# Fantastic Monastics! | Ayya Niyyānika, Ajahn Pandit, Ajahn Cunda, Bhante Rāhula, & Maechee Paññāsiri

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Podcast: [Clear Mountain Monastery Project](https://stenobird.com/podcast/clear-mountain-monastery-project-3695945)
Published: 2026-06-26T19:15:06+00:00
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## Resource

In this series of five talks given on June 20 for Clear Mountain's fourth annual Almsgiving Ceremony, we hear from 5 monastics:00:00:00 - Ayya Niyyānika on how practice begins now, rather than when the monastery is finished;00:02:45 - Ajahn Pandit on the story of Anaruddha, and the relentlessness of worldly life;00:09:38 Ajahn Cunda on the wisdom of finishing work internally every day;00:13:43 Bhante Rāhula on the joy of seeing the four Buddhist communities gathered together;00:19:15 Maechee Paññāsiri on how a monastery is a mirror for our own minds.Ayya Niyyānika's:Ayya Niyyānika trained for eight years in California bhikkhunī communities before traveling throughout the West and Asia to deepen their understanding of renunciation, Saṅgha, and global Buddhist practice. Now part of Passaddhi Vihara in the Pacific Northwest, they center their monastic practice on embodiment rooted in kindness and wise compassion.Ajahn Pandit's:Ajahn Pandit is a British monk and founder of the Little Bangkok Sangha. Ordained in Thailand in 1996, he holds degrees in psychology and Buddhist Studies from Mahā Chulalongkorn University.Ajahn Cunda:Raised in Chicago, Ajahn Cunda moved to California and ordained as a bhikkhu at Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in 2008, training there for over eight years under Luang Por Pasanno and Ajahn Amaro. After practicing widely at various international forest monasteries across Canada, Australia, England, and Italy, he returned to Abhayagiri in 2022 and will begin a one-year retreat at Birken Monastery in this July.Bhante Rāhula:Born in Mexico, Bhante Rāhula ordained in Myanmar under Sayadaw Dr. Nandamālābhivaṃsa and spent over two decades in Asia studying scripture and meditation under prominent masters, including a course at Harvard University in 2019. He n…

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