PLUM VILLAGE

Plum Village, near Bordeaux in southwest France, is the largest international practice center in the Plum Village tradition, and the first onastic community founded by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay) in the West.

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Plum Village began in 1982 as a small, rustic farmstead, and has today grown into Europe’s largest Buddhist monastery, with over 200 resident monks and nuns, living and practising in four different hamlets spread out across the French countryside. It is a continuation of the original “Sweet Potato Community” that Thay first founded near Paris in the 1970s, soon after he was exiled from Vietnam.

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Plum Village UK is a network of individuals who are inspired by the Plum Village tradition. They organise retreats on a regular basis.

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