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The Founding of Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery
Bodhi Tree Forest Monasteryand Retreat Centre was founded by Venerable Pannyavaro (Maha Thero) an Australian monk of over 25 years service in 2005.
Ordained in the Thai tradition, he spent many years studying and practicing in Burma and Sri Lanka. He is better known as the founder and webmaster of BuddhaNet.net and the Buddhist eLibrary.
Bodhi Tree Forest Monasteryand Retreat Centre was founded by Venerable Pannyavaro (Maha Thero) an Australian monk of over 25 years service in 2005.
Ordained in the Thai tradition, he spent many years studying and practicing in Burma and Sri Lanka. He is better known as the founder and webmaster of BuddhaNet.net and the Buddhist eLibrary.
Supportive Conditions
Supportive conditions for ordained and lay practitioners to undertake long term intensive meditation practice are hard to find in western countries. To assist people to penetrate the heart of the Buddha's teaching the Buddha Dharma Education Association is currently planning to built a meditation retreat complex on its land at Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery.
The Land
The land forms and tree cover at Bodhi Tree naturally divide the land making it easy for different activities to coexist here. From two streams with beautiful rock pools the land rises to a large flat plateau. There is a good balance of cleared and forested land with many impressive old trees, the creek valleys have plenty of flat and gently sloping areas. The plateau of 15 acres of rich red soil has expansive and uplifting views and is a natural choice for the Retreat Centre.
Retreat Centre
The Bodhi Tree Retreat Centre is for holding weekend, 10-day
and longer teaching retreats for the local, national and international
community. There is a great need for these facilities in Australia. We
attract many visitors from Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Sydney to our
weekend programs and 10-day retreats. Australia is a vast country and
there are no Theravada meditation centres north of Sydney.
Bush Regeneration Project at Bodhi TreeIn 2006-2007, using the Envirofund, the Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery has been able to plant approximately 1,500 rain forest tree along our creek and rock pool. Since then we have extended our bush regeneration and revegitation project over the past four years and have now planted over 4,000 local rain forest trees and plants, which are now thriving!
click here to see the slide show of our forest regeneration project.
click here for a slide showof photographs of Bodhi Tree Monastery & Retreat Centre.
Buddhanet.net
BuddhaNet.Net now has a home base at Bodhi Tree Monastery. Ven Pannyavaro pioneered a Buddhist presence on the Internet as the founder and webmaster of BuddhaNet.net since 1992. We have also establish the World Buddhist Directory database and the Buddhist eLibrary. We plan a BuddhaNet Multimedia centre and library on the land to facilitate the work of developing educational resources and transferring print, audio and multimedia resources into digital formats for the World Buddhist eLibrary.
BuddhaNet.Net now has a home base at Bodhi Tree Monastery. Ven Pannyavaro pioneered a Buddhist presence on the Internet as the founder and webmaster of BuddhaNet.net since 1992. We have also establish the World Buddhist Directory database and the Buddhist eLibrary. We plan a BuddhaNet Multimedia centre and library on the land to facilitate the work of developing educational resources and transferring print, audio and multimedia resources into digital formats for the World Buddhist eLibrary.
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