22 October 2009, Perth Australia
On 22 October 2009, four sincerely practicing Theravadan nuns in Australia received full ordination into their Sangha.
As a result of the ceremony, Ajahn Vayama and Sisters Nirodha, Seri and Hasapanna from Dhammasara Monastery in Perth, Australia, are now fully ordained Theravadan nuns.
Bhikkhunis!
They were enthusiastically supported in their determination to seek ordination by representatives of their lay community from the Buddhist Society of Western Australia, by their preceptor Ayya Tathaaloka and by abbotts of fellow monasteries Bodhinyana and Santi Forest Monastery.
May these new Theravadan Bhikkhunis be the first of many more in Australian and across the world.
This petition (which was closed to further signatures on 21 December 2009) registered your support for Bhikkhuni ordination in the Forest tradition.
Read letters from Ajahn Brahmavamso and Ajahn Brahmali and the Bodhinyana Sangha about the Bhikkhuni ordination and the expulsion of Ajahn Brahm and his monastery from the Wat Pah Pong community following the ordination.
See references for more.