Dear friends of Buddha’s teachings, we wish you a successful start to 2021, health, love, inner peace and joy. In the words of Bhante Dhammadīpa: And above all, may we all become wiser and rid ourselves of unnecessary suffering.

Those interested in a long-term individual meditation option now have the opportunity to devote themselves to their practice at the Shanta Vana Buddhist center in Sněhov near Malá Skála. For this purpose, we managed to complete the reconstruction of the former woodshed.

An interesting portal dedicated not only to the Pali language is being created at the web address pali98.webnode.cz. This study portal is intended to serve all those interested in the Pali language, the canonical language of Theravada Buddhism.

On 8/24/2020 lay Buddhist teacher Dassana left human birth and died this morning at 7:10 AM in Malaysia (local time) at the age of 58. The cause of his death was internal organ failure caused by a serious infectious disease, the symptoms of which had been registered by Brother Dassana only a few weeks earlier.

It is with great sadness and pain in our hearts that we announce that in the early hours of the morning on Friday, July 3, 2020, our dear friend Pavel Lazecký from Studénka died quietly and painlessly in the Dhamma at the age of 51.

The course is led by Visu Teoh, who has been practicing Dhamma since 1982. He was born in Penang, Malaysia, originally worked as a journalist, then was a Theravada Buddhist monk for the next 17 years. He practiced meditation under the guidance of many important teachers such as Sayadaw U Pandita, Sayadaw U Lakhana or bhante Sujiva.

Bhante Ottama, senior Theravada Buddhist monk (bhikkhu) and member of the council of elders of the Theravada Buddhism religious society, will be staying in the Czech Republic and Slovakia from June to August.