Posts Tagged ‘monks’

After giving our bodies a good workout with the morning bike ride on Saturday, Megan and I gave our minds a good workout with an afternoon meditation at Wat Sokpaluang. Although I can barely maneuver the motorbike with just me on it, I nervously drove the two of us the short distance to the temple. [...]

My sister and I have spent the last few days exploring Luang Prabang, Laos. I keep thinking to myself, “Dorothy, you’re not in Vientiane anymore.” Where is the omnipresent dust? Where are the deafening motorbikes and tuktuks? Where is the hustle and bustle? OK, there’s really not much “hustle and bustle” in Vientiane, but there’s [...]

I’m cheating a little bit with this Wat ‘O’ the Week post. I actually visited this temple on the same day I went to Wat Phia Wat with Catherine. We had hoped to visit with a monk she knew here, but unfortunately, we were told that he had gone to the States to study for [...]

If I smell a little ripe today, it’s because: (a) we can’t seem to figure out our bedroom A/C unit, so we wake up repeatedly during the night either in a pool of sweat or frozen solid, and (b) we had no water this morning. Our helpful new night guard, Beng, fixed the water pump [...]

Samye Monastery In order for a monastery to be a monastery, it must have three things: holy statues, scriptures and monks. The Samye Monastery, founded in 775, was the first in Tibet to have all three. Located across the Brahmaputra River from the city, the monastery was a little tricky to find. We checked out [...]