Dhammadharini Monastery | California
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Dhammadharini

Bhikkhuni Sangha monastic community
San Francisco North Bay
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Looking back at 2025 with Dhammadharini

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UPCOMING HIGHLIGHT

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Event Highlights: A Look Back at Our Sacred Gathering

Footsteps of Mahapajapati Gotami | Honoring Women in Dhamma Carika

Reflecting & Sharing about the “Footsteps of Mahapajapati: Honoring Women in Dhamma” Pilgrimage

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Community Blogs

Writings of Venerable Ayya Tathālokā Mahātherī

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UPCOMING EVENTS

    Sanghamitta Day 2025
    Sanghamitta Day 2025
    Tue, Dec 02
    Zoom, Facebook Live, YouTube Live
    Join the Dhammadharini Bhikkhuni Sangha for devotion, meditation, learning and Dhamma discussion in honor of Sanghamitta Day. Live programs Tuesday December 2nd and Sunday December 7th.

ONGOING EVENTS

PAST YOUTUBE TEACHINGS

“Escaping the world of sense desire”
01:50:56
“Generosity and appreciation”
01:51:30
“Dispel the five hindrances with the four divine abidings”
42:41
“Meditate like the earth …”
55:55
“Going beyond like and dislike”
01:23:45
“Generosity and appreciation”
01:51:30
"Kindness is spacious"
37:14
“Spreading loving kindness in all directions”
01:09:37

Dhammadharini means
"Upholding the Dhamma" in the feminine form

We are a community of seekers, supporters, practitioners and teachers inspired by the Theravada Forest and Insight traditions, the Early Buddhist teachings of Mindfulness & Insight, and the Bhikkhunis' way of monastic life.

"According to the Buddha’s teaching, our best chance for enlightenment is not in a heavenly realm, but here in midst of elements and aggregates, within these bodies which age and sicken, among the earth, rain, wind, fire and consciousness elements. We wake up here, not in another ideal place.

This is the ideal place."

— Ayya Tathālokā, Founding Teacher

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