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Ajahn Jayasaro (Shaun Chiverton) is a Theravada Buddhist monk in the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. He was the abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat from 1997 until 2002, and made a video biography of Ajahn Chah.

He was born on the Isle of Wight, England in 1958. He joined the Ajahn Chah tradition as an anagarika in 1978. In November of that year he went to Wat Pah Pong, and became a novice the following year. In 1980 he took full ordination under Ajahn Chah.

According to the Ho Center for Buddhist studies at Stanford, Ajahn Jayasaro is a key figure in the movement to bring Buddhist developmental principles to the Thai education system. In 2011, Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya University gave Ajahn Jayasaro an honorary doctorate in Buddhist Pedagogy. He now lives alone in a hermitage in Thailand.