About the website
The intent of this website is to give information about the Khao Tham Insight Meditation Center and the retreats it offers, along with some general information about our associated monastery Wat Khao Tham and about Buddhism itself.
We are also making an attempt to provide information about Buddhism concepts, the Thai Forest Tradition, and teachers and teachings in that tradition as well as those with similar outlook (such as Thich Nhat Hahn for example).
Everything on this website is provided in the spirit of the Dhamma, and is free to be shared and used by anyone.
All pages on the website are listed in the navigation menu at the top ↑ In addition you can search the website through a safe and secure search engine↓
The latest schedule and contact information is on every page, ←in the left sidebar on desktop or large tablet, or ↓near the bottom on mobile.
There may be way more information on this page (or anywhere on the website!) than you want to know. That is OK — you don’t have to read it. 🙂 Just “take what you like, and leave the rest.” We have tried to structure the website so that the most important things are at the top levels, and anyone can drill down if they want more.
Privacy and security
Just like crossing the road, ultimately your Internet safety depends on you. Nevertheless, as with the road, there are things that the Internet/Web builder can do to help. All efforts are made to protect your information and your computer while using this website.
Please go to the Privacy and security page for more information about this subject.
English spelling (transliteration) of Thai words
Q: Thai “ภูเขา” “mountain” is transliterated normally as “khao” — why is it spelled “Kow Tham“?
A: There is so far no universally-applied method for transcribing Thai into the Latin alphabet. Official standards are the Royal Thai General System of Transcription (RTGS), published by the Royal Institute of Thailand (More info here), and we are trying to follow that now, especially since it makes search and automatic translation more accurate.
Features
- Glossary
A page describing some common words related to Buddhism is provided on this site, with links to more extensive glossaries elsewhere.
On a desktop or laptop, you can roll your mouse over words that look like this and a pop-up will display a definition for that word. On tablet or phone, it will depend on the browser — on some you can press and hold, and see the pop-up. If not, you can tap the link to go to the definition. - Translations
are available on all pages, from a menu in the top bar next to the navigation menu. We don’t have any control over how words or phrases are translated — it is all done by an automatic translation program at Google. So it is provided as something helpful, not perfect.
If you would like a language added to the translation menu, that is easy. Please contact the site admin and let us know!
Use and License
This website is dedicated to helping to spread the dhamma. All access and materials are provided freely and with no restriction, at no cost. All sources that are linked to, provide their materials at no cost.
The original content on the website is copyleft 🄯 Khao Tham Insight Meditation Center.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
The Tech
The website is developed and maintained with the WordPress CMS, a lot of good plugins, and some custom coding. All code is open source and available for anyone.
Website feedback
Your input is very welcome to help us know how this website can best serve you. You can leave a comment here, for the public to read as well as the site admin, or you can leave a private message for the site admin at the contact form.
Website support
If you would like to help with content for this website, we can always use suggestions, design ideas, content, photos, images! Contact the site admin here.
If you would like to help the website technically … the build and coding is pretty much a one-man show, that would probably cause your eyeballs to fall out if we tried to share it. 🙂
Web development and maintenance is done as dāna by a long-time (26-years!) professional web developer. Web hosting is provided by the same. There is no funding for this website or the web developer. If you would like to support the website monetarily, you can contact the developer here.
Thank you.
— (james) (walker) (balo) (webwalker)
[[ Webmaster and Chief leaf raker, Khao Tham Center
[[ Cyberwallah to Tibet and Thai dhamma
