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by PhiloDhamma
Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:25 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Age limit for entering monastic life?
Replies: 23
Views: 17511

Re: Age limit for entering monastic life?

Actually I am a man; I mentioned Aya Khema only because that is one example I know of where a person my age ordained in Sri Lanka. I know it is possible, that I would be accepted in SE Asia. For me it is mostly a question of the practicality of ordaining late in life. Aya Khema returned to the west ...
by PhiloDhamma
Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:35 pm
Forum: Ordination and Monastic Life
Topic: Age limit for entering monastic life?
Replies: 23
Views: 17511

Re: Age limit for entering monastic life?

I know that this thread is a little "stale," but I do have something to add to it--so far not mentioned by anyone else--so here goes. 1. I'm in Canada and I spoke to the Abbot of Birken Forest Monastery in Kamloops: Ajahn Sona, Thai Forest Tradtion. He informed me that as this monastery, t...
by PhiloDhamma
Wed Apr 07, 2010 9:48 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello
Replies: 4
Views: 1230

Hello

I'm happy to have come across this board and see the writings of so many serious practitioners. I myself am seriously considering going forth. I think about Sri Lanka. I've pretty much fulfilled my obligations to wife and kid. My daughter is almost 30 now and materially things would allow me to leav...