
6. I’m Right, You’re Wrong! [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
7. Inner Listening – Meditation on the Sound of Silence [ pdf, epub,
mobi ]
8. Just One More… [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
9. Rain on the Nile [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
10. Rugged Interdependency – A Monk’s Reflections on the American
Buddhist Landscape [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
11. Small Boat, Great Mountain [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
12. The Breakthrough [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
13. The Lesser, The Greater, The Diamond & The Way [ pdf, epub, mobi
]
14. Tudong – The Long Road North [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
15. Who is pulling the Strings? [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
16. Who Will Feed the Mice? [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
17. Ajahn Passanno & Ajahn Amaro
18. 2001, Broad View, Boundless Heart [ pdf, epub, mobi ]
19. 2000, The Dhamma and the Real World [ pdf, epub, mobi ]

Talks and Podcasts

1. Ajahn Amaro Podcast by Amaravati on Apple Podcasts

2. Ajahn Amaro Podcast by Amaravati (google.com)
3. Dharma Seed - Ajahn Amaro's Dharma Talks
4. Dhamma Talks | Ajahn Amaro - YouTube
 Ajahn Jayas ā ro [t]

Weblinks
1. Ajahn Jayasāro - Wikipedia
2. Dhamma Teachings by Ajahn Jayasaro (panyaprateep.org)
3. Ajahn Jayasaro @ The Open Buddhist University

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1. โรงเรียนทอสี | พุทธปั ญญา (thawsischool.com)

Books

1. Daughters & Sons

2. from heard and hand
3. Stillness Flowing – The Life and Teachings of Ajahn Chah
4. Without and Within – Questions and Answers on the Teachings
of Theravada Buddhism

5. Transcribed Talks

6. Letting Go Within Action – A Dhamma Reflection

[2006.05.29 – Amaravati Buddhist Monastery]
7. Mindfulness, Precepts and Crashing in the Same Car
8. Skilful Desires – A Dhamma Reflection [2012.12.05 –
Amaravati Buddhist Monastery]

Suj ā to Bhikkhu [t]

Books
 Ajahn Chandako [x]

Weblinks

Vimutti Buddhist Monastery

Books

1. A Honed and Heavy Axe – Samatha and Vipasssanā in

Harmony

2. Transcribed Talks

3. Being on Time [2016.04.11 – Cittarama, Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia]
4. Everybody Loves Some Body [1996.06]
5. Samatha and Vipassana in Harmony
 Ajahn Pu ṇṇ adhammo [t]

Weblinks

Books

1. Letter form Māra ( PDF, EPUB )

2. The Buddhist Cosmos
 1. Ajahn Suchart Abhij ā to [T]

2. Weblinks

3. Books

4. Against the Defilements – A Collection of Translated Excerpts

5. Dhamma for the Asking – A Collection of Dhamma Talks
6. Essential Teachings
7. Inspiring Dhamma – A collection of Translated Quotes
8. My Way – An Autobiography
9. Real Happiness
10. Sensual Pleasures are Painful – Eight Talks on Dhamma
11. The Mind and its Endless Rebirth [2013.06.13 - Kaho-Chi On]
12. The Unsatisfactory Nature of Existence [2013.05.11]
13. Westerner Monks from Wat Marpjan [2014.01.06]
 Ajahn Sundaro [t]
1. Friends on the Path – Dhamma Reflections, 2011
2. Paccupanna, the Present Moment – Dhamma Reflections,
2017
3. Seeds of Dhamma
 Ajahn Thate [T]

Books

1. Only the World Ends

Transcribed Talks

2. Buddho
3. Steps Along the Path

Ajahn Thoon (Khippapañño) [T]

[ abcd – …, 1993 ]

Introduction

Books

1. Beyond the Stream of the World

2. Entering the Stream of the Dhamma
 Bhante Madawela Punnaji [S]
[ abcd – …, 1993 ]

Introduction

Weblinks

1. Madawela Punnaji - Dhamma Wiki

2. SUTTA CLASS (bhantepunnaji.com)
3. Welcome to Proto Buddhism- The Original Teachings of the
Buddha
4. Proto Buddhism - The Original Teachings of the Buddha : The
Legacy of Bhante Punnaji
(buddhaoriginalteachings.blogspot.com)
5. Sobhana.net An Audio-Visual Library of Theravada
Buddhism

Books

1. A Buddhist Perspective of Modern Psychotherapy & Evolution of

Consciousness
2. Ariyamagga Bhavana_Level I – Meditation Guide
3. Ariyamagga Bhavana_Level II – Tranquillity of Mind
4. Ariyamagga Bhavana_Level III – Awakening from the dream of
Existence
5. Becoming A Buddhist
 6. Beyond the Horizon of Time - Is Reincarnation Buddhist
7. Buddha, the Radical Shrink – Buddhist Psychotherapy
8. Did we Cross the Threshold of Hope
9. Meditation Guide – With the Sublime Eightfold Way
10. Return to Tranquility
11. The Philosophy of Vesak
12. The Four Evolutionary Stages of Religion
13. The Psychology of Metta
14. Why Religion?

