Saturday, Nov 1, 2025 10:30 am We lost our friend and longtime supporter, Thanit Klangprapan, on Sunday, Oct 12. On Saturday, Nov 1, we will celebrate Nit’s life and passing with her family. Please feel free to join us for this occasion. We will start with the traditional meal offering for the monastic community, followed by a ceremony honoring Nit’s life.
You are welcome to join the Abhayagiri sangha for this year’s Kathina ceremony on Sunday, October 12. Everyone is warmly welcome. The schedule for the day is: 9:30am - Arrive at the Monastery 10:30am - Meal Offering 1:00pm - Kathina Ceremony and Dhamma Talk Each year since the time of the Buddha, at the end of the three‑month Rains Retreat, the lay community around Buddhist monasteries have gather…
I’m sure that everyone here can find some things to feel glad about. Even if there are not very many things, we can make much of the few, rather than pushing them to one side, saying, ‘No, they don’t really count; that’s nothing really – but look at all these terrible faults I have!’ We are very good at doing that – but how good are we at looking at the goodness, the beauty of our lives? Everyone here can count the fact that they’ve chosen to come to the monastery, that there is a sincere interest in cultivating peace as something to feel very glad about – particularly seeing how many people a…
Ajahn Pasanno spent Kathina weekend at Chithurst and hosted a Q&A session on October 11, the day before Kathina.
