Ayya Niyyānika Bhikkhunī
Ayya shares Dhamma through Sutta-based embodiment practices focused on loving-kindness, compassion, settling, and equanimity.
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About Ayya Niyyānika
Niyyanika Bhikkhuni (they/them) entered monastic life in 2014, with full ordination in December, 2017. They share Dhamma through Sutta-based embodiment practices focused on loving-kindness, compassion, settling, and equanimity. Ayya explores identities as ways to grow understanding of conditionality, becoming, letting go, and true safety. They love seeing the Dhamma unfold.
Recent Blog Posts
Return of Website
Niyyanika.org was compromised last December and has been created anew.
Three Treasure Temples in South Korea
Tongdosa: The Buddha Treasure Temple The Buddha Treasure (Tongdosa) Temple was the first of the Three Jewel Temples we visited. We visited on a moon…
Six Years within a Long and Blessed Inheritance
I celebrate six years since Bhikkhunī ordination, Upasampadā, today. This anniversary finds me in South Korea with its rich heritage of Buddhist…