Ajahn Metta

Ajahn Metta was born in 1953 in Germany. She has lived at Amaravati and Chithurst Buddhist Monasteries since 1993 and took higher ordination as a siladhara with Ajahn Sumedho in 1996.

During her monastic life, she has been involved in many areas of the community. For the past several years she has taught retreats and has been one of the sisters to lead the nuns' community at Amaravati. She visited Asia for a year in 2008, spending time on retreat and visiting holy sites in India and Sri Lanka.

Currently, Ajahn Metta is part of the group of senior nuns building up a training monastery in California. Having spent the first three months of 2009 in the USA, she intends to return there by the end of 2009.

Prior to monastic life, she worked as a secretary and office assistant. She is the mother of a grown-up son and lived a family life before entering the monastic path. She has been practicing meditation since 1984 and has lived in other spiritual communities in Europe and Thailand (Wat Suan Mokkh). While there, she came in contact with the Theravada Tradition. Her first teacher was Ajahn Buddhadasa, one of the foremost contemporary teachers in Thailand at the time.

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