Vipassana Dhurak Buddhist Centre
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Chey Odam, Cambodia
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Vipassana Dhurak Buddhist Centre of Kingdom of Cambodia is one of, if not the monastery in the country: impressive, ornate and gorgeous. The golden girl in the pond is striking, amid the greenish water.
11am is their lunch time – although we’re shortly before 11, but the lunch wasn’t on for some reason.
The area is large but our tour only allotted us two hours here. A few of us would like to climb to the mount but unfortunately, time runs out. The joy of going with a tour group.
We walked thought living area for the nuns (who wear white; monks in saffron), the squalor, simple and crude conditions are in such sharp contrast to the splendid temples – do worshipers have to live in poverty to prove their piety?
The ground is nicely kept
Vipassana is a movement, per wiki “The Vipassanā movement refers to a branch of modern Burmese Theravāda Buddhism that promotes “bare insight” (sukha-Vipassana) to attain stream entry and preserve the Buddhist teachings. It gained widespread popularity since the 1950s, and to its western derivatives which have been popularised since the 1970s, giving rise to the more dhyana-oriented mindfulness movement.”
