I hope this isn't an important reason for you.James the Giant wrote: So, why choose that particular monastery?
There are meditation monks with jhanas and attainments, etc. You don't tend to see too much of them.
Reason being that it was one of the main reasons I chose a particular monastery in Sri Lanka and later an important reason why I changed monasteries and the same reason I became disillusioned in both cases. You just cannot put your eggs in this basket because inevitably you may turn out to be wrong. There's no guarantee anyone at Bodhinyana has attainments, and every time I hear a lay person declare it with utmost confidence I cringe a little. Maybe some of them have got Jhanas, I think that much is inferable. But there's no such thing as an educated guess when it comes to whether someone is an Ariya.
Other than that, much mudita
Thoughts will be with you
metta
Jack