Ajahn Brahm (Brahmavamso Mahathera) (August 7, 1951) is the current abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery and the spiritual director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. He ordained at age 23 and he spent the next nine years studying and training in the forest meditation tradition under Venerable Ajahn Chah. In 1983, he was asked to assist in establishing a forest monastery near Perth, Western Australia.
Whilst still in his years as a junior monk, he was asked to undertake the compilation of an English-language guide to the Buddhist monastic code – the Vinaya – which later became the basis for monastic discipline in many Theravadan monasteries in Western countries.