Saturday, January 10, 2009

             

      01:00pm               Dhamma Talks in English by Phra Thanissaro Bhikkhu ( Geoffrey DeGraff )

    - 02:30pm               (session 1)

      04:00pm               Dhamma Talks in English by Phra Thanissaro Bhikkhu ( Geoffrey DeGraff )

    - 05:30pm              (session 2)

                      

      

      

       06:00pm8 Precepts Observance (77 people)

06:30pmChanting by everyone

07:00pmChanting by monks to bring blessing to Luong Pawh Petch

07:30pmBuddists offer specialty items to the monks

        Monks anumothana (blessing) lay people

08:00pmSermon by monks from various Buddhist monasteries

Sunday, January 11, 2000

10:00amChanting by everyone

10:30amMonks chant Chaya Mongkol

        Food offering by the lay people to the monks in their alms-bowl

11:00amBuddhists offer “Money-tree” (Pah-pa) Samakee

                                      (Fund raising for  building the Mahachedi Buddhagaya (Pagoda)

        Luncheon for the monks

        Monks anumothana (blessing) lay people

11:30amLay people chant

12:00pmCongregation luncheon

01:00pm       Luong Pawh Petch’s Birthday Ceremony

       01:30pm       Construction Grand Opening of the Mahachedi Buddhagaya Ceremony

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AT A GLANCE:

Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff) (1949 - )

is an American Buddhist monk of the Thai forest kammatthana tradition. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1971 with a degree in European Intellectual History, he traveled to Thailand, where he studied meditation under Ajaan Fuang Jotiko, himself a student of the late Ajaan Lee.[1] He was ordained in 1976 and lived at Wat Dhammasathit, where he remained following his teacher's death in 1986. In 1991 he traveled to the hills of San Diego County, U.S., where he helped Ajaan Suwat Suwaco establish Wat Mettavanaram (Metta Forest Monastery). He was made abbot of the monastery in 1993. His long list of publications includes translations from the Thai, Ajaan Lee's meditation manuals; Handful of Leaves, a four-volume anthology of sutta translations; The Buddhist Monastic Code, a two-volume reference handbook for monks; Wings to Awakening; and (as co-author) the college-level textbook, Buddhist Religions: A Historical Introduction.

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