{"id":3330,"date":"2017-10-10T13:08:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/?p=3330"},"modified":"2017-10-20T10:36:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T08:36:05","slug":"meeting-with-theravada-ag-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/2017\/10\/10\/meeting-with-theravada-ag-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting with Theravada AG Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tilorien community was invited to join this fall&#8217;s Theravada AG meeting at a lovely little Thai temple in Langenselbold, near Frankfurt a. M., and to give a presentation about our <a href=\"http:\/\/tilorien.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">monastery project<\/a> and our work for <a href=\"https:\/\/suttacentral.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">SuttaCentral<\/a>. Theravada AG is Germany&#8217;s body for representing this branch of Buddhism in the German Buddhist Union.<\/p>\n<p>At the last moment, Ayya Vimala fell sick, so Ayya Kathrin and Anagarika Sabbamitt\u0101 had to embark on the journey alone. After an exhausting 7-hour ordeal, passing Frankfurt in the Friday evening rush hour, we finally arrived and were met by a group of very friendly and sympathetic Thais and Theravada AG members.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/theravada-ag-re1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/theravada-ag-re1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/theravada-ag-re1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.samita.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/theravada-ag-re1.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next morning, we had a lively discussion with the\u00a0participants of the meeting. Our aim to establish a place for female monastics in Europe received much positive feedback, and our presentation about Early Buddhist Texts and SuttaCentral sparked especially much interest. It was wonderful to discuss with like-minded people who gave us a lot of moral support for our projects. We left with much inspiration and positive energy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tilorien community was invited to join this fall&#8217;s Theravada AG meeting at a lovely little Thai temple in Langenselbold, near Frankfurt a. M., and to give a presentation about our monastery project and our work for SuttaCentral. Theravada AG&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/2017\/10\/10\/meeting-with-theravada-ag-germany\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samita.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}