Generally it is recommended to new candidates to relinquish control over their funds, e.g. by handing them over to a relative, in case they choose to leave the robes within the first few years (which is quite common). In that case they would have something to fall back on rather than expect the mona...

A United Nations agency has recognised two prominent Thai monks as “important figures” in promoting world peace. They are the late Somdet Phra Mahasamanachao Kromphraya Wachiryanawarorot, the 10th Supreme Patriarch, and Ajarn Mun Bhuridatta, who established the Thai forest monastery tradition, which...

Notice the European-style architecture of the Bangkok temple in which the meeting took place. The relationship of the Catholic church with Thailand has a long history.

The Pope receives a copy of Phra Malai manuscript as a gift in Bangkok. They have probably chosen this text because it also talks about heaven and hell and good and bad karma, and how beings can be saved through intervention from above (Phra Malai going down to visit hell and those beings are saved ...

Putting on a bhikkhu's robes should not be done lightly: (b) The Commentary contains a long discussion on the question of what it means to take affiliation by theft. It distinguishes three kinds of theft: theft of status (putting on robes without the authorization of the Community), theft of affilia...

Good to hear Thai support and appreciate the effort western teachers do in spreading Buddhism. Would theses titles give them some privileges? Would they be able to serve as upajjhaya so that the ordinations they perform are recognized by the Thai government? Or was it already so before? Having thes...

1564485359181.jpg In this interview with Tricycle magazine Ajahn Pasanno describes the forest monks' attitude to receiving honours: Thai King Bestows High Honor on Western Buddhists One of the four Thai Forest monks granted a royal title explains the significance of this ceremony in Thailand and th...

For a historical study of 'manager monks' see Managing Monks: Administrators and Administrative Roles in Indian Buddhist Monasticism Book by Jonathan A. Silk https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/Buddhism/Oxford%20University%20Press%20Managing%20Monks%2C%20Administrators%20and%20Administrative%20Roles%20i...

The Monks of White Salmon

https://projects.columbian.com/2019/05/ ... te-salmon/

Nice article with photographs about Pacific Hermitage in White Salmon, USA

Petra Kieffer-Pülz, "Extra canonical Parittas: The Jinapañjara The Jinapañjara, one of the extra canonical paritta texts of the Theravāda tradition, is transmitted in slightly deviating recensions in Thailand, Burma and Sri Lanka. In the present contribution I edit the text according to all th...

We live until we "time out"...



IN TIME - Running out of merit

https://sites.google.com/site/gavesako/ ... t-of-merit

Ajahn Viradhammo talking at Wat Pa Pong about his memories of living in Ajahn Chah's monastery and the team spirit among the monks there, also about the Buddhist culture and the lay people who supported their commitment to practise hard:

Stored-up Food : A Discussion of Pācittiya 38 , by Khematto Bhikkhu. (revised & expanded October 4, 2017) This essay, which includes the relevant Pāli along with its English translation, addresses the issue of whether the Vinaya allows monks to eat food reoffered on a subsequent day. -- The aut...

There are also two books translated by Paul Breiter and published by Shambhala which, for copyright reasons, could not be included in the collected teachings book. They are called "Being Dharma" and "Everything Arises, Everything Falls Away". https://www.shambhala.com/being-dharm...