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Plum Village Monastery

Thénac, France · built 1982

The Plum Village Monastery (Vietnamese: Làng Mai, Village des pruniers) is a Buddhist monastery of the Plum Village Tradition in the Dordogne, southern France near the city of Bordeaux. It was founded by two Vietnamese monastics, Thích Nhất Hạnh (a Zen master and Buddhist monk) and Chân Không (a Buddhist nun), in 1982.

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