Nuns’ Community in the US

This is a brief announcement to let people know that plans are afoot to help a community of nuns from the Amaravati and Chithurst lineage be established in the United States. In winter 2009, three nuns stayed for two months in the San Francsico Vihara sponsored by the Saranaloka Foundation. The nuns were pleasantly surprised by the level of support they received and plan to return to the San Francisco Vihara in winter 2010.

To learn more about this, please visit the website for Saranaloka Foundation, which is an organization founded to foster a growing relationship with the siladharas (ten-precept nuns) of Amaravati and Cittaviveka Monasteries by supporting them on their teaching tours in the United States. Saranaloka hopes to provide facilities for a community of nuns to reside in the United States full-time.