Wat Nong Pah Pong - Buddhist forest monastery

[Eva Libre]

 

Wat Nong Pah Pong

 

 

 

 

Wat Nong Pah Pong is a Buddhist forest monastery located in the province of Ubon Rachathani, in the North-East of Thailand. It was established by Venerable Ajahn Chah Subhaddo in 1954 so that monks, nuns and laypeople would have a place to study and practice the Teachings of the Buddha under Ajahn Chah's guidance. It aims at helping practitioners realize the end of suffering, and in its teachings focuses on methods such as being content with little, letting go, and putting forth right effort, so that students might attain the Path and the Fruit of practice, and realize Nibbana. It teaches and guides its monks and novices to acquire good habits of body and mind through following and practicing the Dhamma and Vinaya (Buddhist Teachings and Monastic Discipline). This will help cultivate deep internal realizations and lead to a strengthening of the presence of the Teachings of the Buddha in the world, benefitting current and future generations of both Thai and international practitioners.

 

 

'The Mindful Way'

 

 

 

A documentary about Ajahn Chah and Wat Nong Pah Pong

 

[Iona]

To support this monastery is  controversial. In the last 2 years the WNPP elders  have cast out members of their fraternity. Australian based monks who demonstrated support and enabled the full ordination of women in the forest tradition were cut off from this place, and its community, which formerly was their home. If you believe enlightenment is independent of sex,  support of this institution would be a contradiction.  there is extensive  background in the blog, the second link

http://groups.google.com/group/dhammadharini

http://sujato.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/wat-pa-pong-press-conference/

[Béatrice LATEUR LACROIX]

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[Nada Jung]

Being a monk or a nun doesn't mean anything if you don't practice. If you really understand the practice of Dhamma, then no matter what position or profession you hold in life, you can practice the Dhamma every minute of the day.

[Nada Jung]

Only listen to Dhamma talks and not practice, is know the way but not walk that way to experience the way by yourself.