Name: Day Retreat with Venerable Dr. Pannavati at Blue Lotus Temple
Start: 2025-02-16T09:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-02-16T15:00:00-06:00
Location: Blue Lotus Buddhist Temple

Day Retreat with Venerable Dr. Pannavati at Blue Lotus Temple

Venerable Dr. Pannavati, former Christian pastor, now Buddhist nun will be at the temple for a very rare opportunity to gain wisdom & peace.
About this Event

Join Venerable Dr. Pannavati at Blue Lotus Temple for a wonderfully informative, enlightening, and profound retreat. From 9am to 3pm on Sunday, February 16, Venerable Pannavati will share her great wisdom in this rare opportunity. A full Sri Lankan lunch is included in the cost. Registration is required to attend.

About Venerable Dr. Pannavati:

Ven. Dr. Pannavati, a former Christian pastor, is co-founder and co-Abbot of Embracing-Simplicity Hermitage and Co-Director of Heartwood Refuge, a new intentional community, and residential retreat and conference center in Hendersonville, NC. She is president of the Treasure Human Life Foundation. A black, female Buddhist monk ordained in the Theravada and Chan traditions of Buddhism, she remains a disciple of Great Master Kuang Seng, continues Vajrayana empowerments and teachings with beloved Rinpoche Zhaxi Zhouma and received transmission from Roshi Bernie Glassman of Zen Peacemaker.

Pannavati is both contemplative and empowered for compassionate service. She conducts retreats nationally at over 50 centers and churches each year sharing living truths that are deep, yet apprehendable. She advises the cultivation of both wisdom and compassionate action. She believes is it fine to sit in temples and meditate and pray when things are good; when they are not, we are compelled to get off our pillows and do something. Let our actions line up with our intentions.

She is a recipient of the Outstanding Buddhist Women’s Award; received a special commendation from the Princess of Thailand for Humanitarian Acts as she assisted Venerable Dr. Lee in guiding the first 50 Thai Bhikkhunis ordained on Thai soil with Thai monks witnessing and convened a platform of Bhikkhunis to ordain the first 10 Cambodian Samaneris in a Cambodian temple, witnessed by Cambodian abbots including Maha Thera Ven. Dhammathero Sao Khon, President of the Community of Khmer Buddhist Monks of the USA.