Who is Ajahn Brahm ?

In short, he is a Thai trained English forest monk and he is a disciple of Ajahn Chad. THe word "Ajahn" means teacher. You can find a lot of literature and vedio about him in Youtube. He is residing in Australia and having a monastry there. He is highly educated and obtained his Masters in one of the top Univesity in UK. He is intelligent,witty and very jovial and definitely, he is also a deep knowledge in Buddhism and open the latest development in the world.

A brief introduction for him:

Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera (lovingly known to most as Ajahn Brahm) was born Peter Betts in London, United Kingdom in August 7, 1951. He came from a working-class background, and won a scholarship to study Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University in the late 1960s. After graduating from Cambridge he taught in high school for one year before travelling to Thailand to become a monk and train with the Venerable Ajahn Chah Bodhinyana Mahathera.
Whilst still in his years as a junior monk, he was asked to undertake the compilation of an English-language guide to the Buddhist monastic code - the Vinaya - which later became the basis for monastic discipline in many Theravadan monasteries in Western countries.
Coming to Australia
The then Venerable Brahm was invited to Perth, Australia by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia to assist Ajahn Jagaro in teaching duties. Initially they both lived in an old house in the suburb of North Perth, but in late 1983 purchased 97 acres (393,000 square metres) of rural and forested land in the hills of Serpentine south of Perth. The land was to become Bodhinyana Monastery (named after their teacher, Ajahn Chah Bodhinyana). Bodhinyana was to become the first dedicated Buddhist monastery in the Southern Hemisphere and is today the largest community of Theravadan Buddhist monks in Australia.
Initially there were no buildings on the land, and as there were only a few Buddhists in Perth at this time, and little funding, the monks themselves began building to save money. So it was that Ajahn Brahm learnt plumbing and brick-laying and built many of the current buildings there himself.


I came to know about him when a friend, SW passed me his VCD and in the VCD it contained 180 of his dharma talks. I was attracted to his light and jovial presentation of Buddhism and after that, I bought a book on the biography of his Master, Ajahn Chad and continued to listen to his dharma talk before I sleep until I finished listening to all his session in the VCD. After that, I visited his blog very often and also see his vedio in the Youtube. I totally enjoyed his talk on his witty and real life presentation of the dharma. Ajahn Chad's book is also a very good read and full of wisdom, Buddhist teaching and his meditation techiques.

Ajahn Brahm, often come to Malaysia and Singapore and he is a very well recieved teacher and he has many follows in Malaysia. I believe his session will be fully packed and early reservation would ensure you a place in the session.

It is highly recommended that you try to attend his session as you will come out a different person and you will see the world in different lights.

For details, search for the article in my blog.

Namaste.