The Most Venerable Girimananda Mahathera is the founder abbot and principal teacher of Girimānanda Dhammā Sāsana Trust and Girimananda International Meditation Centre, Gandachara, Tripura, India. The most venerable Girimananda Mahathera is born in 1975, the Mahathera was ordained as a novice monk (sāmaṇera) at age 20 (Twenty). He studied the Pāli Texts under various teachers and various Monastery while still a novice and after few months the Mahathera received higher ordination as a bhikkhu. He continued his studies of Pāli Texts under learned elder monks, in various Monasteries. In 2014, the Mahathera intensified his meditation practice and began to practise "forest dwelling" in Myanmar. While he continued with his studies of the Pāli Texts and inside vipassana meditation and investigation into the Dhamma, and he has practiced vipassana meditation heartedly about five and half years in Myanmar at various forest monasteries and he has gotten 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 English, Bengali, Hindi, Chakma etc.