Ayya Santussika

Ayya Santussika Bhikkhuni entered monastic life in the Theravada tradition in 2005.  Her faith in the Dhamma developed during many visits to Thailand beginning in 1999. She trained as a nun in large and small monasteries in both England and America. In 2012, she founded Karuna Buddhist Vihara which has a meditation center in Sunnyvale, California and a hermitage, where she currently lives, located in the Santa Cruz Mountains near Boulder Creek. Her teachings are primarily based on the Pali suttas and can be found on the Karuna Buddhist Vihara YouTube channel and on Dharmaseed.