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This group is about original Buddhist Practice and Dhamma based on the earliest texts. It follows the English translations put forth by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi and guided in presentations by Ven. Bhante Vimalaramsi of the Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center who is the overseeing Abbot. While practicing Right Striving, efforts are directed towards Observing, Practicing, Preserving and Teaching the original Buddha Dhamma . We help others move towards a more balanced peaceful life by learning the true nature of everything including HOW mind works! This order is dedicated to producing FULLY TRAINED Bhikkunis who gain respect of elder Sangha members ONLY through having experienced and clearly understood the Dhamma. Our ordination program follows the Vinaya as closely as possible for today's world.  We seek to help all people bring back their childlike curiosity, lightness, happiness, and balance into their lives.  In essence we help people find a more useful peaceful co-existence within our present day society. This Tradition supports the continuation of this Dispensation of the Buddha Dhamma faithfully memorizing and developing materials which are easy to understand, lead people to immediate results, and create unshakable confidence in the  Buddha's Teachings. We fully encourage personal experience in Buddhist Meditation, questioning and testing of all that is taught. We respectfully  offer to teach others in ENGLISH the Dhamma no matter who they are. We offer equality in training, regardless of sex,  founded on the basis of compassion, respect, and sincere effort. This was the Buddha's way.

While carrying on an abiding respect for the World Buddhist Sangha at large [All world communities of Buddhist monks and nuns], the nuns of the Buddhist American Forest Tradition are dedicated to this work.

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Our mission as forest nuns is to practice smiling, just as it was so contentedly done in the original Buddhist Meditation Practice. We do this in an effort to fully understand, and then support and teach the Buddha Dhamma. As nuns, we follow a path renouncing the World and householders life, leaving society and existing on Dana/donations only from lay and monastic communities throughout the world. We strive to support peaceful co-existence through understanding suffering, realizing the cause of it, realizing the possibility of its cessation, and practicing the path to that cessation which the Buddha taught.  Donations for this work are made through the United International Buddha Dhamma Society. (UIBDS) is the supporting non-profit temple/church structure sustaining this order. UIBDS also helps to arrange alliances with other Buddhist traditions and centers throughout the world who hold similar interests in getting back to the original Buddha Dhamma for the sake of developing Peace and Order in the world.  By our reaching out to others, we strive to demonstrate how the original meditation practice can be easily integrated into modern daily life. It can bring relief, joy and happiness to the common person in daily life and relieve suffering. Your kind support is welcome. This center develops to serve you. The entire Buddhist monastic tradition, including all groups, are of great merit for all beings and will lead towards Peace among people of all nations and continue to enrich members of all faiths through teaching this meditation practice..

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"This project truly is a new approach to Buddhism and a refreshing adventure in America." This group holds in great respect the entire World Buddhist Sangha and looks forward to its support and enthusiasm towards women and men becoming equally trained and disciplined as monks in this 21st century.

To date the remark heard most often from students when studying meditation with our American Abbot is "Oh WOW!" or "At last, Buddhism has finally come home 'clearly' to the West! It's not confusing anymore. It is like one beautiful tapestry!" This is followed by sincere smiles and much happy energy for this wonderful discovery of how to live more in the present moment with joy and once again smile in life.

One student commented, "It's true! One CAN actually live in a smile and it changes everything! It is great fun to watch people figure this out. Come and see!" Chris F./Australia

"For me coming to find Dhamma Sukha and the nuns project was like finally seeing Buddhism come home in the West! Wonderful!"
S./ England

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