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Dear Supporters of the Dhammadipa Foundation,

allow us to thank you most sincerely for your contributions and donations, even though we know that you do not expect our thanks, that the impetus for your activities is a selfless desire to contribute to the creation of favorable conditions of Being.

The program of Dhammadipa Foundation is to create a meditation center Shanta Vana (the forest of tranquility) whose visitors would learn to understand the transcendence of this world and the resulting laws, and thus the possibilities to help.

Thanks to the donors who accepted this goal of the Foundation for their own. Two houses (upper cottage and former forestry) and a plot for a meditation garden intended for the construction of a new meditation hall were obtained. Both houses have been renovated and equipped for accommodation. However, it is only possible to use rainwater in the former forestry – the drinking water well will be realized in the middle of the year. The cultivation of houses surroundings and gardens is in the final stage.

In addition to your donations, the Foundation also seeks support from state in the field of the environment. The project ‚Planting trees‘ has already been completed – within the framework of the action ‚We plant 10 million trees‘. Applications were also made under the Landscape Management Program and the Rainwater Program (rainwater accumulation for garden watering).

We will continue to raise funds not only from you but also from the state support.

Construction of the hall, borehole for drinking water incl. matching accessories, wood storage shed, sewage treatment plant, other Santa Vana equipment – all of this is yet to come.

Dear donors,

Thanks again for your generosity! We continue to rely on your support! We hope to meet you at Shanta Vana soon!

Metta!

Chinese medicine, herbs, excercise

Thank you our friend Tzuyi Hsu (Shinko), who stayed in Shanta Vana for a long time and taught us qiqong at Bhante courses. She has been studying Chinese medicine and other healing modalities for many years. Now we are happy to share with you a link to the Facebook page where she posts information that may help us to walk on the spiritual path.

Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/AcuLight-Holistic-Health-Center-103187745115229

AcuLight Holistic Health Center

An introduction into the Abhidharma study

Theme: Comparative Study of Northern and Southern Abhidharma Traditions
Date: 2.23. – 4.12.  2020
Place: Centre of Buddhist Studies, The University of Hong Kong (buddhism.hku.hk)

Text for the lectures : purelandassembly.org (below the video) or pdf download

Audio: Download or Archive.org

Video: Pureland Assembly or Archive.org

We thank The University of Hong Kong (buddhism.hku.hk) and Pureland Assembly (purelandassembly.org) for their kindness and for sharing these great lectures.

The Buddhist Psychology of Awakening: An In-Depth Guide to Abhidharma

This practical overview of Buddhist psychology outlines step-by-step methods for examining the source of our habitual tendencies and hangups. In order to truly free ourselves from perpetuating patterns of suffering, the Buddha offered a clear system for understanding our psychological dispositions, processes, fixations, and challenges–a system known as the Abhidharma. This tradition has been studied by Buddhists for over two millennia. 
 
Professor Steven Goodman has taught on the Abhidharma in both universities and Buddhist retreats for over twenty years, making these traditional teachings accessible for a modern readership for the first time. Goodman explains how becoming aware of our mental patterns can liberate us from cycles of emotional pain and shows how the Abhidharma can be applied to meditation practice through exercises of observation and reflection. This is the go-to manual for anyone interested in the world of Buddhist psychology.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Buddhist-Psychology-Awakening-Depth-Abhisharma/dp/1559394226

The Buddhist Analysis of Matter

In The Buddhist Analysis of Matter, renowned scholar Y. Karunadasa interprets the Buddhist view of matter as presented in Theravada Buddhism, based on the Abhidhamma. His comprehensive work draws on both the earlier period containing the seven manuals of the Abhidhamma Pitaka and the later period containing Abhidhammic commentaries, sub-commentaries, and such compendiums as the Abhidhammatthasangaha of Acariya Anuruddha.

In order to bring the subject into a wider perspective, and for more precision, Karunadasa considers the (non-Theravada) Vaibhasika and Sautrantika schools of Buddhism—two of the leading non-Mahayana schools with whom the Theravadins had much in common, both of which subscribed to a realistic view of existence—as well as later sources such as the post-canonical commentaries and related literary sources of Theravada Buddhism. 

