Celebrating Sister Chan Khong’s Continuation
Today we celebrate the continuation day of our beloved elder Sister Chan Khong, (Sister True Emptiness)—founding member of the Order of Interbeing (Tiep Hien) and Plum Village.
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Photos / Lamp Transmission Ceremony 2026
From 20 - 27 March, 2026, the international multifold sangha gathered in Plum Village, France for a Lamp Transmission Ceremony week.
Sangha Stories / Not a Choice, a Current: a Homecoming through the TNH School of Interbeing
In this article, we hear from one of our newest Dharma teachers, Meena Srinivasan, whose journey of practice has led her to move into the lay community of Deer Park Monastery, helping to found the Thich Nhat Hanh School of Interbeing.
Monastic Life / “This Bitter Earth… may not be so bitter after all.”
In this article, we share some reflections by Brother Dinh Thanh about a recent pilgrimage in the footsteps of our beloved teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, in Vietnam.
Book Extract / How to Fight
In this article we feature wisdom from How to Fight, in which Thich Nhat Hanh offers practical guidance for meeting times of polarity, tension, and conflict with understanding and care, helping us to return to ourselves in order to restore peace in ourselves with one another.
Introducing Living Gems: the world’s largest collection of Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings.
The Plum Village community is delighted to launch Living Gems. After nearly three years of careful collecting, restoring, and organising Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings, the archive is ready to be shared with the world. In a time when our attention is pulled in many directions, it offers a place...
Sangha Stories / The Joy of Growing up in the Sangha
In this article, we hear from Wake Up veteran Elli Weisbaum, one of our tradition’s youngest lay Dharma teachers, who received the lamp transmission in March 2025.
The Wisdom of Winter: Stopping & Looking Deeply
Mick McEvoy of the Happy Farm and Plum Village Rewilding Project shares insights and offers simple, nourishing practices and reflections inspired by winter.
How Mindfulness Can Help Create a More Loving World
How can mindfulness practice support a more loving world? How can we cultivate resilience and mindful resistance in these times? In this article we share a recent panel discussion - between Brother Phap Huu, Sister True Dedication, Brother Spirit and climate leader Christiana Figueres.
Solid as a Mountain – Parallel Verses for the Year of the Horse
Plum Village offers these parallel verses to mark Tết, the Lunar New Year 2026.
Photos / Rains Retreat Closing Ceremony 2025-2026
The 90-day Rains Retreat 2025 - 2026 has concluded, marking a period of deep study, practice, and transformation for our beloved community.
Continuing Thay: Engaged Buddhism in the Plum Village Tradition
Honoring the life of our beloved teacher Thay, we explore the teachings of Engaged Buddhism in the Plum Village Tradition.
Volunteering: Generosity in Action
Our big retreats in Plum Village rely on the support of volunteers, another beautiful component of our multifold sangha and a clear reflection of our interbeing.
Photos / Christmas Holiday & New Year Retreats 2025-26
During the recent Christmas Holiday and New Year's retreats (20 December, 2025 - 3 January, 2026), we gathered as a multifold community to practice mindfulness and celebrate our togetherness.
Practicing with Plum Village at Home
As we begin 2026, we present the humble beginnings of Plum Village established by our beloved teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh; how we are currently continuing his vision; and our aspirations for the future in being a global spiritual refuge. This month, Plum Village is offering two special opportunities online,...
New Year Prayer to Our Ancestors
Dear Beloved Ancestors, both Spiritual and Genetic, We present ourselves before you at this solemn moment of the New Year to express our gratitude and deep aspiration as a spiritual family.
Finding Our True Home at Christmas
During this holiday season, we would like to offer an inspiring and timeless Christmas message given by our beloved teacher Thich Nhat Hanh in 2012 about finding our true home within.
Celebrating World Meditation Day
In this article, we share about the recent United Nations conference in which Plum Village participated for the advancement and celebration of World Meditation Day on the 21st of December.
Befriending Loneliness during the Holiday Season
In this article, we share an excerpt from a conversation from The Way Out is In Podcast about practicing mindfulness during the holiday season and Christmas time.
Monastic Life / Running: Another Way to Stop
In this reflection Sister Chan Trang Lam Hy shares about her practice of running in all kinds of weather as a new Dharma door.
Sangha Building / Sangha Fire-Building Sessions Around the World
Leading up to the June 2026 retreat celebrating sixty years of the Order of Interbeing (OI), founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in 1966, we warmly invite sanghas around the world to participate in "Fire-Building" sessions.
Photos / Willow Family — Novice Ordination Ceremony 2025
The Willow Family of eight novice monks and nuns ordained on 9 November in Plum Village France.
The Wisdom of Autumn: The Reality of Interbeing is Unsurpassed.
Mick McEvoy of the Plum Village Happy Farm shares his insights and offers simple, nourishing practices and reflections inspired by the autumn.
Monastic Life / Love, Transformation and Siblinghood
Sister Boi Nghiem, known as True Pearl, was ordained in 2005. This article features an excerpt from a heartfelt interview for the Plum Village Newsletter in which she explores siblinghood and the art of building true community, drawing from her experience on the monastic path.
Photos / 2025-26 Rains Retreat Opening Ceremony
On October 23, we formally opened the Plum Village Monastery Rains Retreat with the Face-to-Face Ceremony (Ceremony of Refuge) in Upper Hamlet with 249 practitioners (159 monastics and 90 lay friends), committing to practice dwelling peacefully together for 90 days.
New Book / How to Dream
In this new book How to Dream, Thich Nhat Hanh invites us to nurture the fire in our hearts — to dream deeply, and to bring those dreams into reality through mindful, compassionate action.
Photos / Cooking Retreat 2025 ~ Savor Life
From 26 September - 3 October, 2025, New Hamlet hosted our biannual Vegan Mindful Cooking Retreat with this year's theme: Savor Life. It was a week-long journey of mindfulness, global community, and culinary creativity.
Thay’s Continuation Day: A Moment of Gratitude
To celebrate the continuation of our beloved teacher, we are delighted to share these heartfelt reflections of gratitude and transformation, offered by lay friends, monastics, and Dharma teachers across our multi-fold Sangha.
In Loving Memory of Dharma Teacher Tho Ha Vinh
The Plum Village Community would like to express their deep gratitude and honor the life, teachings, and legacy of our beloved Dharma Teacher Tho Ha Vinh (True Great Understanding) in the wake of his passing on the 26th of September, 2025.
Engaged Buddhism / Lessons from Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet
You are warmly invited to join us as two new cohorts of the ZASP course will be starting soon: in English, 19 October - 7 December, 2025 & en Español, 24 Octubre - 12 Diciembre, 2025.