Samanera Visuddhi
This Saturday saw the transformation of Shramanera Dogat into a Theravada Samanera (novice) at a Pabbajja ceremony attended by his family and numerous Chinese/Malaysian friends up from London. Ajahn Munindo presided over the evening's proceedings giving many inspiring exhortations and reflections. Having began his monastic life in Hong Kong as a Mahayana Shramanera, and having completed a 6 month probationary period here at Harnham, he now takes his place in the community as Samanera Visuddhi.
Sunday's Wesak was attended by about a hundred supporters willing to brave the showers. The event went very smoothly with many hands helping on all fronts, and plenty of sunshine in between the showers.
On Wednesday a group of Prison Chaplains were brought to the monastery by Kath Jones as part of their inter-faith program. For most of the week Mame, Maureen and Sugert have been working in the various conservatories on the many plants and shrubs, and today the community has been loading a skip full of building rubble and rubbish to clear the car park and create another couple of parking spaces.
