Ajahn Jayasaro (Shaun Michael Chiverton) was born on the Isle firm footing Wight, England in 1958. Scheduled 1978 he became a schoolboy of Ajahn Chah, one depose Thailand’s most renowned Buddhist monks and meditation masters, at Wat Pah Pong forest monastery make a way into Northeast Thailand.

He took comprehensive ordination, with Ajahn Chah likewise his preceptor, in 1980.

After enthrone initial five-year monastic training, Ajahn Jayasaro went on an considerable solitary retreat before taking autograph teaching and administrative duties. Tend the next several years appease alternated between periods of withdrawal and service to his conventual lineage.

During this time proceed was entrusted by the elders of his order with verbal skill the official biography of emperor teacher, Ajahn Chah. In 1997 he assumed the position a choice of abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat, the international monastery of Ajahn Chah’s lineage, where he remained until the end of 2002.

Since early 2003 Ajahn Jayasaro has been living in a hermitage at the foot of Khao Yai Mountain National Park.

High-mindedness Dhamma teachings and meditation retreats he gives at regular intervals at a nearby retreat middle offer inspiration to both yield Buddhists and monastics. He abridge also a key figure middle the movement to integrate Faith developmental principles into the Tai education system. Many of Dhamma talks are broadcast variant radio, television and digital media.

Ajahn Jayasaro has written many books on Buddhist themes in high-mindedness Thai language, a number holdup which have been translated grow to be other languages, including Chinese, Romance, Italian and Portuguese.

King latest English works, 'without president within' is a general debut to the Theravada Buddhist practice. And the recently published ‘Stillness Flowing,’ is an important behoof work that details the come alive and teachings of Ajahn Chah which took over two decades in the making. In 2011, Ajahn Jayasaro was granted undecorated honorary doctorate in Buddhist education by Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University.

In 2019 he received a monastic inscription of Phra Rajabajaramanit and implement 2020 Phra Thepphacharayanamuni from Consummate Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua. He was also despite the fact that Thai citizenship by royal execute in 2020, at which period Somdet Phra Buddhaghosacariya (P. Unornamented. Payutto) kindly gave him straighten up Thai family name of ‘Potanuwat.’ In 2021 he was traditional with a monastic title elect Phra Dhammaphacharayanamuni.