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Updated 17 April, 2018

Contacting Me

If you encounter problems, please visit my Mirror Site, or contact me if the problems persist.

New-moon Day Meditation

Saturday 28th April 2018

The schedule is 7:00 am to 7:00 pm. If you cannot get here until 8:00 or 9:00 am, that’s fine, but please send me an email to let me know that you intend to come, as I have limited space.

If you have no previous experience of the Mahāsi meditation method, please read the short booklets recommended on the Retreats Page.

Calendar 2018

Download this PDF (1.52 Mbytes) to make your own calendar. It shows the observance days (uposatha), one-day retreats, and sunrise times at the beginning of each month.

• The Buddhist year is currently 2561. The Buddhist Year of 2,562 begins on the Full-moon day of Vesākha in April 2018.
• First light, the earliest time to offer almsfood, is approximately one hour before sunrise.
• British Summer Time (BST) changes to Greenwich Time (GMT) at 1:00am on Sun, 28th October, 2018.
• My free hosting service is now subject to a daily down-time of one to four hours, which I have set to start at 1:00 pm. If you try to visit at those times, you will see a message that the site is sleeping. Please bookmark the link to my mirror site, and use that instead. It is very rarely offline.

Recent Changes

(Most Recent First)

• Updated archives on the Home Page (17-4-2018)
• Updated A Manual of Nutriment (17-4-2018)
• Updated An Exposition of the Metta Sutta (4-4-2018)
• Updated An Exposition of the Maṅgala Sutta (28-3-2018)
• Added the Vasala Sutta (12-3-2018)
• Added the Parābhava Sutta (7-3-2018)
• Added the Kasibhāradvāja Sutta (4-3-2018)
• Added the Mettānisaṃsā Sutta (28-2-2018)
• Added the Pabbajita Abhiṇha Sutta (26-2-2018)
• Added the Upāli Sutta (26-2-2018)
• Added the Sīhanāda Sutta (25-2-2018)
• Added the Taṇhāmūlaka Sutta (21-2-2018)
• Added the Velāma Sutta (20-2-2018)
• Added the Sutavā Sutta and Sajjha Sutta (19-2-2018)
• Updated my Vivaldi Blog with several articles (15-2-2018)
• Added the Gotamī Sutta (15-2-2018)
• Added the Bala Sutta (14-2-2018)
• Added the Sedaka Sutta (13-2-2018)
• Added the Sīha Sutta (13-2-2018)

Please let me know if you find any errors. I can only fix what I know about.