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observed. You can join any time. Minimum stay is 10 days. For maximum, sky’s the limit. Lodging: Foreigners live in the new four-floor building. Clean single rooms are available. Common modern showers and toilets. Washing machine. Each room contains a bed and a table. Mattress, sheets, blanket, mosquito net and thermos are provided by the center. What to bring: Insect repellant (Yangon is malaria-free), personal medication, warm sweater and socks for the cooler season (November to February), sitting pillow. Most articles of daily use (soap, toothpaste, flashlight, batteries) are available in Yangon. Food: Two abundant meals daily. Breakfast is at 5:30 a.m. (full meal with fried rice or noodles and noodle soup as well as fruit, cake, coffee, tea) and lunch at 10:30 a.m. (rice with five to seven different curries, fruit, desserts). You can choose between vegetarian and nonvegetarian food. Evenings, fruit juice around 5 p.m. You can fill your thermos with hot water during mealtime. Clean, filtered drinking water is available. Costs: The center is supported exclusively with donations. Medical care: Medical doctors visit the center regularly to treat the meditators for free. Western and traditional Burmese drugs are available. Rules and clothing: All meditators practice from 3:30 a.m. to at least 9:30 p.m. and must observe the eight silas. Temporary ordination is possible for women and men. During the retreat meditators keep noble silence and do not read and write (except short notes for the individual interviews). Walks outside the center are prohibited and the center is left only in emergencies. Therefore, you should provide for all contingencies ahead of time. E-mail and fax use is also only permitted in emergencies. Burmese yogi attire is recommended: white/light blouse or T-shirt and brown longyi (sarong) for women, white/light shirt or T-shirt and brown longyi for men. You can buy these things there easily and at a good price or borrow them from the center. Climate and best time to go: Tropical climate. Best go in the cooler season from November to February. Immigration: Visa mandatory. Tourist visa is valid for four weeks. If you want to enter with a meditation visa you must ask for a so-called sponsorship letter from the center which must be sent to the Burmese embassy together with the visa 54
application. For processing, reckon on about three months. Visa extensions are also possible. Take sufficient passport pictures (about 10) for the various forms. Note: Foreigners are treated very courteously. Branch monasteries: Chanmyay Yeiktha (Forest Centre in Hmawbi) Shansu, Hmawbi, Myanmar, Tel: 0095-1-620321 Chanmyay Yeiktha (Pyin Oo Lwin) Toe Gyi Koun Village, near Anee Sakhann railway station Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar, Tel: 0095-85-22457 Chanmyay Yeiktha (Hinthada) Targlay Quarter, Hinthada, Myanmar, Tel: 0095-44-21838 Chanmyay Yeiktha (Lei Way), Lei Way Myo, Myanmar abroad: Dhammodaya Chanmyay Yeiktha Meditation Centre 45/1 MU4 Tambol Tanon Krad, Ampur Muang Nakon Pathon 73000, Thailand Tel: 0066-1-8109632, E-mail: dhammodaya@hotmail.com Sitalarama Vihara Myanmar Buddhist Temple, 69 Martin Valley Road N.E Calgary, AB T3J 4L9, Canada, Tel: 001-403-5687205 Dhammodaya Myanmar Vihara, 30 Mackay Drive, Ashburton, Petermarizberg 3200, South Africa Tel: 0027-33-3261463, E-mail: mabasa@iafrica.com 55
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