More information about Your Stay

Monk for a Month takes care of everything for you, including :
  • All meals - food and beverages
  • Arranging your acccommodation which is provided by the temple
  • 24 hour back-up support
  • Appropriate donation to the temple
  • Learning materials and tutorials in English
  • Provisions for ordination ceremony
  • Robes are provided for you during your stay
  • We provide a contact service for your family and friends should they need to urgently contact you
  • Optional transfers to and from Chiang Mai
  • Optional day-tours of the area

Our programs include everything you need to live, study, practice and ordain as a novice monk.

During an ordained stay you will live as a Buddhist novice monk :

  • Wake up before dawn to participate in morning alms rounds
  • Receive the Dhamma including the Four Noble truths and the Eightfold path
  • Practice Vipassana meditation
  • Study the Pali language for Buddhist chanting and prayer
  • Follow the Ten Precepts for a novice monk
    1. Refrain from killing living things
    2. Refrain from stealing
    3. Refrain from sexual misconduct
    4. Refrain from lying and gossiping
    5. Refrain from taking intoxicants (drugs, alchohol)
    6. Refrain from taking food at inappropriate times (after noon)
    7. Refrain from singing, dancing, playing music or attending performances
    8. Refrain from wearing perfume, cosmetics and decorative accessories
    9. Refrain from sitting on high chairs and sleeping on luxurious, soft beds
    10. Refrain from accepting money
  • Undergo formal, ceremonial ordination at the discretion of your Abbott

There are also a number of extra activities that are available to you including: