# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ajahn-sumedho
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:07:24.742Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ajahn-sumedho"
name: "Ajahn Sumedho"
slug: "ajahn-sumedho"
description: "Ajahn Sumedho is an American Buddhist monk. He was ordained in 1967, and was instrumental in establishing Wat Pa Nanachat in Thailand and the Cittaviveka and Amaravati monasteries in England. One of the most senior Western representatives of the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravāda Buddhism, Sumedho is considered a seminal figure in the transmission of the Buddha's teachings to the West."
tagline: "US Buddhist monk"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sumedho_Bhikkhu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1934-07-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.33449066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Ácsán Szumédhó"
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    title: "Ajahn Sumedho"
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    title: "Ajahn Sumedho"
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    title: "Ajahn Sumedho"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajahn_Sumedho"
    title: "Ajahn Sumedho"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump