You have been asking me about what is happening with Pannavati and everyone at Heartwood in North Carolina. She tells me they are ok and just sent this newsletter update that includes some links for more. They were...
Ven. Pannavati at a jungle monastery in Thailand in 2009. Venerable Pannavati Karuna, MahaTheri, the abbot of the Heartwood Refuge Monastery has also founded the Correct Cultivation Learning from Buddha Academy in...
Venerable Pannavati Karuna Bhikkhuni, MahaTheri, founder of the Heartwood Refuge and the Correct Cultivation Learning from Buddha Academy in Hendersonville, North Carolina, has sent an invitation to an “Art of...
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center. The Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center has a new video featuring an original song by its Co-Founder, Ven. Pannavati called “Sanctuary” that gives a very nice insight to...
Zoom Version of OWABA Ceremony. The top half is the Certificate and flowers being offered to a proxy in North Carolina and the bottom is me on zoom in Sanger, California. I was honored today to receive one of the...
Bhikshunni Pannavati, Co-founder of the Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center and much more, in Hendersonville, North Carolina brings her own style of music to her dharma talks and engages her local sangha in music as a...
It is illegal for women to take full ordination as a Bhikkhuni (Buddhist nun) in Thailand due to a 1928 law. Monks who have tried to ordain women have been ejected from the Thai sangha and even imprisoned. There does...