Suvira (Nisakorn Wanaphong) was born in Nakhon Sawan, north of Bangkok in Thailand. After graduating from Sri Nakharinwirot University, Phitsanuloke Campus, she moved to Phuket and worked there for 5 years in her family business resort and in a bank.  Then she moved to Bangkok and worked in a computer company.

After she attended a 10 day meditation retreat course lead by Upasika Khun Runjuan Indrakamhaeng and others in 1992, her perception of life had totally changed and deep interest in Dhamma practice became established in her.

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Caroline Leinster

Caroline Leinster has lived at Amaravati since 2005 and is now the librarian. Born in London in 1954, she moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in 1977 to study sociology and social policy.  After a career with urban voluntary organisations and training in psychosynthesis psychotherapy she decided she needed the support and challenges of living as part of a spiritual community 24 hours a day.  She is finding Amaravati provides her with what she was looking for. Caroline discovered vipassana at Harnham Monastery near Newcastle in 1987;  she is a Trustee of the Magga Bhavaka Trust, who are the lay stewards for Harnham. 

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