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Heartwood & Academy Updates-North Carolina

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...

October 17, 2024

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Videos from the Office of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III

I just saw the following videos posted from the Office of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. I am sorry, but I have no English translation yet for the these, but from about minute 9:40 of the first video you will recognize...

February 27, 2023

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In Remembrance of the Life and Work of Ashin U Pannadipa, Thero (1940-2022)

Instead of a “memorial service”, Venerable Pannavati and others at the Heartwood Refuge in Hendersonville, North Carolina invited students and friends to visit Venerable Pannadipa the last few days before he left the...

May 21, 2022

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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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Listening to the Dharma In North Carolina

Sorry, I didn’t report last week on the wonderful trip I had to the Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center in North Carolina, but there was much to report and not enough time to do it justice. I went to help my...

June 9, 2019

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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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