[3] At the age of seventeen, having been in contact with Buddhism through reading, he left for India, where he spent "a couple of years" travelling and learning before hitchhiking back to England.

In Asia he heard about an Englishman who had been a monk in the Thai Forest Tradition and was leading meditation retreats.

[4] After joining Ajahn Sumedho's community as an anagārika in 1978 he travelled to Thailand to ordain at Wat Nong Pah Pong in 1979.

[3] He received full ordination by Ajahn Chah in 1980[5] and was abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat from 1997 to 2002.

In 2017, Jayasāro published a biography of Ajahn Chah entitled Stillness Flowing.