Ajahn (Ven.) Canda began meditating in 1996 with S.N. Goenka and spent the next decade deepening her practice in India and Nepal. She renounced as a Buddhist nun in Burma in 2006 and subsequently received full bhikkhuni ordination with Ajahn Brahm as her teacher. Her approach to meditation focuses on kindness and letting go as a means to deepening stillness and is richly informed by the Early Buddhist Texts. Ven. Canda founded Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project with Ajahn Brahm - a UK charity that has now established Britain's first monastery for the full ordination of women, near Oxford!
