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**SimSlim** · 07-30-2012, 10:06 AM

I think that may not always be the case in the west.

Amaravati Monastery in the UK, for example, has meditation classes at weekends as well as a weekly evening talk in the Temple. There are public talks and then question and answer sessions afterwards every Sunday during the summer months - and also several residential family events every year when parents take their children to stay there too.

thanks Aloka-D

however, i was not referring to such activities. such family orientated activities are more prevelant in Thailand than the UK

i am referring more to the heavy religious indoctrination of society at large & political engagement

kind regards

07-30-2012, 10:06 AM	#27
SimSlim Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 503 Senior Member	I think that may not always be the case in the west. Amaravati Monastery in the UK, for example, has meditation classes at weekends as well as a weekly evening talk in the Temple. There are public talks and then question and answer sessions afterwards every Sunday during the summer months - and also several residential family events every year when parents take their children to stay there too. thanks Aloka-D however, i was not referring to such activities. such family orientated activities are more prevelant in Thailand than the UK i am referring more to the heavy religious indoctrination of society at large & political engagement kind regards
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