Pa Auk Forest Monastery

Categories: Meditation Centers | Myanmar

From Buddhist Encyclopedia

Pa Auk Forest Monastery emphasis on the teaching and practice of both Samatha (tranquility) and Vipassana (insight) meditation. The monastery provides a conducive setting for the practice of long-term, intensive meditation. Presently, there are over 100 foreign meditators, originating from over 20 countries, residing in the monastery.

Info

Location :

• In the forest along the Taung Nyo Mountain range in Mon State, Myanmar

Abbot :

• Pa Auk Sayadaw

Teaching

• Mindfulness-of-Breathing (Anapanasati) - to develop absorption concentration (the four jhànas)
• Most of the 40 Samatha subjects taught by The Buddha - including loving-kindness (mettà) meditation, the thirty-two parts of the body, the ten kasiõas and the four immaterial jhànas
• Four-Elements Meditation - to analyze ultimate materiality and ultimate mentality
• Dependent Origination - to discern past, present and future lives by analyzing their causes and conditions
• Vipassana Meditation - to discern the five aggregates (materiality and mentality) as impermanent, subject to suffering and without a self

Training

• Training and separate accommodations for monks, nuns and male/female lay practitioners.
• Strong support and guidance for those who wish to ordain.
• Regular interviews with qualified meditation teachers (who speak English).
• Vegetarian diet, including both white and whole-grain brown rice.

Facilities

• A large meditation hall for men and a separate meditation hall for women.
• Over 280 kutis (single meditator huts), many located in secluded areas of the forest.
• A clinic and a sick-bay with doctors trained in both conventional Western and traditional Burmese herbal medicine
• A large new library with titles in English, Chinese, Burmese and Pali

External links

• Pa Auk Forest Monastery (Official U.S. web site)
• Pa Auk Forest Monastery (Official Singapore web site)