Wat Pah Nanachat

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Wat Pah Nanachat ( Thai : วัด ป่า นานาชาติ , German: “Internationales Waldkloster” or “Monastery of the Many Countries”) is a Buddhist temple ( Wat ) in the northeast region of Thailand , the so-called Isan . Wat Pah Nanachat belongs to the Thai forest tradition of Theravada - Buddhism on. It is located in the district ( Amphoe ) Warin Chamrap in the province of Ubon Ratchathani in Tambon Bung Wai.

Wat Pah Nanachat has achieved worldwide fame because it is one of the few training monasteries for bhikkhus in one of the ancestral countries of Theravada, in which English is also generally taught. It was founded in 1975 on the initiative of the venerable Ajahn Chah , who wanted to provide an appropriate framework for the increasing international interest (especially from Great Britain ) in the lifestyle of a forest monk of the Theravada tradition.

The first abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat was Ajahn Sumedho , an American bhikkhu , a close disciple of Ajahn Chah, who was trained by him at Wat Pah Pong - Wat Pah Nanachat's ancestral monastery.

Students of the monastery now live in newly founded monasteries and monastic communities around the world. These are loosely organized under the collective term of the so-called Forest Sangha. The largest monastery of this western community is the Amaravati Monastery , whose abbot is the honorable Ajahn Sumedho. It is about 50 km north of London.

Abbots

Book publications

  • Forest Path - talks, essays, poems, drawings and photographs from the community at Wat Pah Nanachat , Wat Pah Nanachat Community, 1999 (available on donation basis from the monastery address)

Web links

Coordinates: 15 ° 9 ′ 55 ″  N , 104 ° 46 ′ 34.5 ″  E