Bodhinyana Monastery
Bodhinyana is a Theravada Buddhist monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition located in Serpentine, about 60 minutes' drive south-east of Perth, Western Australia.The trip resulted in two Australian monks, Ajahn Jagaro (then abbot of Wat Nanachat in Ubon Ratchathani) and Venerable Puriso relocating to Perth in 1982.[2] Notable monks who were trained at Bodhinyana include Ajahn Dhammasiha, who became the first abbot of Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage in Brisbane after establishing it in 2007.The question of fully ordaining nuns is controversial in Buddhism, where sexism and essentialism vis-à-vis narrow gender role expectation is increasingly highlighted and adhered to in traditional practices.According to Ajahn Brahmali (a senior monk at the monastery) in 2010, the number of visitors to Bodhinyana each day varies between 10 and 2,000 people, with the average being around 20.
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