Samanadipa Forest Buddhist Monastery
The Income Tax Act allows taxpayers in Slovenia to decide for themselves to whom they will allocate up to 1.0% of the assessed income tax, which the state of Slovenia allocates to finance non-profit institutions. Taxpayers can therefore divert part of the income tax, which in any case is taken by the state and does …
Danny from Delaware leaves his life in the US behind and joins the community at Samaṇadīpa for a year.
For several months Asu has supported the community at Samaṇadīpa Monastery and has now taken on the one-year anagārika training.
Anagārika Aleks has requested the ‘going forth’ and continues his life at Samaṇadīpa Forest Monastery as sāmaṇera Nandako.
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 …
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.
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 …
New book: The Only Way to Jhāna by Ajahn Nyanamoli Read More »
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 …
Ajahn Nyanamoli becomes the Acting Guardian (the abbot) of Samanadipa Read More »
The Kaṭhina Ceremony takes place once a year after the completion of the three-month rains-retreat (vassa) of Buddhist monks, which begins on the Full Moon Day of July and lasts till the Full Moon Day of October. Kathina time is a special occasion for many reasons. For the monks, Kathina reminds them of GRATITUDE: Gratitude …
On October 10, the Congregation of Monks approved the amendment of our Consitution. The change was necessary, as the old act prevented the establishment of constituent parts, the possibility of nuns living in Samanadipa, and obtaining visas for volunteers. The importance of the permission to establish the constituent parts is so that we can establish …