Venerable ajahn chah monastery definition
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Ajahn Chah
Biography
Venerable Ajahn Chah was born on June 17, 1918 in a small village near the town of Ubon Ratchathani, North-East Thailand. After finishing his basic schooling, he spent three years as a novice before returning to lay life to help his parents on the farm. At the age of twenty, however, he decided to resume monastic life, and on April 26, 1939 he received upasampadā (bhikkhu ordination). Ajahn Chah’s early monastic life followed a traditional pattern, of studying Buddhist teachings and the Pali scriptural language. In his fifth year his father fell seriously ill and died, a blunt reminder of the frailty and precariousness of human life. It caused him to think deeply about life’s real purpose, for although he had studied extensively and gained some proficiency in Pali, he seemed no nearer to a personal understanding of the end of suffering. Feelings of disenchantment set in, and finally, in 1946 he abandoned his studies and set off on mendicant p
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Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah
Mahanikai monastic organization
The Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah is a Mahanikai monastic organization in the Thai Forest Tradition composed of the students of Ajahn Chah Subhaddo. Strictly speaking, the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah denotes the institutions who have a branch affiliation with Wat Pah Pong, the administrative center of the organization.[3]
History
[edit]Ajahn Chah's early training
[edit]Ajahn Jayasāro relates that while many Mahanikai monks would reordain in the Dhammayut order as an act of devotion to Ajahn Mun, a handful of other followers of Ajahn Mun would choose to stay Mahanikai monks.[4]
Luang Por Thongrat
[edit]Ajahn Jayasaro relates that Ajahn Thongrat was considered "Zen Like", in the sense that he was very "Vigorous and outspoken — and outrageous — in his behaviour. Which of course in Thai monastic idiom, where etiquette and good behavior is so stressed, it quite made him stand out."& • In 1998, Venerable Ajahn Anan and Venerable Ajahn Kalyano were invited to teach meditation in a number of different venues in Australia. During the visit to Melbourne they met Bee Lian Soo who, out of faith in the Triple Gem and a wish to have a forest monastery in Victoria, initiated the search to purchase a forested property suitable for a monastery. In September 2000, Bee Lian Soo, Jeffrey Tan and members of the Soo family set up the Victoria Sangha Association with the aim to purchase and manage the land for the forest monastery. After several months, the committee members funnen a suitable forested property of 75 acres situated on the edge of the Yarra Ranges National Park in East Warburton, 80km east of huvud Melbourne. tillsammans, the founding members of the Victoria Sangha Association purchased the property which subsequently became the site for Buddha Bodhivana Monastery. Jeffrey Tan, the President of the Victoria Sangha Association and Bee Lian Soo travelled to Thailand a