Beautiful inspiring photographs. Thank you for posting this. Nice looking robes.
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If this is actually the case then I stand corrected, especially since I believe you are a senior Thai monastic if I remember correctly and would know this first hand. Thank you Venerable for taking the time to post. /\In any case the practice in Thailand is that the name a monk is given at his ordination is always in the nominative case. This is true of all monks and doesn't indicate anything at all about a monk's status. The only thing different about Ven. Jayasāro, Amaro, etc. is that they use their Pali names all the time, which is a peculiarity of the Ajahn Chah tradition. The general practice in Thailand is that monks use their lay name prefixed by Phra or Tan.
I am responding to Ven Gavesako's post here - "Having these titles gives the Western Ajahn Chah community a certain autonomy within the Thai Sangha and the freedom to do things in the West without being too restricted by bureaucracy. For example, getting permission for Thai monks to travel abroad and live in Western monasteries (which is not so easy). Three of the senior monks, except for Ajahn Jayasaro, were already preceptors before, so monks ordained by them would be recognized as such by the Thai Sangha and given official ID documents."Please explain more. What exactly were/are the "restrictions"? Thank you.
hence why I say there is no true western sangha yet. I forgot where I had heard it from but I believe a senior monastic once said " Buddhism will not fully take root in a country until it has local(of that country) monastics supported by local people. This is the case in some small pockets here and there, but as I said its still quite early.My impression is the bulk of the donations required to build & operate the Ajahn Chah Western monasteries came/comes from the culture of the "home countries".
Thank you for the kind words friend, I'm glad what I've done has been of some benefit.I would just like to say, it is great to hear from you Bikkhu Jayasara, I am new to dhamma wheel but have been following you on YouTube and Facebook and always enjoy your posts.
I’m sure the monasteries have to pay a certain lip service to the ‘home country’ but there must be some autonomy there(?)
What you were saying reminded me of Ajahn Brahm in Perth and his monastery which got ‘ex communicated’ from the Ajahn Chah tradition.
Could this, with the re establishment of the Bikkhuni order, be the start of a truly autonomous western sangha?
Please forgive me for anything I have misunderstood, I do realise my insight into these matters is very limited. Hope you are well bhante
Ajahn Khemadhammo has been awarded an OBE
https://foresthermitage.org.uk/about/th ... hermitage/Venerable Ajahn Khemadhammo (Chao Khun Bhavanaviteht) OBE was born in England in 1944. After training and practising as a professional actor for some years, in 1971 he travelled to Thailand via the Buddhist holy places in India. In December 1971 in Bangkok he became a novice and about a month later moved to Ubon to stay with Ajahn Chah at Wat Nong Pah Pong. On the day before Vesakha Puja of that year, 1972, he received upasampada as a bhikkhu. In HM the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2003 he was appointed an OBE for services to prisoners and the following year at HM the King of Thailand’s birthday in December he was made a Chao Khun with the title, Phra Bhavanaviteht.
What I like to know is whether this practice is in accordance with the Buddha's teaching.I never anticipated that this thread would be so interesting ...
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