Updated Women in Buddhism; new FAQs
Finally added some substantive content to the Women in Buddhism page.
Added a few before-retreat questions in the FAQ
Added some more book downloads
A bit of cleanup here and there around the website.
Enjoy!
Added info to Books, Walking Meditation, About website, …
Added Tudong book by Ajahn Amaro on the Books page – https://www.kowthamcenter.org/resources/dhamma-books/#ajahn-amaro-tudong
Added Ajahn Amaro on the Teachers page – https://www.kowthamcenter.org/resources/dhamma-teachers/#ajahn-amaro
Expanded the “About this website” page – https://www.kowthamcenter.org/the-center/about-the-website/
Added more information to the Walking Meditation page – https://www.kowthamcenter.org/retreat/practices/walking/ ; the Breathing page – https://www.kowthamcenter.org/retreat/practices/breathing/ ; and the Principles page – https://www.kowthamcenter.org/retreat/principles/
Add Creative Commons License.
No October retreat
Very sorry for late notice: There will be no retreat in October.
Our lovely manager needs to take rest and take care of her health.
We send all healing to her, and hope to be back in November!
Please contact Tookata for more information.
Added metta quotes
Added some more explanation to the metta page, and also some nice quotes from Delia Kostner and Ajahn Sumedho.
Improved (i hope!) the Chanting page, and listed the chants for eventual pages and PDFs.
Added meditation info
Added a page for [drg_link link=/retreat/practices/walking/ title=”go to page for Walking meditation”]walking meditation[/drg_link].
Retreat dates: October will be 10 days, and in November there will be a 21-day retreat (for advanced meditators) as an extension of the 10-day — until 30th.
New quotes and books
Added quotes about love.
Refined the Books resources page, and added more dhamma books for download.
FAQ and meditation pages updated
“What is meditation?” question has been added to the FAQ page. The Meditation page has been reorganised a bit.
The Practices page has its own menu item, and more sub-pages added.
Some external resources added to all.
Hope this is useful — comments and corrections are cheerfully accepted!
Added info for Chanting and for Pali pronunciation
More information has been added to the page on Chanting.
https://www.kowthamcenter.org/retreat/practices/chanting/
A new page for Pali pronunciation has been added, to help with chanting.
https://www.kowthamcenter.org/retreat/practices/pronunciation/
Hope these are useful, and comments and corrections are cheerfully accepted!
Added island info on the Baan Tai page
Added information about Koh Phangan pronunciation, meaning, people, and animals, to the Being in Baan Tai page.
Dress Code page updated
The Dress Code page has been updated, hopefully now a little better organised and more nicely worded. And with a reference to Words of The Buddha regarding white clothes. Enjoy!