A place for female monastics in the Buddhist Theravada Forest Tradition
The Trust is grateful to a panel of advisors:
Ayyā Karuṇikā – Spiritual Director and Bhikkhuni Advisor
Venerable Tathālokā Mahātherī
Ayyā Medhānandī Bhikkhunī
Willa Thaniya Reid (formerly Ajahn Thaniya)
Dr Elizabeth (Cintamani) Day
Russell Shipman (former Venerable Tenzin Chosang)
New Beginnings for NZBST
“The donation of a monastery where one can practice samādhi & insight, meditating well sheltered & at ease, has been praised by the Buddha as the highest of all gifts to the monastics.
Therefore, wise persons, considering their own welfare, build monasteries to accommodate knowledgeable monastics.
With purified, joyful mind they donate food & drinks, robes &lodging to genuine & upright monastics, who share with them the Dhamma to overcome all suffering.
And having understood the Dhamma, freed from all impurities, right here they realize Nibbāna.”
The Buddha, Cullavagga VI.9.2
(Anumodana for Anathapindika for the donation of Jetavana monastery.
New Zealand Bhikkhunī Sangha Trust 