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Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery, or Sītavana (Pali: "Cool Forest"), is a Theravada Buddhist monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition near Kamloops, British Columbia. It serves as a training centre for monastics and also a retreat facility for laypeople. Its abbot is Venerable Ajahn Soṇa.
Ajahn Sona is a first-wave Western Theravada ordained monk and the Abbot of Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery (‘Birken’). With over thirty years in the robes, he is now referred to as ‘Luang Por’ (‘Venerable Father’) by his closest disciples – a traditional honorific for senior monks of the Thai Forest Tradition.
Venerable Ajahn Sona serves as the monastery’s Abbot and senior monastic teacher. Born in Canada, with training in both the Sri Lankan and Thai forest traditions, Ajahn Sona’s teaching style weaves together ancient eastern wisdom with modern western sensibilities.
Birken Dhamma Resources: Your Online Monastery. Below you’ll find an extensive library of Theravada Dhamma resources, including video, audio, print, and digital teachings from Ajahn Sona, the Abbot of Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery, available for access anytime of day, wherever you may be.
24 lut 2021 · And here is Ajahn Sona, showing the way forward—not only physically with sustainable living but psychically with a new hope-filled paradigm for the Anthropocene. This new paradigm is, in fact, nothing new. It is the Dhamma expounded by Shakyamuni Buddha some 2,500 years ago.
Ajahn Sona - YouTube. This channel features various talks given by Venerable Ajahn Sona, the Abbot of Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery - a Canadian Theravada Buddhist monastery fo...
27 lut 2021 · Ajahn Sona, abbot of Birken Forest Monastery in British Columbia, Canada, offers Buddhist wisdom about how we work with some of the identities and priorities that can take up so much space and energy in our lives.
