Ajahn                                   Tiradhammo

Now with 40 vassa (years as a monk), Ajahn Tiradhammo is one of the most senior monks in the tradition 
of Ajahn Chah. He became interested in Dhamma in his student years while travelling through Sri Lanka. 
Going to Thailand and meditating at Wat Umong, he took ordination at Wat MMeung Man in Chiang Mai 
with Venerable Tong in 1974.
In 1975 he moved to study with Ajahn Cha at Wat Pa Pong and Wat Pa Nanachat. He went on several tudong 
journeys through the northeast of Thailand and the mountains of Chiang Mai, visiting many famous forest 
meditation masters.
Venerable Tiradhammo was invited to England in 1982 to help with developments there. He spent two years
at Chithurst Monastery, and three years in charge of Harnham Vihara in Northumberland. In 1988 he helped 
establish Dhammapala Monastery near Bern, Switzerland and also later at its new location in the Bernese 
Alpine village of Kandersteg where he was the senior monk until 2005. In July 2005 he assumed the position 
of senior monkat Bodhinyanarama, Wellington, NZ where he remained as abbot for six and a half years. 
He is currently of no fixed abode.