Overview of the Ayukusala Sangha Training
2000–2005

Since the beginning of this century, 28 male and 6 female persons have received monastic training within the Ayukusala Sangha. After completing their training, most of them have returned to their professional life and continue their Dhamma-Duta as lay people. Some of the Ayukusala trainees have reached excellent results by realizing the path and its fruit, most of them have just only enjoyed discovering the advantages of monastic life without much progress in meditation, notwithstanding, the training of 5 monks and 2 nuns ended by a failure.

Here are the names of the successful Ayukusala trainees:

2000: Tiranakusala, Khippakusala,

2001: Akasakusala, Atthakusala, Balakusala,

2002: Atarikusala, Bandhukusala, Dhitakusala, Hitakusala, Mantakusala, Ayya Vajira,

2003: Santakusala, Vimalakusala, Vijitasiddhi,

2004: Averakusala, Mangalakusala, Pasadakusala, Rohanakusala, Viriyakusala, Ayya Cira,

2005: Sarakusala, Yasakusala, Patukusala, Subhuti, Suvanno, Ayya Bhadda, Ayya Tisa.

The nationalities of these Ayukusala trainees are:

American (1), Austrian (1), Bengali (1), Czech (19), German (1), Sinhala (3), Slovak (2), Swiss (1).

Some trainees, after having concluded their relation to Ayukusala properly, became physically or mentally very ill and do not anymore belong to Ayukusala: Cira, Dhitakusala, Patukusala.

Here are the names of the trainees who failed completely and thus do not belong to Ayukusala. Some of them moreover became involved in such activities that damage the Buddha-Sasana: Acarakusala, Jagarakusala, Kalakusala, Pavesakusala, Sobhanakusala, Indriya, Vimokkha.

Even more so we congratulate those members of the Ayukusala Sangha who, after having profited from their training, became in Europe well recognized teachers of Buddhist meditation, as e.g. the Venerables Akasakusala, Atarikusala, Hitakusala; some did Buddhist mission in Africa as e.g. the Venerable Tiranakusala; some published pictorial presentations of the Dhamma as e.g. Venerables Averakusala and Bandhukusala; some published (under their lay names) books on Buddhism as e.g. Venerable Atarikusala (Zdenek Trávníeek), Venerable Hitakusala (Roman Hytych), Venerable Mantakusala (Lukáš Marvan).

The above OVERVIEW is based upon the data provided by the Venerable Ayukusala Thera, from whom more details about the training can be requested on the e-mail: bhante@ayukusala.org

For more information on the tradition Ayukusala see the website: www.ayukusala.org

The Buddha’s followers assembled in the Ayukusala Central European Sangha (ACES), hold the Dhamma to be skillful (kusala) living (ayu). The Buddha’s Noble Eightfold Path provides for character cultivation and handling everyday situations (sila–sikkha), meditation training (samadhi–sikkha) and developing wisdom (panna–sikkha). This applies to both the lay and monastic orders (sangha). The ACES are not compliant to any particular sect (nikaya) of the various contemporary national Buddhist institutions.
The ACES are following the original Buddha–Dhamma recorded in the Pali Canon and kept alive in the unbroken tradition of Theravada.

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Overview of the Ayukusala Sangha Training 2000–2005

Overview of the Ayukusala Sangha Training
2000–2005