Aranya Bodhi Awakening Forest Hermitage

Inspired by the Theravada forest traditions, Aranya Bodhi Hermitage is a rustic, off-grid Buddhist women's monastic hermitage on 100+ acres of mountain forest and meadows on the Northern California Sonoma Coast. Aranya Bodhi is the monastic hermitage project of Dhammadharini support foundation, a religious non-profit organization in the State of California. Contact the hermitage at awakeningforest@gmail.com. Learn more at: dhammadharini.net > About > Aranya Bodhi.

Springtime at the Hermitage

2011 Vassatime Retreat

Hermitage Trailer Update & Invitation from Friends of the Hermitage

First Family Retreat at Aranya Bodhi

Kataññutā

my ego wants to kill me

at my teacher's feet

Today's Puzzler

Seeking a New Kitchen

A Sky Full of Dippers

Are We Surviving?

Lay Steward Sought for Aranya Bodhi

Kathina at Aranya Bodhi — Saturday October 30

Joy

Sangha Entering First Vassa at Aranya Bodhi

Now We Are Four

The Yurt Is Up

Getting Ready for Full Operation

Now We Are Three

first Bhikkhuni Training Retreat on the land