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Venerable Ajahn Medhanandi - The Biography

Ajahn Medhanandi was born in Montreal, Canada in 1949. After graduating from university and working with the elderly and disabled in the US, she went on pilgrimage to India. There she met her teacher, an Advaita sage, and lived for several years as a nun under his guidance.

Returning to the West, she completed an MSc in nutrition at Tufts University and served as a project manager with UNICEF/WHO and other international aid programmes targetting malnourished women in Thailand, Senegal, Ecuador, and Nepal.

She began her monastic training in 1987, meditating at the Mahasi Sasana Yeiktha in Myanmar and taking ordination with Sayadaw U Pandita. In 1990, she joined the Amaravati Nuns’ Community and trained under the tutelage of Ajahn Sumedho for ten years; thereafter, she was based in New Zealand, practising for six years on her own.

She continues to write, give talks, and lead meditation retreats while travelling in Asia, North America, and the Pacific Rim.

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