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An interesting book is about to be published, if you help support its printing. As part of the crowdfunding campaign (at https://bit.ly/SupportMindfulness) you can support the publication of the book “Mindfulness: what they haven’t told you yet”, which the author is František Lomský, who, among other things, has been active for many years in the Buddhist association Buddha Mangala.

Below you can watch the English-language transcripts of the International Buddhist Conference held online on March 5-6, 2021. The topic was tisikkha/trishiksha (three teachings) according to the Pali and Sanskrit traditions. Bhante Dhammadípa also participated in the conference as the only representative for the Czech Republic (second day in the section dedicated to samadhi).

Yesterday, on February 8, 2020, after a long and serious illness, Juraj Porubský left this earthly world. Juraj was a great supporter of Buddhism, among his greatest merits is the establishment of the Buddhist meditation center Javorie, whose operation he subsequently financed

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.

Today is Vesak (in Pali Vésakha), the most important holiday of Theravada Buddhism, which always falls on the first full moon in May. On this day, the birth of the Buddha, his awakening and departure to parinibbana are simultaneously commemorated.