Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia teaches within the Thai Forest Tradition, specifically the disciples of Ajahn Chah. She has served as a Core Faculty member at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and as resident teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. Taraniya is also a Lay Buddhist Minister in association with Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California and has been a Dhamma teacher since 1990. She co-authored Older and Wiser: Classical Buddhist Teachings on Aging, Sickness, and Death and she has written numerous articles for the Insight Journal of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies