International Vipassana Meditation Centre at Wat Phradat Sri Chomtong

To Northern Vipassana, The door to the Insight Meditation Center at Wat Phradhatu Sri Chomtong Voravihara, Chomtong, Chiangmai. Hello Visitors, The center is open and offering Courses in Satipatthana Vipassana Meditation, Please check with us for more Information. Yours in Dhamma Kathryn and Thanat About Us Thanat Chindaporn Thanat Chindaporn is a senior disciple of Most Venerable Chao Khun Phra Prommongkol Vi (Most Venerable Ajarn Tong Sirimangalo), is a senior teacher of Satipatthana Vipassana Meditation in the Therevada Buddhist tradition of Thailand and is the director of the International Meditation Department at Wat Phra Dhatu Sri Chomtong Voravihara, Chomtong, Chiangmai, which was established in the year 2000. Thanat studied Vipassana Meditation with Most Venerable Ajarn Tong Sirimangalo in the mid 1980’s and he began his teaching apprenticeship with the late Venerable Luang Poh Banyat Akkayano, the founding co-director of Thailand’s Northern Insight Meditation Center at Wat Ram Poeng (Tapotaram), Chiangmai. Since 1988, Ajarn Thanat has conducted meditation courses in Thailand, North & South America, and throughout Europe. Ajarn Thanat is an avid photographer, specializing in portraits of many of Northern Thailand’s most revered meditation masters and elder monks as well as archiving the ancient Buddhist cultural traditions of Northern Thailand in audio visual media. In 2004, Thanat received Thailand’s Benefactor of Buddhism Award for his dissemination of Buddhism worldwide. Kathryn Chindaporn Kathryn Chindaporn, is a senior disciple of Most Venerable Chao Khun Phra Prommongkol Vi (Most Venerable Ajarn Tong Sirimangalo), having studied Vipassana since 1986. Ajarn Kathryn has been teaching Vipassana for over 30 years, teaching in Thailand and her birthplace, Washington State, and conducting courses in North America, and Europe since 1988. Ajarn Kathryn has been guest lecturer at the Mahachulalongkorn Rajavidyalaya Buddhist University in Chiangmai, and is currently Thai-English interpreter and assistant director and meditation teacher at the International Meditation Department at Wat Phradhatu Sri Chomtong Voravihara, Chomtong, Chiangmai.