PA. Payutto [T]

Weblinks

Books

Amazon.com

1. Dependent Origination – The Buddhist Law of Conditionality

[ pdf1, pdf2, ]
 Bhikkhu K. Ñ āṇā nanda [S]

The Law of Dependent Arising: Sermon 15 by Bhikkhu K. Ñāānanda

(narrated by Bhikkhu Candana)

Dhamma Audiobooks

Female-monastic-teachers

Ayy ā Khem ā [s]

[ 1923 – 1997, 1979 ]

Introduction

Born in Berlin in 1923 to Jewish parents, AYYA KHEMA was educated in

Scotland and China and later emigrated to the United States. She was
ordained as a nun in Sri Lanka in 1979 and established several Buddhist
centers, including Wat Buddha Dhamma in Australia, Parapuddua Nun’s
Island in Sri Lanka, and Buddha-Haus in Germany. She is the author of
twenty-five books including the bestselling Being Nobody, Going Nowhere.
She passed away in 1997.

Weblinks
Ayya Khema - Wikipedia

Books

1. Xxxx, Be an Island
2. 1987, Being Nobody, Going Nowhere
3. 1990, Know Where You're Going – A Complete Buddhist
Guide [ to Meditation, Faith, and Everyday Transcendence]
4. 1997, Who Is My Self – A Guide to Buddhist Meditation [The
Poṭṭhapāda Sutta – The Buddha’s Words on Self and
Consciousness]

Articles

1. The Meditative Mind

Ajahn Candasiri
[ xxxx – xxxx, 1977 ]

Introduction

Ajahn Candasiri was born in Scotland in 1947 and

was brought up as a Christian. After university
she trained and worked as an occupational
therapist, mainly in the field of mental illness. In
1977, an interest in meditation led her to meet
Ajahn Sumedho, shortly after his arrival from
Thailand. Inspired by his teachings and example, she began her monastic
training at Chithurst as one of the first four anagārikās.

Weblinks

Books

Ajahn Metta
[ 19xx – …., 1993]

Introduction

Ajahn Metta was born 1953 in Germany. She

became an Anagārikā in ‘93 at Amaravati and took
higher ordination as a Sīladhāra in ‘96. During her
monastic life she has been involved in many areas
of the community. She is one of the group of
senior nuns leading the Sīladhārā community.
For the past few years she has been teaching meditation workshops and
retreats. Prior to monastic life she worked as a secretary and office
assistant. She is a mother of a grown-up son and was living a family life
before entering the monastic path. She has been practising meditation
since ‘84 and has experience of living in other spiritual communities in
Europe and Thailand (Wat Suan Mokkh).

Ayya Santacitta
[ abcd – …, 1993 ]
Introduction

Santacitta Bhikkhuni trained as a nun in England

& Asia from 1993 until 2009, primarily in the
lineage of Ajahn Chah. Since 2002, she has also
received teachings in the lineage of Dilgo Khyentse
Rinpoche. She co-founded Aloka Vihara Forest
Monastery in Northern California in 2009 and is committed to our planet
as a living being. Santacitta Bhikkhuni stammt aus Österreich and begann
ihre Nonnenausbildung 1993 in England & Asien, vor allem in der
Traditionslinie von Ajahn Chah. Seit 2002 empfängt sie auch
Unterweisungen in der Traditionslinie von Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Sie ist
Mitbegründerin von Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery in Kalifornien und
unserem Planeten als lebendes Wesen verpflichtet.

Ayy ā Tath ā lok ā [t]

[ 1968 – …, 1988 ]

Introduction

Santacitta Bhikkhuni traine

Weblinks
 1. Tathālokā Bhikkhunī - Wikipedia
2. Biography Tathaloka Ayya | Dhammadharini
3. Dhammadharini Monastery | California

Books

Male-lay-teachers

Female-lay-teachers