Ayya Santacitta trained as a novice Buddhist nun for approximately 15 years at an international monastery north of London where Ajahn Sumedho served as abbot

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Ayya Santacitta became a Buddhist nun in 1993

Ayya Santacitta holds full ordination as a Buddhist nun, known in the Pali language as a bhikkhuni

In 2009, Ayya Santacitta moved to the United States to co-found a Buddhist monastery for nuns in San Francisco, California

Ayya Santacitta studied with Buddhist monk Ajahn Buddhadasa in South Thailand

In 1988, Ayya Santacitta met her first Buddhist teacher in the forests of South Thailand

Thai Buddhist master Ajahn Chah taught that suffering consists of two categories: suffering that leads in circles, and suffering that leads out of suffering

Ayya Santacitta left an English Buddhist monastery because the institution did not offer women full ordination as nuns

Buddhist monasteries maintain daily communal routines designed to support individual monastics through personal crises

Monks and nuns during the time of the Buddha practiced daily contemplations of mortality by observing corpses in charnel grounds

Thich Nhat Hanh instructed that calligraphies at Deer Park Monastery that had been displayed for years should be replaced with new ones

Buddhist monk Geelong Ton was on a four-year retreat from 2005 to 2009