On April 5, 2020, Doug McGill conducted an interview with Sayadaw U Tejaniya concerning how a meditator can practice during a time of pandemic. Translated by Ma Thet, his responses can be read in full here.
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Beth (previously Sayalay Anuttara) was ordained as a Buddhist nun for ten years in the Pa Auk tradition of Myanmar. She now teaches meditation, and in this time of the coronovirus, is offering online meditation instruction to anyone who would like to practice at home.
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As COVID-19 (coronavirus) spreads around the globe, the media has been so busy reporting on the stunning developments in much of the Western world that the reality in other countries and cultures has often been overlooked. Many meditators now sheltering at home in their own places may be wondering about the view on the ground from Buddhist Burma, and how monasteries, meditators, and monastics are responding. Ashin Dhammosadha, a German monk living in Yangon, gives an update from his recent months there:
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Why are there still no reported cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Golden Land, when it has been spreading unabated into nearly every other country on Earth?
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Let by the revered Bhamo Sayadaw, the Chairman of State Sangha Mahanayaka Committee, Burmese monks are flown by helicopter over the Golden Land to protect their people from the deadly Coronavirus, COVID-19. They can be seen chanting protective verses and sprinkling water laced with chantings on loving-kindness, and making the Vow of Truth.
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The questionable intersection between Dhamma and Romance in one of the sacred Buddhist sites of Mandalay.
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