Dhamma Talks for download:
Letting Go is not Rejecting
(10Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.5.2007
Love and Jealously
(15Mb mp3) - uploaded 13.4.2007
Ritual in Religion
(19Mb mp3) - uploaded 13.4.2007
What's it all About?
(18Mb mp3) - uploaded 13.4.2007
Purification and Attainment
(10Mb mp3) - uploaded 9.12.2006
Surviving Selflessly
(17Mb mp3) - uploaded 9.12.2006
Surrender And Renunciation
(12Mb mp3) - uploaded 11.11.2006
Drink Tea Touch Ground
(0Mb mp3) - uploaded 11.11.2006
Freedom Now
(0Mb mp3) - uploaded 22.10.2006
Life is not an Easy Ride
(21Mb mp3) - uploaded 22.10.2006
Acceptance
(9Mb mp3) - uploaded 9.7.2006
Setting a Determination
(9Mb mp3) - uploaded 9.6.2006
Four Noble Truths: Discontentment
(10Mb mp3) - uploaded 9.5.2006
Integrating Your Momentum
(10Mb mp3) - uploaded 7.4.2006
Brahma Vihara
(20Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.8.2005
The Five
Khandas and Will
(11Mb mp3) - uploaded 17.6.2005
Knowing and
Presence
(9Mb mp3) - uploaded 31.3.2005
Link to Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
Biography
Venerable Viradhammo was born at Esslingen in Germany in 1947 to Latvian
refugee parents. They moved to Toronto, Canada, when he was 5 years old.
He studied engineering at the University of Toronto but became
disillusioned with academic life, and left in 1969 to go and work in
Germany. Later, while living in India, he encountered Buddhism, meeting
the late Samanera Bodhesako, who introduced him to the writings of
Venerable Nanavira Thera. He eventually traveled to Thailand to become a
samanera at Wat Mahathat and took upasampada in 1974 at Wat Pah Pong. He
was one of the first residents at Wat Pah Nanachat.
Having spent four years in Thailand, he went back to Canada and Germany
to visit his family in 1977. Instead of returning to Thailand, he was
asked by Ajahn Chah to join Ajahn Sumedho at the Hampstead Vihara, in
London. In subsequent years, he was involved in the establishment of
both Chithurst and Harnham monasteries.
In 1985, on invitation by the Wellington Theravada
Buddhist Association, he moved to New Zealand, accompanied by Venerable
Thanavaro, where he lived for 10 years setting up Bodhinyanarama
monastery.
In 1995 he came to UK to assist Ajahn Sumedho at Amaravati and stayed
for 4 years before returning to New Zealand where he was
resident. Now he is establishing a
Tisarana Buddhist
Forest Monastery in Eastern Canada.
