Guests stay at Dhammapala to deepen their Buddhist practice

Everything you see within the monastery we owe to generous donations. We therefore kindly ask you to handle items consciously and carefully.

Please maintain an overall tidyness, especially in those places, which are used communally. Please keep your room tidy and use your own towels, sheets, duvet covers and pillow cases. In rare exceptions such items can be borrowed from the monastery. Please do not bring any sleeping bags along!

On your departure, please clean your room thoroughly, take borrowed linen to the scullery, empty the rubbish bin, replace the plastic liner inside the bin, close the windows and turn down the heating.

We generally expect your cooperation, especially with the daily cleaning chores, with the cooking and washing up and with small work projects during the mornings. If you notice that something is in need of repair or has to be replaced somewhere, then please inform the guest monk.

If you need to smoke, then please do it outside the building and a short distance away from the monastery, so that you don’t bother other people. Smoking inside the building – as well as with open windows or on the balcony – is strictly prohibited! Because of an extremly high fire risk in an entirely wooden building, candles and incense should only be lit in the communal areas in the basement and in the meditation room on the third floor –  under no circumstances in the bedrooms! Please familiarise yourself with the emergency exits and have a look at the maps on the inside of your bedroom door.

Please note also, that talking, telephoning and the playing of audio devices in your bedroom might disturb your neighbour. Should you have to leave your room late at night, please move around gently and carefully within our poorly soundproofed house, so that you will not disturb the night rest of the other guests.