Mārajinā Bhikkhunī

Mārajinā Bhikkhunī  joined our Karuna Cottage family of teachers in 2024. She also teaches in Ft. White and online through her dhammasala Bhava Nirodha Nilaya. We are deeply grateful for her presence and her teachings.

Stay tuned for her hybrid classes and her occasional teaching of the Thursday Vipassana Sangha at 6 pm.

Ordained in 2012 at Aranya Bodhi Hermitage in California with Pavattinī-Upajjhāya Venerable Tathālokā, Maha Theri and dual ordination presided by the Venerable Seelawimala Maha Thero of the American Buddhist Seminary in Sacramento as Kammavācācariya, Mārajinā Bhikkhunī, has spent the past twelve years studying the mind through the Tipitaka.

Practicing both Jhana and Vipassana meditation her goal was to gain insight into an incapacitating bipolar diagnosis and to attain relief through understanding. She is now spreading the Dhamma to guide her students to an understanding of the three characteristics and the five khandas by way of the Satipatthana, sprinkled with the Brahmaviharas for a pleasant abiding, establishing them in the ultimate safety in the Blessed One’s dispensation.

She is a Cuban- American, fluent in Spanish and English and currently teaching in Cuba and Florida.