The Five Aggregates by Bhante Bodhidhamma

Bhante Bodhidhamma, as a lay person practiced at Throssel Hole Zen Priory in north England, later with Sayadaw U Janaka in Burma and at various places with Sayadaw U Pandita.​ ​He ​ ordained in ​1986 and spent 8 years in Sri Lanka, returning to UK in 1998. He was the resident teacher at Gaia House, UK, 2001-2004. In 2007, he founded Satipanya Buddhist Retreat on the borders of Wales., devoted to vipassana in the tradition of the Mahasi Sayadaw. ​





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Kamma Revisited by Bhante Bodhidhamma

In this talk, Bhante Bodhidhamma examins the true meaning and intricacies of Kamma (Kharma).

Bhante is the Spiritual Director of Satipanya Buddhist Trust which runs retreats devoted to developing contemplative living and vipassana insight meditation in the tradition of Mahasi Sayadaw of Burma. (He also happens to be the brother of one of our Sangha members.)

Satipanya is located in Powys, Wales, south of Shrewsbury and near the Shropshire border, it is grounded in the Theravada Tradition as practised in South-East Asia.

“Satipanya is a combination of two words: sati means awareness, mindfulness and panya intuitive intelligence. These are the faculties of the Enlightened Mind," 

Bhante Bodhidhamma



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The Buddha's World View by Bhante Bodhidhamma

This is another talk by Bhante Bodhidhamma who recently visited us here at the West Wight Sangha.

The talk discusses the process of Dependent Origination and how we perceive the "World". It is one of the best explainations of the complex subject of Dependent Origination that I have heard.




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The Hindrances by Bhante Bodhidhamma

In the late seventies Bhante Bodhidhamma began to meditate in the Soto Zen tradition with his first Buddhist teacher, Vajira Bailey in Birmingham. In August 1979 he underwent Jukai and committed himself to Buddhism as a Zen Buddhist at Throssel Hole Priory in Northumberland.

During this period he was living in Birmingham where a Burmese monk, Ven. Dr. Rewata Dhamma, had set up a Vihara. He began to visit and out of interest joined a course of meditation in the vipassana technique with Achaan Sumedho, now the Chief Monk of the Thai Forest Tradition based at Amaravati Buddhist Centre near Hemel Hempstead. That experience convinced him that Vipassana was to be the technique that most serviced his needs.

Soon after he met his core teacher, Sayadaw U Janaka of Burma (Myanmar). He is one of the main teachers in the Mahasi Tradition. Bhante went to spend six months with him in Yangon. It had a deep and lasting effect upon him.



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The Hindrances part II

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