<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/feed/content/farang.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-06-07T19:30:24+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/feed/content/farang.xml</id><title type="html">The Open Buddhist University | Content | Foreigners in Thailand</title><subtitle>A website dedicated to providing free, online courses and bibliographies in Buddhist Studies. </subtitle><author><name>Khemarato Bhikkhu</name><uri>https://twitter.com/buddhistuni</uri></author><entry><title type="html">Bhikkhuni Community Building</title><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/essays/community-building_chandako" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Bhikkhuni Community Building" /><published>2022-10-08T19:37:45+07:00</published><updated>2024-09-24T14:48:08+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/essays/community-building_chandako</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/essays/community-building_chandako"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <p>So far the Bhikkhuni Sangha has mainly been comprised of individuals scattered here and there with no consistent standard. They have had to be very strong people in order to get where they are, but the next step is to take these strong individuals and form a community.</p>
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<p>An interview with a monk from the Ajahn Chah lineage on what it will take for the Bhikkhuni Saṅgha to thrive in the West.</p>]]></content><author><name>Ajahn Chandako</name><uri>https://buddhistuniversity.net/authors/chandako</uri></author><category term="essays" /><category term="form" /><category term="farang" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[So far the Bhikkhuni Sangha has mainly been comprised of individuals scattered here and there with no consistent standard. They have had to be very strong people in order to get where they are, but the next step is to take these strong individuals and form a community.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Ajaan Mahā Boowa in London</title><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/mahaboowa-in-london" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Ajaan Mahā Boowa in London" /><published>2022-09-16T22:15:03+07:00</published><updated>2024-11-13T16:26:43+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/mahaboowa-in-london</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/mahaboowa-in-london"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <p>The Lord Buddha bestowed the <em>Sāsana</em> impartially to all human beings. [Buddhism] can become the wealth of people at each and every level depending on the interest they take in it.</p>
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<p>A dozen transcribed Dhamma talks delivered during Luangta Mahabua’s June 1974 trip to London.</p>]]></content><author><name>Luangta Maha Boowa</name><uri>https://buddhistuniversity.net/authors/boowa</uri></author><category term="booklets" /><category term="british" /><category term="farang" /><category term="path" /><category term="west" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The Lord Buddha bestowed the Sāsana impartially to all human beings. [Buddhism] can become the wealth of people at each and every level depending on the interest they take in it.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Verses of Sharing and Aspiration (English)</title><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/sharing-blessings-chant_amaravati" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Verses of Sharing and Aspiration (English)" /><published>2022-09-12T16:24:34+07:00</published><updated>2024-09-24T14:48:08+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/sharing-blessings-chant_amaravati</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/sharing-blessings-chant_amaravati"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <p>Through the goodness that arises from my practice…</p>
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<p>A group of Brits chants a translation of a traditional, Thai prayer.</p>]]></content><author><name>The Amaravati Saṅgha</name></author><category term="av" /><category term="farang" /><category term="west" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Through the goodness that arises from my practice…]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">Stillness Flowing: The Life and Teachings of Ajahn Chah</title><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/stillness-flowing_jayasaro" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Stillness Flowing: The Life and Teachings of Ajahn Chah" /><published>2021-01-17T12:54:56+07:00</published><updated>2024-11-13T16:26:43+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/stillness-flowing_jayasaro</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/monographs/stillness-flowing_jayasaro"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <p>It is as if an arrow has been pulled out of your heart.</p>
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<p>The comprehensive biography of one of the most revered of the modern Thai masters.</p>

<p>You can find <a href="https://www.jayasaro.panyaprateep.org/en/audio-album/9">the official audiobook here</a>.</p>]]></content><author><name>Ajahn Jayasaro</name><uri>https://buddhistuniversity.net/authors/jayasaro</uri></author><category term="monographs" /><category term="chah" /><category term="thai" /><category term="farang" /><category term="west" /><category term="monastic-theravada" /><category term="thai-forest" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[It is as if an arrow has been pulled out of your heart.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down The British Empire</title><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/irish-buddhist_turner-a" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk Who Faced Down The British Empire" /><published>2020-09-04T12:59:59+07:00</published><updated>2025-03-26T19:50:21+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/irish-buddhist_turner-a</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/irish-buddhist_turner-a"><![CDATA[<p>The story of an itinerant, Irish laborer who ordains as a Buddhist monk in 1900 in British Burma and then campaigns tirelessly against colonialism.</p>

<p>An interview with the first author of <a href="/content/monographs/irish-buddhist_turner-cox-bocking">the book by the same name</a>.</p>]]></content><author><name>Alicia Turner</name><uri>https://buddhistuniversity.net/authors/turner-a</uri></author><category term="av" /><category term="colonization" /><category term="burmese" /><category term="class" /><category term="sea" /><category term="irish" /><category term="theravada-roots" /><category term="farang" /><category term="west" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The story of an itinerant, Irish laborer who ordains as a Buddhist monk in 1900 in British Burma and then campaigns tirelessly against colonialism.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">MN 12: Māhasīhanāda Sutta Study</title><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/mn12-explanation_brahm" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="MN 12: Māhasīhanāda Sutta Study" /><published>2020-04-23T12:12:00+07:00</published><updated>2024-09-24T14:48:08+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/mn12-explanation_brahm</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/av/mn12-explanation_brahm"><![CDATA[<p>Ajahn Brahm discusses the Buddha’s qualities and tells some stories from his time as a monk in Thailand.</p>]]></content><author><name>Ajahn Brahm</name><uri>https://buddhistuniversity.net/authors/brahm</uri></author><category term="av" /><category term="buddha" /><category term="farang" /><category term="thai-forest" /><category term="philosophy" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ajahn Brahm discusses the Buddha’s qualities and tells some stories from his time as a monk in Thailand.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">The Fundamentals of Buddhism</title><link href="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/essays/fundamentals-of-buddhism_panyavaddho" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Fundamentals of Buddhism" /><published>2020-03-08T16:58:36+07:00</published><updated>2024-09-24T14:48:08+07:00</updated><id>https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/essays/fundamentals-of-buddhism_panyavaddho</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/essays/fundamentals-of-buddhism_panyavaddho"><![CDATA[<blockquote>
  <p>We’ve got these defilements, they are within us and they keep coming up all the time. They act like demons. They cause one trouble the whole time. So one does the meditation practice and it’s quite hard work for quite a long time, but steadily the results come. Bit by bit they come.</p>
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<p>Ajahn Pañña has a light-hearted but sincere discussion on the fundamentals of Buddhism one evening in Thailand.</p>]]></content><author><name>Ajahn Paññavaddho</name><uri>https://buddhistuniversity.net/authors/panyavaddho</uri></author><category term="essays" /><category term="philosophy" /><category term="farang" /><category term="thai-forest" /><category term="function" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[We’ve got these defilements, they are within us and they keep coming up all the time. They act like demons. They cause one trouble the whole time. So one does the meditation practice and it’s quite hard work for quite a long time, but steadily the results come. Bit by bit they come.]]></summary></entry></feed>