Dhammasara Monastery

Dhammasara Nuns Monastery, established by the Buddhist Society of Western Australia in 1998, is primarily a training monastery for nuns in the forest tradition of Theravada Buddhism. The monastery in 583 acres of natural bush land in the hills outside Perth , just a forty-five minute drive from the city centre.

Initially the accommodation was temporary, including a modest caravan and Dhamma shed. The first permanent facility, the Nuns’ Cottage, was completed in January 2001. This building provides accommodation, bathroom, kitchen and laudry facilities for residence, and is the meeting place where supporters come to offer dana (food and other requisites) and receive dhamma teachings. Five brick meditation huts (kutis) have been built in the forrest, and there are plans for future kutis as the community grows.

The present monastic community consists of the abbot, Ajan Sister Vayama, Sister Nirodha, Sister Seri and Sister Hasapanna; as well as two anagarikaas (trainees) – Isabella from Melbourne, Australia and Adeline from New Zealand. At this stage there is no room for short term guests though our future plans include a guest house for lay visitors.

The purpose of the monastery is to allow committed Buddhist women to taste the monastic lifestyle first hand, and if they wish to, be enabled to undertake the training to become fully ordained 10 precept nuns. And there after be able to live the Holy Life for its ultimate purpose; for the attainment of Nibbana (the unshakable deliverance of mind).