Jetavana
Temple Forest Monastery
What’s Happening:
Winter Retreat: January 6–March 31
The monastic community is observing our annual three-month winter retreat, from January until the end of March, 2025. During this time the monastery is always still open for people wishing to offer food or requisites at the 11 a.m. daily meal, or to sit quietly, or to join the morning and evening sitiings at 5 a.m. and 7 p.m.
The community will also continue to gather weekly for Evening Puja, Precepts, and a Dhamma Talk from 7–9 p.m. every Saturday evening throughout the retreat, and you are welcome to join in for this, as usual.
We will not be accepting overnight guests or responding to non-urgent enquiries until April. Emails to the Guest Monk in order to arrange overnight stays at the monastery will be answered from March 15 onwards.
Overnight stays will be accepted from April 2 onwards. There will be no Sunday Meditation Workshops until April.
Thank you for your support!
Visiting
Visitors are welcome, for day visits or (from April–December) for overnight stays.
Day visits >
Food offering >
Overnight stays >
How To Help / What’s Needed
You can find out more about what’s needed or useful – including a list of currently needed items – on the Contribute page.
Contribute >
Dana List >
Financial Questions
The monastery’s expenses and finances are handled by the non-profit organization Jeta Grove:
Jeta Grove >
Current Projects
In response to many of you who have been asking what the monastery currently needs or plans to help with its development, we have created a webpage listing the most immediate projects >
You can keep up to date with what’s happening on the News page or by joining our mailing list.