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The Most Venerable Girimananda Mahathera (Indarath Chakma) is the founder & abbot and principal teacher of Girimānanda Dhammā Sāsana Trust and Girimananda Forest Meditation Centre, Gandachara, Tripura, India. The most Venerable Girimananda Mahathera (Indarath Chakma) was born in 1975, and Mahathera was ordained as a novice monk (sāmaṇera) at age 20 (Twenty). He studied the Pāli Texts under various teachers and various Monasteries while still a novice and after few months Mahathera received higher ordination as a Bhikkhu. He continued his studies of Pāli Texts under learned elder monks, in various Monasteries. In 2014, Mahathera intensified his meditation practice and began to practice “forest dwelling” in Myanmar. While, he continued with his studies of Pāli Texts and inside vipassana meditation and investigation into the Dhamma, and he has practiced vipassana meditation whole-heartedly about four and half years in Myanmar at various forest monasteries and he has received many meditation certificates. The most venerable Girimananda Mahathera has taught vipassana meditation (Kammaṭṭhānācariya) in Australia and Vietnam more than four years and visited various places and monasteries and countries. He can speaks in English, Bengali, Hindi, Chakma, and Chittagong language etc.