Buddhist Monastery

During the Year 5/6 trip to Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, we had opportunities to:

Experience what meal-times look like with monks and nuns
Visit the temple
See a stupa (buddhist monument)
Meditate.

All of this helped us to gain a deeper understanding of the Buddhist faith.  Below are just a sample of the interesting facts we discovered:

Kaia:  Buddhists don't worship a God.  Instead they follow the teachings of the Buddha who lived approximately 2500 years ago.
Ben:  You can meditate in four ways: sitting, standing, walking or lying down.
Grace:  If a monk is in training they wear white robes; once they have become a monk, they wear saffron robes.
Dylan:  There are 227 precepts (rules) that a Buddhist monk must follow.
Chloe:  The monk showing us around had not touched money since 1994!