If you have anything you’d like to add/change please let me know. I’ve started with North America, Oceania, and Europe because I’ve not yet been able to map/find most addresses in Asia.
I’m sorry…I don’t really know how to fix Google errors. If it keeps happening let me know.
I would love to add Tilorien but I don’t know the new monastery address. Maybe this is something Ayya @Vimala can provide.
So this is a big problem I’ve been running into. The AfB directory has a lot of addresses (such as this one) that Google Maps can’t find when I input the address into search. What would be really awesome/helpful (and maybe @Cara this is something you can help with) is getting geographic coordinates as opposed to addresses for all of the bhikkhuni monasteries in Asia. This is a big task so let me know if I’m crazy.
Yup that’s what I was thinking. nothing’s crazy just a challenge I think I can ‘probably’ do it, but I need time in front of my computer which might not be for a while leave me to it
There be dragons! Mapping is all fun and games until somehow someone ends up trying to learn javascript or looses an eye!
Anyway, figured I’d have a little poke at the list, I’m not 100% about some of the the Asian ones. @Cara, might be able to verify them what with actually having visited the countries in question which rather beats my poor-man’s Google pilgrimage. In the order they appear on the AfB site:
###Sri Lanka
Ayya Khema International Meditation Centre : 6.76728, 80.03449 (it’s on the AfB list, but I guess strictly speaking it might not belong within the bounds of this map as it’s not a Bhikkhuni Monastery - if it does, however, then Milntuim Hermitage absolutely does: 56.34691, -4.00535)
Sakyadhita Training Center: 6.76192, 79.90189
Bhikkhuni Training Centre: 6.93674,80.09511 (Kahatapitiya, 12418 Horana, Sri Lanka)
lol - well sure, but you’ve been to at least Thailand and Sri Lanka beating my, ‘once thought about leaving my bedroom’ which in turn qualifies you as an expert
Oh shucks yes, as I was going through the list I could tell that some of the info was outdated, but I didn’t connect the dots with that particular case. Very sad.
Hmmmm. Yeah I don’t know. Do you think I should include non-bhikkhuni monasteries? I’m inclined not to as there will be so many monasteries. Also I think it would be cool to show just bhikkhuni places…is that insensitive?
As Amma Thanasanti is disrobing, I don’t think I’m going to include Awakening Truth.
The coordinates for this one show satellite footage of a forest . I mean they could definitely have built in the forest, but I’m not seeing any recent structures.
I think this is the main monastery, I believe the nuns monastery might be here:
The Ayya Khema Centre is home to Ayya Kusuma Bhikkhuni, the first Bhikkhuni in Sri Lanka and also the preceptor of the following generation of Bhikkhunis. When I visited last year, there was also another nun staying and Ayya Kusuma would love more nuns to come, but considering that she is already 90, it might be too much for her. In any case, I think she should be included. Nun’s monasteries tend to fluctuate in numbers. As far as I know, there is only one Bhikkhuni at Santi Forest Monastery at the moment too. But hopefully more in the future. It is certainly the intention for the Ayya Khema Centre that it will again grow as a Bhikkhuni monastery with more nuns, as it was in the past.