Monastic Life / Interview: Going to the Other Shore
We interviewed Plum Village nuns and monks who have just received their full Bhikshuni/Bhikshu ordination in the recent transmission ceremony.
Monastic Life
Monastic Life / “New Year, New Me” – Tết in Plum Village (Part 1)
Plum Village is in the middle of celebrating Tet at this moment, in this two-part series, we explain some of the ways that we celebrate Tết or Lunar New Year in Plum Village. We see this occasion as a chance to deeply recognise our beloved one's presence.
Monastic Life / Chestnuts to warm up the sangha – an interview with new monastics
Soon after their ordination ceremony, the Plum Village website team interviewed our new "baby" brothers and sisters of the Chestnut Ordination Family.
Monastic Life / A Life Change
As we welcome the new novices of the Chestnut family into the Plum Village monastic sangha, elder brother, Brother Ngo Khong (Brother Freedom), abbot of Deer Park Monastery, recounts how he found his way to becoming a monk in the Plum Village tradition nearly ten years ago.