As we approach Thầy’s 95th birthday this week, we would like to share with our international community how Thầy and our sangha at Từ Hiếu Temple in Huế, Vietnam have been doing.
We are pleased to announce the release of a new book of Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings on collective awakening.
There are many different ways that Thich Nhat Hanh’s more than 100 books have come to be.
In the first of a 3-part series, Thich Nhat Hanh gives guidance on how to approach the 90-day Rains Retreat.
An interview with Sister Annabel, editor and translator of a new book of Thich Nhat Hanh's teachings, Enjoying the Ultimate
e book Happy Teachers Change the World, Thich Nhat Hanh explains the potential impact of teachers and students learning mindfulness.
How do we connect with nature? Can nature help us to be mindful or handle our suffering? Three members of the Plum Village monastic community share their personal experiences.
Thich Nhat Hanh's continuation day (birthday) is on October 11. This year, he turns 95. To express our gratitude for his incredible contributions, we humbly invite you to practice and share about caring for Mother Earth through deep listening.
On September 9 we formally opened the Plum Village Monastery Rains Retreat with the Face-to-Face Ceremony at Upper Hamlet.
Enjoy more mindfulness practice poems (gathas) to help you bring calm and peace into your daily life.
Brother Dong Tri shares how he healed his relationship with his mother during the Rose Ceremony in Plum Village, 2021.
Translation and commentary of another of Thich Nhat Hanh's meditation hall Zen poems.
What do the monks and nuns at Plum Village Monastery do when they experience difficult emotions?
Translations and commentary of Thich Nhat Hanh's meditation hall Zen poems.
On 8 August 2021, the Rose Ceremony was organized at Plum Village in France. The tradition of wearing roses to remember the kindness and love of our parents started in Plum Village during the Summer Retreat in 1983.
Three monastic brothers from Plum Village Monastery in France undertook a pilgrimage to visit Sanghas on foot.
We are looking for a new team for the “Happy Farm” of Lower Hamlet for the year 2022! The Happy Farm is a place where we grow food for the community and practice mindfulness together. The Happy Farm is a regenerative agriculture and permaculture project. We explore what it...
What do our parents mean to us? Can we see our parents’ presence in ourselves today? What role has their love, their presence, and their absence played in our lives? Join us for a Rose Ceremony, 8 Aug, 3pm, live streamed from Plum Village.
This is a story that Siddhartha Gautama, popularly known as the Buddha, told the first time to children when he had just founded a Great Way, the Path of Awareness. Please enjoy an excerpt of it from the book Old Path White Cloud. Siddhartha quietly gestured for the children...
Sangha life is very vivid with many activities. During the past week, there was a Sikshamana precept transmission, a path renovated by monastic brothers and an online mindfulness day for families of monastics. We would like to share with you some photos of these events. Sikshamana Transmission Ceremony In Buddhist tradition,...
In this letter to children from 1987, Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) recounts a story about really appreciating the beauty in natural objects like leaves and pebbles.
During a typical summer, Plum Village hosts hundreds of families that come with their children to practice mindfulness. We invite you to enjoy a selection of Plum Village practices created especially for children.
In May and June, Plum Village had three online retreats with a lot of joy, happiness and transformation.
Brother Pham Hanh shares his personal story of healing burnout and trauma.
Lily Tolat offers us an account of the recent retreat for lay long term residents of Plum Village, France.
In Plum Village, France, we have three hamlets – Upper Hamlet for brothers, Lower Hamlet and New Hamlet for sisters. Each hamlet is beautiful and spacious. In order to keep the hamlet beautiful and tidy, we gather once a month at a hamlet for a day community work where...
Beginning Anew is a key Plum Village practice for maintaining healthy relationships and healing difficult relationships. We are happy to offer you a short video explaining Beginning Anew.
We offer you some short verses or gathas to print at home to support your mindfulness practice.
We are happy to launch an online store to allow people to buy books, bells, calligraphies and other items to support their mindfulness practice. It's starting slowly though, by selling plums.
We would like to invite you to listen to “Thanh Thuy’s Apple juice”, a lovely story written by Thich Nhat Hanh in the book “The Sun My Heart”. This reading can be like a friend that is there for you as you are on the bus or subway, when...
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