Tag - Bhikkhuni Pannavati

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Ven. Pannavati Establishes the Correct Cultivation Learning from Buddha Academy in North Carolina

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...

January 14, 2024

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Venerable Pannavati Bhikkhuni, MahaTheri.

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Meditation Summit-January 23-30, 2024

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...

January 14, 2024

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Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

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...

March 17, 2021

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International Women’s Day

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...

March 8, 2021

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Ven. Pannavati at Blessing of the Animals ceremony at the Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center, May 2019.

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Video of Ven. Pannavati and Dharma Voci Choir at the Heartwood Retreat and Refuge Center in North Carolina

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...

January 12, 2020

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Bhikkhuni Pannavati and others leaving the ordination ceremony.

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More Nun Ordination in Thailand

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...

January 13, 2019

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