Vihāra
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Oct 31, 2026
Barry LappingGUEST
And there's some really lovely pictures of the two of them, and then even with Mataji when she came to India.
Barry LappingGUEST
When I did meet Manindra, just so you know, it was at the Burmese Vihara in Bodh Gaya.
Barry LappingGUEST
Manindra was living there at the time.
Barry LappingGUEST
And he actually wasn't there when I got there, but he came a couple of days later.
Barry LappingGUEST
And I remember the first time I met him, he came up to the meditation hall in the Burmese Vihara.
Barry LappingGUEST
And he said, my name is Manindra and I teach Vipassana meditation.
Barry LappingGUEST
And like all kinds of bells went off.
Corey GoldbergHOST
Great, great.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
He came to England with Ajahn Chah that year.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
He visited briefly in 76, but he came to the invitation of the English Sangha Trust to settle in the Hampstead Vihara in London on Haverstock Hill.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
And he hadn't taught very much in the West before.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
He'd been in America a little bit to visit and he'd been in England for a few days.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
And so when he started teaching in London on a regular basis, maybe a few of you were there at the Hampstead Vihara back in the old days.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
I was still a hairy student just down the road in London University at the time.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
I lived a mile away from the Hampstead Vihara while Lumpur Samheda and Lumpur Cha were there.
Ajahn AmaroHOST
I had no idea.
Dionne GinesNARRATOR
What are the five observances, or universal precepts, called the pañca-sila, which are imposed on the laity in general? Answer.
Dionne GinesNARRATOR
They are included in the following formula, which Buddhists repeat publicly at the Viharas .
Dionne GinesNARRATOR
I observe the precept to refrain from destroying the life of beings.
Dionne GinesNARRATOR
I observe the precept to refrain from stealing.
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Dionne GinesNARRATOR
Question.
Dionne GinesNARRATOR
Where do we see these colors represented? Answer.
Dionne GinesNARRATOR
In all Viharas, where there are painted images of the Buddha.
Dionne GinesNARRATOR
They are also seen in the stripes of the Buddhist flag, first made in Ceylon, but now widely adopted throughout Buddhist countries.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
I was staying in my mother's apartment, and every day in the evening I would just offer to give a talk wherever.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
And this one evening was at the London Buddhist Vihara.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
At that time, that was over in, uh, what was it? Uh, Heath-- not Heathfield Gardens.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
Yeah, Heathfield Gardens.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
Was it? Anyways, the old, uh, Sri Lankan Vihara.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
And I knew the area so well.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
I grew up there.
Ajahn BrahmHOST
So when I was walking to the Vihara, I was going down one of the lanes past one of these big housing estates, like tower blocks.
HelenUNKNOWN
Right.
Gil FronsdalHOST
And, uh, and, and I think the very first ones, there might not have been a place, but, uh, with time, there were Viharas.
Gil FronsdalHOST
In time, there were monasteries for them.
HelenUNKNOWN
Just like in Europe with the, with the Chri- in the Middle Ages for Christian women-
Bishal KarnaHOST
So-
Prajwal Ratna VajracharyaGUEST
It is have to be Vihara.
Prajwal Ratna VajracharyaGUEST
It is very private.
Prajwal Ratna VajracharyaGUEST
Only Vajracharya is allowed.
KoviloHOST
She co-founded the North American Bhikkhuni Associate- Associations, and hosted the first ever Theravada bhikkhuni sangha, uh, proceeding in the USA.
KoviloHOST
In 2013, Ayya founded the Charlotte Buddhist Vihara in her hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, where she continues to offer regular Dhamma programs.
KoviloHOST
So, um, I got to meet Ayya for the first time at the Metta Conference at Empty Cloud last spring, and I'd heard about you, Ayya, um, but just was, y- you know, some people know the term thera, which means elder, and we are usually referred to as monastics 10 years or more.
KoviloHOST
But a mahathera is someone with 20 years in robes.
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SudhammaGUEST
I've typically, uh, teach Wednesday mornings, Thursday evenings, and Saturday afternoons, uh, online and in person, and then a couple of other little things here and there in person.
SudhammaGUEST
You can find on meetup.com on my personal page there.
SudhammaGUEST
So if you go to my website, charlottebuddhistvihara.org, Vihara, V-I-H-A-R-A.
NisabhoHOST
Mm.
MārajināGUEST
And public transportation was cut off a couple of months ago.
MārajināGUEST
Um, it's become extremely, extremely difficult, uh, to the point where just we weren't receiving enough interest in visitors at the Vihara in Central Havana, which was started because it was central to everything, the bus route, everything, you know.
MārajināGUEST
They wanted us close, and then it started to, um...
MārajināGUEST
We opened actually the very same month that the new fuel embargo stuff started.
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MārajināGUEST
But we're just speaking about within Cuba.
Vincent MooreHOST
W- what has it been like, uh, h- helping this novice priest along? Like, uh, have there been some, uh, teachings or some things that, uh, you've been offering to them and that you've been receiving back from the novice priest about, like, you know, uh, not just, like, management, administrative things, and, like, making sure that things are running as, as best as possible given everything, but is there something also just, like, practice-wise that you have been discussing as of recent?
MārajināGUEST
Well, with this novice, who's a, who's an excellent practitioner, um, very disciplined practitioner, who's putting together, uh, not only the move from our Vihara to this new place, this...
MārajināGUEST
In the past few...
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Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Sanskrit is, uh, drsta dharma sukha vihara.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Vihara means dwelling, and sukha means, uh, happily.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is a very important teaching of the Buddha, but many of us, uh, forget.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
One day, the, m- the businessman, Anathapindika, came to see the Buddha with, uh, many hundreds of, uh, his friends who were also, uh, business, uh, people.
Ginger ClarksonGUEST
And Vihara means abode or a place to live.
Ginger ClarksonGUEST
Therefore, the best spiritual home for us to inhabit is the realm of the Brahma Viharas.
Ginger ClarksonGUEST
And Mudita is one of those Brahma Viharas.
Ginger ClarksonGUEST
Booker likened those divine abodes or Brahma Viharas to phases of the sun or the moon.
Ginger ClarksonGUEST
Metta, or loving kindness, is like the sun at high noon, shining, nurturing warmth on all sentient beings.
Ginger ClarksonGUEST
Mudita, which we'll practice tonight, sympathetic joy is like a sunrise bringing new light to the day.
Ginger ClarksonGUEST
Karuna, or compassion, is like a sunset gently holding in its spacious beauty the truth of suffering.
Ginger ClarksonGUEST
And Upeka, or equanimity, is like moonlight that beams indiscriminately on what is true.