Amaravati

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here are some pictures from my trip to Amaravati
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Great shots Manapa!
Looks like an amazing monastery.
Thank you for sharing.
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What a beautiful place! Thanks for posting those.
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Hi Manapa,

Thank you for sharing the photos. I spent a day at Amaravati in the summer and I really liked it there, it was very peaceful.

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Thank you for sharing your impressions. Nice pictures :thumbsup:
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Thank you Manapa. For those who may not know the story the Sangha have taken a former Social Services childrens home and made it a place of great peace and beauty. For the benefit of anyone who lives in or is visiting the UK it is near Hemel Hempstead.

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Sanghamitta wrote:Thank you Manapa. For those who may not know the story the Sangha have taken a former Social Services childrens home and made it a place of great peace and beauty. For the benefit of anyone who lives in or is visiting the UK it is near Hemel Hempstead.

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I think you may find it was a school house
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But one I think run as a special needs boarding centre by Social Services I think Manapa. :smile:

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Sanghamitta wrote:But one I think run as a special needs boarding centre by Social Services I think Manapa. :smile:

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possibly I have never heard that Before though.
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It was what I was told by one of the monks when Amaravati first opened..Of course he might have been wrong.
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this is what I found on Wiki couldm=nt see any info on the site

Amaravati was created in 1984 when the English Sangha Trust purchased a residential school (previously an army base) from Buckinghamshire
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Im sure that you would agree that it is a place of peace and beauty whatever its origin..
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3 weeks no slappy fights
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More photoes posted at the first link of the nuns send off to US
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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