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Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery

British Columbia, Canada · built 1994

Birken Forest Buddhist Monastery, or Sītavana (Pali: "Cool Forest"), is a Theravada Buddhist monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition near Kamloops, British Columbia. It serves as a training centre for monastics and also a retreat facility for laypeople. Its abbot is Venerable Ajahn Soṇa.

Monastery data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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