This book gives us the first clear picture of the Buddhist analysis of matter as such. Earlier works on this subject have tended to focus on the broad philosophical implications arising from the Buddhist theory of matter and were based more on earlier sources, such as the Pali canonical texts. The Buddhist Analysis of Matter provides a much-needed micro view of the topic with a detailed examination of the Theravadins’ list of rupa-dammas—the ultimate irreducible factors into which material existence is analyzed. It exposes the basic material elements into which the whole of material existence is resolved and explains their interconnection and interdependence on the basis of conditional relations. It concludes with an understanding of the nature and relevance of the Buddhist analysis of matter in the context of Buddhism as a religion.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Buddhist-Analysis-Matter-Y-Karunadasa/dp/1614294518

2020

5. – 12.11. – Nosen Yoga, Norway

     – more information: here
     – samatha meditation
     – the course is currently full

2. – 11.10. – Shanta Vana, Czech

     – more information: here
     – Bhante will lecture in Czech language 

20. – 24.9. – Centrum Long, Zaježová, Slovakia

     – more information: here
     – Bhante will lecture in Czech language

17.9 – 20.9. – Wangdenling, Nová Bošáca, Slovakia

      – more information: here
      – Bhante will lecture in Czech language

12. – 19.9. – Deer Park Institute, Bir, India

     – Canceled

25.8 – 3.9. – Shakya College, Nepal

      – Canceled 

10.7. – 17.7.  Nosen, Norway

        – theme:  Samatha

        – more information here

18.6. – 28.6.  Allgau, Germany

        – theme:  Samatha and Vipassana according Yogacara tradition

        – more information here

26.5. – 31.5.  Zaježová, Slovakia

        – theme:  4 brahmaviharas + interpretation of chapter 6 of Sandhinirmocana sutra

        – Bhante will teach in Czech language

        – more information here

Teaching at the HK University one semester – Hong Kong

        – 16.1. – 30.04. 2020
        – more information here

Pure-land Assembly day retreats – Hong Kong

題⽬目: 以淨⼟土法⾨門修四無量量⼼心
內容: 講經及禪修(請法師寫)
主講: 性空法師
時間: 上午9:00-17:00 (Lunch and afternoon tea included)
第⼀一講: 2 ⽉月29號星期六
第⼆二講: 3⽉月2號星期⼀一
第三講: 3⽉月16號星期⼀一
第四講: 3⽉月29號星期⽇日
第五講: 4⽉月6號星期⼀一
第六講: 4⽉月20號星期⼀一

Address: Flat F-G, 2/F Shun Fat Building7 Kik Yeung Road, Yuen Longn.t., Hong Kong
Enquiries: (852) 2476 7730 info@purelandassembly.org

Kadoorie centre Easter holiday retreat – Hong Kong
April 9-13

Address: Lam Kam Road, Shek Kong, Yuen Long, N. T., Hong Kong.
Phone: (852) 2488 5000. Fax: (852) 2488 5285. E-mail: kcbook@hku.hk.
Enquiries: 3917-5078  hkucbs@hku.hk 

The Teaching of Abhidharma at HKU – Hong Kong Feb 20, 27
Mar 5, 12, 19, 26
Apr 2, 9, 16, 23   Thursday nights (referred in the list below) )6:30-9:30pm (Due to Wu Han virus no class til 17/2, please check for further information through the university)— MBS teaching at HKU   Address: The University of Hong Kong CPD4.0 , Pokfulam, Hong Kong Tel:(852) 2859 2111. Fax: (852) 2858 2549.

Tze Shan Monastery retreat – Tai Po Mar 20-24   Registration needed Address: 88 Universal Gate Rd, Tai Po
Telephone no.: 2123 – 8666  

Importance of theory for practice that liberates the mind – Hong Kong Feb 23, Mar 8, 14   Open lecture HKU 3-5pm Address: Wang Gungwu Lecture Hall, Graduate House, The University of Hong Kong
Enquiries: 3917-5078  hkucbs@hku.hk

27.12. – 12.1. 2020 – Taiwan, more information here.  

Více zde: https://www.dhammadipa.cz/en/events/