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Newsletter – March 2023

It has been many months since our last newsletter, and many things have happened in the meantime. In mid-November, Bhante Sihacitto went to Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sancturary, Malaysia, to study and experience different styles of monastic life. Shortly after we welcomed Bhante Chris Viccagaro, who came to us all the way from Australia for a few …

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Offering Food at 8.30 am

From today onwards the community will be eating one meal a day that is offered at 8.30am. If you wish to bring a cooked dana for the monks you can still do that at 11am but with a PRIOR NOTICE (via email or call) so that we can adjust accordingly on that day.

New book: The Only Way to Jhāna by Ajahn Nyanamoli

Meditation according the early Suttas This book offers a practical guide on how virtue and sense restraint, paired with ‘concurrent attention’, result in what the Buddha described as jhāna meditation or an experience elevated from any obstructive states. The early Suttas explicitly repeat that the only way to this purification is through the taming of …

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Ajahn Nyanamoli becomes the Acting Guardian (the abbot) of Samanadipa

On Sunday, 11th December, Ajahn Hiriko temporarily stepped down as the General Guardian of Samanadipa Monastery to have a break from this responsible position. Ajahn Nyanamoli kindly agreed to step in as the Acting General Guardian. Biography He was born in Smederevo, Serbia, in 1983. He took anagārika precepts in UK in 2005, sāmaṇera ordination …

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