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    • Background
    • Tradition
    • Arrival in the west
    • Ajahn Chah
    • Community Members
    • Contact
      • Getting There
    • Links
      • Other monasteries
      • Meditation centers
      • Further contacts
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    • Events
      • All Events
      • Meditation weekends
      • Monastic retreats
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Dhammapala is a small monastic community and a place of spiritual training within the tradition of early Buddhism (Theravada)

Our monastery offers the opportunity for meditative practice and its resident community is part of an extended family of several monasteries worldwide, all who follow the example of the Thai Forest Tradition. The main inspirational figure behind all our communities is the late meditation master Ajahn Chah.
As a Buddhist monastery Dhammapala is primarily a dwelling place for monks (Bhikkhus), male novices (Samaneras) and postulants (Anagarikas). Also we regularly host Buddhist nuns (Bhikkhunis and Siladharas) as short- or long-term guests.

Senior monks and visiting nuns regularly lead formal meditation retreats at the monastery. In between these retreat periods guests and visitors are welcome to participate within the daily structure of the monastery, if they are willing to live according to the monastic rules and to take part in the communal activities.

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Tradition
The monastic lineage behind Dhammapala Monastery belongs to a branch of the Southern school of Buddhism, originally known as the Sthaviras (Sanskrit) or Theras (Pali), which was then later called the Theravada school.Read more
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Arrival in the west
In 1977 Ajahn Chah visited London on the invitation of a Buddhist organization (English Sangha Trust), which had been trying with varying success since the 1950s, to establish a permanent residence for Buddhist monks in England.Read more
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Ajahn Chah
Venerable Ajahn Chah often pointed out to his disciples, that the Buddha was born in a forest, gained awakening in a forest and also died in a forest. Ajahn Chah followed, almost his entire adult life, a particular style of practice, which is now known as the Thai Forest Tradition.Read more
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Members of the Community
The resident community of the monastery consists usually of four to six monks, one or two novices (Anagarika) and a secretary.Current members
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Contact
The easiest way of reaching us is by e-mail.

 

Phone calls are only received during restricted times. For urgent messages you can leave a message on the answer phone, which is checked on a daily basis .Contact and directions

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Links
On the collective website www.forestsangha.org you will find the sites of the official branch monasteries, which are inspired by the teachings and example of Ajahn Chah..More links
  • Kloster Dhammapala
  • Bütschelsstrasse 74
  • CH-3718 Kandersteg
  • +41 33 675 21 00
  • info@dhammapala.ch

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  • Home
  • About us
    • Background
    • Tradition
    • Arrival in the west
    • Ajahn Chah
    • Community Members
    • Contact
      • Getting There
    • Links
      • Other monasteries
      • Meditation centers
      • Further contacts
  • News & Events
    • Calendar
    • Events
      • All Events
      • Meditation weekends
      • Monastic retreats
    • News
  • Visiting
    • The Eight Precepts
    • General behaviour
    • Daily routine
  • Dhamma
    • Audio talks
    • Other resources
  • Support
  • Deutschgermany_flag-35