Daylong Meditation retreat at the Wat in Niles, Fremont CA (In Person)

WHEN:	Feb 04, 2023 09:00 AM
WHAT:	First daylong retreat since the pandemic. Ayya Santusika has offered to share the dhamma at Wat Buddhanusorn for a full day retreat on Saturday, February 4 from 9am-4:00pm. You may attend the full day or any part of the day that works for you. Please bring food to share with others for a communal lunch. Hope to see you there! RSVP: snapdragon38@gmail.com About our teacher: Ayya Santussikā Bhikkhunī Ayya Santussika entered monastic life as an anagarika (eight-precept nun) in 2005, then ordained as a samaneri (ten-precept nun) in 2010 and a bhikkhuni (311 rules) in 2012 at Dharma Vijaya Buddhist Vihara in Los Angeles. She has trained in large and small communities of nuns, including Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries of the Ajahn Chah tradition in England. Ayya Santussika was born in Illinois in 1954 and grew up on a farm in Indiana. While being a single mother, she received BS and MS degrees in computer science. She worked as a software designer and developer for fifteen years in the Bay Area. Her search for deeper meaning and ways to be of service led her to train as an interfaith minister in a four-year seminary program that culminated in an Masters of Divinity degree. She began traveling in Asia in 1999, learning from master teachers, particularly in Thailand. It was these experiences, along with time spent at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California that caused her faith to develop to the point of choosing to live and practice as a Theravadan nun.
WHERE:	Niles, Ca
HOST:	Aditie Vaid