Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera, known as Ajahn Brahm (born Peter Betts on 7 August 1951) is a British Theravada Buddhist monk. Currently Brahm is the Abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery, in Serpentine, Western Australia, the Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia, Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of Victoria, Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of South Australia, Spiritual Patron of the Buddhist Fellowship in Singapore, Patron of the Brahm centre in Singapore, and Spiritual Patron of the Bodhikusuma Centre in Sydney.
Betts was born in London. He came from a working-class background and went to Latymer Upper School. He won a scholarship to study Theoretical physics[2] at Cambridge University in the late 1960s. After graduating from Cambridge, he taught in high school for one year before traveling to Thailand to become a monk and train with the Ajahn Chah Bodhinyana Mahathera. Brahm was ordained in Bangkok at the age of twenty-three by the Abbot of Wat Saket. He subsequently spent nine years studying and training in the forest meditation tradition under Ajahn Chah.
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10 months ago 01:00:46 1
Jak zvládat hněv | Ajahn Brahm | [české znění] |
10 months ago 01:06:17 1
Neuvěřitelná moc mysli | Ajahn Brahm | [české znění] |
12 months ago 01:03:43 1
Jak přežít samotu aneb být SINGL je OK👍| Ajahn Brahm | [české znění] |