Here is the process on how to become a monk in Sri Lanka.
Robes
Venerable Sunanda recently had his birthday. For his birthday, he decided to offer 100 shoulder cloths to various monks.
Alonzo Gaskill had read my previous article on Buddhist Robes and wanted to interview me for another Buddhist robes article.
Here are pictures about the natural dyeing process. The monks boil the ironwood tree bark chips for a long time (days). When a drop of dye is dropped in a glass of water, a ball will form and sink to the bottom. At that point, the dye master will empty that batch of dye into …
It occured to me that people don’t know one type of Buddhist monk from the other and a post was needed to explain this. First a little bit of history. Theravada is the closest thing as one can get to the original form of Buddhism and is based on the Pali texts. The countries that …
The Robes of Theravadan, Mahayanan, Tibetan Monks Read More »
Few people realize that the Theravāda monk’s robes are actually a piece of rectangular cloth with no sleeves.
Here is an instructional video on how to make a foot-rug from old and discarded monk’s robes. If you are a monk, perhaps you will be very interested in this. I made the video as I was making my very first rug. Ven. Khemavamsa is the one who helped in the end. It was his …