Ingredients:

- 100g fresh mushroom
- 100g cauliflower
- 200g carrot
- 100g onions
- 2 potatoes
- 200g tofu
- 1 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 tbsp curry spice
- 1 tbsp seasoning
- 1 tsp salt
- 150ml coconut juice & milk (can)
- 1 liter water; oil to fry tofu

Estimated time: 60 minutes
Makes approximately: 4 servings

Dear Friends,

We are very happy to offer a new Plum Village website (plumvillage.org) that is more rich, convenient, and accessible for everyone.  As you may be aware, the new website has been live for the past three weeks and we hope you have enjoyed it.  With the new website comes new responsibilities - maintaining the site and keeping the site fresh and meaningful with new articles and other content.  With this work, we humbly request your assistance.  It is our hope that we may all - monks, nuns, lay women, and lay men - come together as a virtual community, a “fourfold Sangha”, to create and maintain this website for the benefit of all. In this light, we ask for your help in the following areas:

* Editing
* Transcribing and editing Dharma talks by Thay and our Dharma Teachers [we can provide mp3s of the talks]
* Sharing experiences of being at a retreat
* Sharing experiences of practicing in your life
* Contributing music and other dharma media
* Helping us create animations, perhaps for stories and songs
* Contributing in other ways in which you feel drawn to do so

If you would like more information or are able to assist in any way, please don't hesitate to write to us.

Thank you for your support, and may your days and nights be well

Ingredients:

- 1 package of vermicelli
a) vegetarian fat:
- leeks
- crouton
- 1 cup oil
b) vegetarian fish meat:
- 250g gluten flour
- 2 ¼ cups warm water
- 2 tbsp seasoning powder
- ½ tsp five spices
c) vegetarian fish sauce:
- 1 ¼ cup boiling water - 2 tsp salt
- ½ lemon (if you like your sauce to be a little more sour, use a whole lemon)
- soy sauce
- 2 tbsp sugar - chili pepper (optional)
d) mint, lettuce, cucumber

Estimated time: 120 minutes
Makes: 4 – 6 servings

This slideshow contains photo's taken during my stay in Plum Village. Most of the pictures are from Upper Hamlet, since that's where I stayed. Others are from Lower and New Hamlet.

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Credited to: R Smittenaar

During orientation, the first night of the retreat, Br. Phap Khoi read the letter in which Thay wrote for the practioners that attended the retreat.  Many of which after hearing the letter, had shed tears and was very surprised to hear that Thay will not be here to led the retreat because of heath reasons.  A lot of the practioners had shared there disappoints in the first dharma discussion.  But after two days of the retreat, they were able to feel the strong energy from the Sangha and can truly see that Thay is a part of the Sangha.  The retreat had left behind many impressions both for monastics and for lay practioners.  A retreat that can never be forgotten.

Please enjoy some of the photos that was taken during the retreat in the YMCA...

After the Summer opening in Plum Village, Thay and the Sangha went to offer teachings in the US.  Brothers and sisters were in great joy after reuniting.  After one day of arriving to Blue Cliff Monastery, although it was slightly rain, but despite of that, people came from all over to attend a day of mindfulness which was held on August the 9th.  A lot of our friends were very happy to have a chance to listen directly to Thay's dharma talk.  From Blue Cliff, Thay and The Sangha departed on a bus to go to Stonehill College, Masschusetts for a 6 days retreat "Be Peace, Be Joy, Be Hope" along with 800 practioners.  The weather were filled with sunshines and the environment was very relaxing because the fields were filled with green grasses.

Please enjoy some of the photos in Blue Cliff Monastery and Stonehill College.

Ingredients :

• 100g peeled mung beans (soaked for two hours)
• 5 pieces of black fungus (soaked in water)
• 1 carrot
• 20g glass noodles
• 50g frozen peas
• 50g fine soy protein (soaked in water) (drained)
• 1 small onion
• 1 tsp seasoning powder
• 2 tbsp flour
• 10 sheets of egg-roll skin.

Estimated time: 40 Minute
Makes: 10 Rolls

As many friends have requested, our community has had the intention to make a Plum Village booklet. The purpose of this booklet is to show you how to cook vegetarian food in the Plum Village style, a healthy and tasty cuisine with ingredients easy to get at the supermarket or Chinese shops in Europe or in the United States. We would like to invite you to come to Plum Village in order to see how the Sisters (in the New Hamlet or Lower Hamlet) or the Brothers (in the Upper Hamlet or in the Foot of the Mountain Hamlet) cook vegetarian mindfully, joyfully and calmly, which might be an inspiration for you.

Performance and dance by the monastic sangha during the 21 days retreat "The Path of the Buddha".

Courtesy: MSN News

A deadline for followers of one of the world's most influential Buddhist monks to leave their Vietnam monastery appears to have passed peacefully and they remain in place, a community member said Thursday.

State-linked religious authorities had given about 400 monks loyal to Thich Nhat Hanh until Wednesday to leave the monastery in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, but they had refused to go and hoped to find a solution.

"They still carry out their religious activities and so far there have been no signs of a siege," Hong Kong-based Thich Phap Kham, a founder of the Bat Nha community, said after talking to the monks on Wednesday.

"We are not against the government. We just want to practise there," Kham, 47, said of the Bat Nha monastery.