A quiet door into an old practice.
We are a small society forming in Denmark, modelled on sister communities in Norway, the United Kingdom, and Western Australia. Our home is in the earliest Buddhist teachings, and in a network of monks and nuns who teach freely.
Our first retreat will take place in November 2026 with the Norwegian monk Ajahn Nitho. Here you will find the teachers we point to, podcasts, books, and a way to join what is taking shape.
Early Buddhism, in a Danish form.
The goal of the society is to create an open door into the original teachings of the Buddha, making teachings and guidance from nuns and monks accessible, and make it possible for all regardless of background, to practice the noble eightfold path, towards full awakening and unshakable peace.
A small family of teachers across continents.
We are not alone. We sit inside a living network of teachers, monks and nuns, who have produced decades of openly available teaching.
Ajahn Nitho
Norwegian forest monk, born 1970 on the west coast. Educated at the University of Bergen and the Norwegian School of Economics, he worked as a CFO for several years before travelling to Australia in 2007 to ordain under Ajahn Brahm. Full bhikkhu ordination in 2009. He trained for more than ten years in Australia and made several practice stays with Ajahn Ganha in Thailand. He returned to Norway and co-founded Den Norske Buddhistforening (DNBF) in 2021. He is the spiritual director of DNBF and will lead our first retreat in November 2026. His teaching is simple, warm, and direct. He is one of the few teachers in the English-speaking forest tradition network who teach regularly in Scandinavia.
Ajahn Candā
Ajahn Canda is a british bhikkhuni, born in Chesterfield, Northern England. She first encountered the Dhamma in India in 1996 in the Goenka vipassana tradition. Lived 16 years in Asia, ordained as a nun in Myanmar in 2006, and moved to Australia in 2012 after listening to Ajahn Brahms' talks. She received full bhikkhuni ordination at Dhammasara Nuns' Monastery in 2014. In 2016, Ajahn Canda and Ajahn Brahm founded **Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project**. In March 2024, she moved into Anukampa Grove in rural Oxfordshire, the first dedicated Theravāda residence for bhikkhunis in the UK. Known for her compassion and her commitment to inclusivity, she is a sought after teacher internationally. She regularly teaches the DNBF's Venabu retreat in Norway with Ajahn Nitho.
Ajahn Brahm
Born Peter Betts in London in 1951. He read theoretical physics at Cambridge, taught school maths for a year, then travelled to Thailand and ordained in 1974. He trained for nine years under Ajahn Chah at Wat Nong Pah Pong. In 1983 he was sent to Perth to help build Bodhinyana Monastery, where he has been abbot since 1995. He is spiritual adviser to Anukampa, and his books and YouTube talks are for many people the first door into this tradition in the English-speaking world. In 2009 he helped perform the revolutionary bhikkhuni ordination in the Thai Forest tradition. He is known for his warmth, his humour, and his term *kindfulness*, mindfulness paired with kindness. In 2019 he was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
We stand on three other shoulders.
The Norwegian Buddhist Society (DNBF), founded in 2021, has shown us what a modern, open Buddhist society can be in a Nordic setting. Anukampa in Oxford was founded to support the full ordination of women in the West. BSWA in Western Australia is the oldest of the three.
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Be part of what is growing here.
We are gathering a small circle of people who want to be here from the beginning. A few times a year we send a quiet letter about retreats, teachers, and the path the society is taking.