Dhamma Talks for download:
The Joy of Giving
(9.6Mb
mp3) - uploaded 9.05.2008
Skilful Foundations
(14Mb
mp3) - uploaded 9.12.2006
Bearing with Difficulties
(9Mb
mp3) - uploaded 4.8.2006
Biography
Ven. Ajahn Karuniko (Christopher John Woodfine) was
born in 1953 near Manchester in England. He graduated from Sheffield
University with an honors degree in electronics engineering 1975. After
graduation, he worked as an engineer in North London. His first contact
with Buddhism was from reading a book in 1976 which made a deep
impression on him. Two years later, he had the good fortune to meet Ven.
Ajahn Sumedho who had recently taken up residence in Hampstead Vihara,
North London. He then became an anagarika in 1982 under the guidance of
Ven Ajahn Sumedho at Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, England.
In July 1984, he took the monk’s (bhikkhu) ordination
with Ven Ajahn Sumedho. Ajahn Karuniko had spent most of his monastic
life helping to establish monasteries in England and New Zealand, and
for three years, he has was living in monasteries in Thailand. Currently
he is leaving in Chithurst Buddhist Monastery.
