We have invited Ananda Baltrunas to our Sangha Day-which is this Sunday at 6:00 pm.   Our sangha first met him when he wrote to us from Branchville Correctional facility in Tell City, Indiana.   He asked for help in creating a sangha at Branchville.   Our sangha under the guidance of Lee Buchtman responded to that request for seven years.   Lee will be present this Sunday also.

Ananda became a Theravada monk in 1971 and was ordained at Branchville in the Vietnamese tradition of Truc Lam in 1997.   Since then he has been ordained in the Jodo, Soto and Tandai traditions.   He is married and lives in Chicago.
We will have drinks and cookies following the sitting and the talk/discussion.   We will be finished by 8:00 pm.