10th Anniversary – Sunday, May 25, 2025
/Please join us for the weekend of May 24–25 to celebrate the passage of ten years since the monastery was formally established in June 2015. Everyone’s welcome to any part of the weekend. The main event will include a traditional offering ceremony (“Pa Bah”), Dhamma Talk in Thai and translated into English offered by Luang Por Liem (the abbot of Ajahn Chah’s monastery in Thailand), and a few presentations by others, and meeting the resident and visiting monks. This will constitute the main anniversary celebration and will take place from about 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 25.
In addition, we plan to provide an opportunity on the afternoon of Saturday, May 24 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., which will focus on introducing the monastery and its aims and activities to local people as well as anyone else who may be interested, including a Q&A with the abbots and some of the visiting senior western monks, and a tour of some of the buildings, grounds, and forest.
Details are still being confirmed, but we expect senior monastic visitors including Luang Por Liem, Luang Por Jundee, Ajahn Sawaeng, Ajahn Seksan, and Ajahn Moshe from Thailand, Luang Por Viradhammo and Luang Por Sucitto from Canada and the UK, and Ajahn Nyaniko from Abhayagiri. Everyone’s welcome – we hope to see you here if you can make it.