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Ajahn Sundara (born 1946) is a French-born Buddhist sīladhārā in the tradition established by Ajahn Sumedho.^[1]

She studied contemporary dance and worked as a dancer and dance teacher until her early thirties when she had the opportunity to meet Ajahn Sumedho in England and to attend one of his Dhamma talks and then a retreat.^[2] She was one of the first four women ordained by Ajahn Sumedho in 1979 as an anagārikā (an eight-precept novice) and in 1983 as a ten-precept sīladhārā.^[3][4] After living at Chithurst Buddhist Monastery in England, Ajahn Sundara moved in 1984 to Amaravati Buddhist Monastery and was instrumental in founding the nuns' community there.^[5] She went to Thailand in the mid-1990s, where she spent more than two years, primarily on retreat at forest monasteries. She has been teaching and leading retreats in Europe and North America for many years.^[6] She currently resides at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, whose history and relevance to women in Buddhism she has chronicled in the book chapter "The Theravada Sangha Goes West: The Story of Amaravati".^[7]

• Gates, Barbara; Gates, Wes, eds. (2008), "On Fearlessness and Fear: a conversation with Tenzin Palmo, Ajahn Sundara, Ajahn Jitindriya and Yvonne Rand" (Paperback), 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, and Uncommon Insight, Boston: Wisdom Publications, pp. 192–198, ISBN 978-0861715510
• Sundara, Ajahn; Candasiri, Ajahn (2011), Friends on the Path, Amaravati Publications, ISBN 978-1-870205-24-5
• Sundara, Ajahn; Candasiri, Ajahn; Metta, Ajahn (2013), The Body, Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, ISBN 978-1-870205-72-6
• Sundara, Ajahn (2014), Walking the World
• Sundara, Ajahn (2016), Seeds of Dhamma, Amaravati Publications, pp. 1–94, ISBN 978-1-78432-046-1
• Sundara, Ajahn (2017), Paccuppanna: The Present Moment, Amaravati Publications, pp. 1–78, ISBN 978-1-78432-079-9

• Thai Forest Tradition
• Ajahn Chah
• Ajahn Sumedho
• Ajahn Candasiri
• Chithurst Buddhist Monastery
• Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

• Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
• Audio recordings of 19 Dharma talks in English on the Dharma Seed library
• Discipline et Liberté a 2011 interview on the TV show Sagesse Boudhiste on France 2 retrieved from the French on-line magazine Bouddhisme au Feminin
• Effort Juste a 2013 interview on the TV show Sagesse Boudhiste on France 2 retrieved from the French on-line magazine Bouddhisme au Feminin