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Donation Usage

We highly appreciate your generosity. Your donations have been supporting:

  • Construction of Sima hall, sayadaw’s Kuti, meditation hall, residential quarter, roads, bridges and water resources.
    • Construction Phase I: entrance bridge rebuilt & roads re-serviced in summer 2017. Well re-serviced in 2017 & 2018.
    • Construction Phase II: Three-seasons Meditation Hall completed in May 2018.
    • Construction Phase III: Residential quarter will be established in near future. It
      will consist of 8 units and 3 septic tanks which can support 8 rest rooms. After the construction completed, yogis can have room with private bath for meditation retreats. Each unit will cost $45,000.
    • Four seasons Meditation Hall will be built in the future.
  • Maintenance of Sima hall, sayadaw’s Kuti, meditation hall, residential quarter, roads, bridges and water resources.
  • Daily operating and event expenses for the monastery

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PATVH Georgia 2018 Theravada Sīmā Setting & Activities

Pa-Auk Tawya Vipassanadhura Hermitage Georgia has yet to establish a valid Sīmā. In order to continue our lineage and build a good foundation in North America, Our Sangha committee decided to establish a Sīmā to perform Kamma and other Buddhist ceremonies for the Buddhist community in the future. Sīmā (boundary) defines the space or building where Sangha can meet and held ceremonies, ordination, rain retreat (vassa) etc. Sīmā is essential for the Sangha, because it is a prerequisite for the valid performance of each ecclesiastical act (Kamma) of the Buddhist community. The invalidity of Sīmā, therefore, implies the invalidity of the Upasampada (higher ordination, acceptance as Bhikkhu).

【 Sīmā Setting 】

In June, 2018, we will invite Sangha from Pa Auk Monastery at Myanmar and Malaysia to attend the Sīmā Setting ceremony. The Sangha must select and appoint a boundary (sīmā sammuti) for a place to perform Kamma. The Sīmā Setting ceremony is detailed and careful, and need to be attended by several Bhikkhus from the Sangha. It is a rare opportunity for the Sīmā Setting ceremony to happen outside of Burma. We sincerely invite Dhamma friends to come and witness this solemn ceremony.

Sima hall setting preparation is scheduled to be performed between June 8 and 16, 2018

Sima hall setting ceremony will be on June 17 (Sunday) , 2018

【Event Details】

  • June 2018, Sīmā Setting（June 8-June 17, 2018） Dhamma teachers from Pa Auk Monastery in Myanmar & Malaysia plan to come to perform the Sīmā Setting ceremony on June 17, 2018. The preparation work starts from June 8, 2018.活動報名
  • Smoky Mountain Meditation retreats with more than 10 Bhikkhus 6/18-25, 2018活動報名
  • Sangha teachers from Pa Auk Monastery will come to the US to teach Dhamma in June and July 2018.
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Ven. U Buddharakkhita

Ven. U Buddharakkhita – Born on 1971 in Penang, Malaysia. He ordained as a bhikkhu in 2009 under The Most Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw, began to train under Ven. U Mangala.

The Venerable attended the 6-month intensive retreat in 2010 led by The Most Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw in Pa Auk Tawya Forest Monestary at Maylemine, Myanmar. Under the Sayadaw’s guidance, Ven. Buddharakkhita completed the Samatha and Vipassana course of the Buddha outlined by the Visuddhimagga.

The Venerable is fluent in both english and chinese and is currently assistant teacher to Ven. U Kañcana in Tusita Hermitage (Kuching), teaching meditation to monks, nuns and laity.

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2018 喬州帕奧襌林: 入出息念襌十四

Pa Auk Tawya VipassanaDhura Hermitage, Georgia:

Fourteen-Day Anapanasati Meditation Retreat

Teacher導師: 吉祥尊者 Venerable U Mangala

Sponsor 主辦 : America Dhamma Society (ADS) 美洲法學會

Time 時間: February 10-23, 2018 (check-in 5:00-6:00PM February 9, check-out 2PM February 23)

Place 地點： America Dhamma Society, 1975 Old Flat Branch Rd. Ellijay GA 30540

Teaching 開示：Decoding Anapanasati 解密入出息念.

Meditation method 禪修方法：Anapanasati 入出息念

Language in teachings 語言: Chinese & English

Tuition 費用: Free (Donations are welcome and appreciated)

Register at http://americadhammasociety.org/

Contact: Shan 770-355-9221 or Janice 818 653-6883

Email：americadhammasociety@gmail.com

請自備蓋脚巾/坐墊和睡袋，備有早午齋結緣，全程參加優先，徵法工

Please bring your own meditation towel/mat & sleeping bag, serve Breakfast & lunch. All participants will stay overnights at ADS Center during the retreat. Volunteers wanted.

吉祥尊者（Ven. U Mangala）—— 一位具有宏願悲心的上座部行者。1968年出生於馬來西亞。1996年依止帕奧西亞多禪師為戒師出家受具足戒。2006年起成為帕奧禪林的業處導師。2008年成立了兜率天修行林。至今，尊者在馬來西亞、中國大陸、臺灣、新加坡、印尼、美國等地指導止觀禪法與佛法講座。

Bhante U Mangala was born in Malacca, Malaysia in 1968. In 1996, he was ordained as a bhikkhu in Pa Auk Forest Monastery in Mawlamyine, taking Venerable Pa-Auk Sayadawgyi as his Precepter. In 2006, Pa-Auk Sayadawgyi appointed Bhante as a meditation teacher in Pa Auk Forest Monastery. Bhante established Tusita Hermitage and served the local and overseas Buddha Sasana with his team since 2008.