About a trip to Cambodia to deliver relics to a shrine room and also see Angkor Wat. It was a profound experience.
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Recently, we received six new tables arranged by a monk’s two donors. Why was this so special and part of Buddhist culture? (read more).
Here I will share some experiences of living as a monk in Myanmar during the covid pandemic and the government change that happened recently.
How doe they make walk-in refrigerators in Myanmar Monasteries?
When we give water to the Bodhi Tree, it is not uncommon to give pure bottled drinking water to it.
Now the world is getting used to COVID-19 and many countries are announcing a new policy called “Living with COVID”. Now we are too. I will explain.
In 2005 I made a video called, “Knowing and Seeing Pa-Auk Forest Monastery.” This is about the Pa-Auk Main Branch in Mawlamyine. Sayadawgyi was young back then and used to climb the stairs to his mountain kuti twice per day. I will miss that. The title was meant to play with the name of Sayadawgyi’s …
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Today is my 21 anniversary for when I first got ordained as a monk on February 7th, 2001. As you know there was …
Rainy Season is luckily my favorite and I love all five months of it. Excerpt from Going For Broke: Monasterynote5: Walkman Karaoke, 2004
Pa-Auk finally vaccinated 2000 of its residents across its branch monasteries with a privately sponsored SinoPharm vaccine.