Special guest visits: Ajahn Karuniko

Ajahn Karuniko, a guiding elder from Cittaviveka, England, visited us from 27th to 30th of May, after running a retreat to support the establishment of forest monastery project in Sweden. It was his first visit to Skiptvet Buddhist Monastery.

Ajhan Karuniko

Ajahn Karuniko was born in Greater Manchester in 1953. After graduating in Electronic Engineering in 1975 he worked for several years before coming to take up residence as a novice at Cittaviveka in 1982. He became a bhikkhu in 1984 at Cittaviveka with Ajahn Sumedho as his preceptor. From 2014 until 2019 Ajahn Karuniko served as the abbot of Cittaviveka.