In this brief youtube video, Ajahn Keng a Singaporean monk relates a visit by a deva while he was staying in north Thailand.

For example, if your plan is to spend most of your time doing Goenka-style meditation, then that would effectively rule out all the monasteries where some other meditation system is taught and insisted upon. As there aren't (afaik) any monasteries where Goenka meditation is the main practice, you'd...

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Some are stunning, others....well, out of this world.
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I don't see any issue with this. Although monks and nuns usually live in separate monasteries, it is quite common where monks and nuns happen to be at the same temple to give talks, for dana, retreats etc. They just need to avoid intentionally touching a person of the opposite sex or being in a room...

The prophecy may be correct. Mahayana schools started around 500 years after Parinibbana. The once pure teachings became tainted at that point in time.

What if you include the ten-day Buddhists undergoing Goenka retreats at any one time?

All forms of Buddhism that is not the relatively homogeneous Theravada is classified under Mahayana, including the sub-school of Vajrayana. Some Mahayana sects have monks who keep Vinaya, some sects particularly in Japan have monks who do not live under Vinaya and so better referred to as priests. T...

I read that Dr Charoon sometimes lead kasina retreats in Europe (Estonia, to be exact).
https://www.sangha.ee/about-us/teachers

Buddhist societies regularly conduct group pilgrimage tours. Contact them to inquire. If you're coming from the US, you could arrange to meet them in India.

The Irish Buddhist The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down the British Empire Alicia Turner, Laurence Cox, and Brian Bocking Oxford University Press (2020) The Irish Buddhist is the biography of an extraordinary Irish emigrant, sailor, and migrant worker who became a Buddhist monk and anti-colonial activi...

S. N. Goenka: Emissary of Insight Daniel Stuart Shambhala (2020) An eagerly anticipated biography of S. N. Goenka--one of the most influential meditation masters of the twentieth century. In a life that saw him evolve from a staunchly religious Hindu to an ecumenical master of Buddhist insight medit...

Having pets is not too different from having a mentally challenged child. If you have a mentally challenged daughter and you cannot stop her from being sexually active, would you not compel her to have some sort of birth control?

I have similar concerns for Nina Van Gorkom's books- she is 92. they are in print and online. And availble for free download at many websites . But most of these websites are kept by individuals ( mine for instance). The only one I know of that "looks" potentially long term is this one. see example...

A few years ago , I raised funding to print and distribute thousands of his book "Good Question Good Answer" in Khmer (Cambodian), Vietnamese, Chinese, Nepali, Hindi, Lao and Assamese (an indian language) . They were very popular with the public .