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Paul Trafford's blog: Remembering Luang Pu Wat Paknam, Master of Vijja Dhammakaya
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A personal blog for Paul Trafford. Tuesday, February 03, 2015. Remembering Luang Pu Wat Paknam, Master of Vijja Dhammakaya. Whose teacher was a disciple of the great Abbot. According to which generation you belong to, he is referred to as Luang Phor/Phaw or Luang Pu, which means approximately ‘venerable father’ or ‘venerable grandfather’ respectively. There is an inspiring account of his life in The Life and Times of Luang Phaw Wat Paknam. The primary path, the entry point on the Middle Way.
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Paul Trafford's blog: April 2011
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A personal blog for Paul Trafford. Saturday, April 02, 2011. Bye bye Thinkpad (R51) Hello Thinkpad (Edge 13). Updated 10 April '11]. After almost 6 years, the LCD display on my IBM Thinkpad R51 has become faulty with thin coloured vertical lines, the hard disk is getting full and generally it's not as sprightly as it once was. Or glossy options - the traditional boxy design would have been fine for me! I opted for Windows 7 Professional, which allows me to run under XP mode software that I was using prev...
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Paul Trafford's blog: April 2010
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A personal blog for Paul Trafford. Wednesday, April 07, 2010. Personal Diary Of Fuengsin Trafford - in 10 volumes! My mother, the late Fuengsin Trafford. Yet I can extract some simple patterns because there are many names in English (most of which I can decipher, but not all! These include circles of friends and places visited (many mention Strood, Chatham, and Rochester, all places in the Medway area that are collectively seeking city status. I would dearly like to be able to read the handwriting, but f...
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Paul Trafford's blog: September 2011
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A personal blog for Paul Trafford. Sunday, September 04, 2011. Siam in the 16th and 17th Centuries: Encountering the French missions. This opening paragraph comes from Relation du voyage de Mgr. de Béryte, vicaire apostolique du Royaume de la Cochinchine. Account of the Travels of The Mgr. [Bishop] of Beirut, Vicar Apostolic for the Kingdom of Cochinchina. Compiled by Jacques de Bourges, published in 1666 and made available as a Google eBook. Drawing on my schoolboy French, a translation might be:. Itine...
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Paul Trafford's blog: January 2011
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A personal blog for Paul Trafford. Sunday, January 16, 2011. A Wander around Chulalongkorn University. Visits and general sight-. I was given a special tour of Chulalongkorn University. By Khun Tewee, a long-time family friend who used to play with my mother as a child. Both of them had studied at Chula - Khun Tewee physical sciences and my mother (then Fuengsin Sarayutpitag). So it reads in the same order as in English, whereas all other universities would put. District of Bangkok, with the nearest BTS ...
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Paul Trafford's blog: February 2015
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A personal blog for Paul Trafford. Tuesday, February 03, 2015. Remembering Luang Pu Wat Paknam, Master of Vijja Dhammakaya. Whose teacher was a disciple of the great Abbot. According to which generation you belong to, he is referred to as Luang Phor/Phaw or Luang Pu, which means approximately ‘venerable father’ or ‘venerable grandfather’ respectively. There is an inspiring account of his life in The Life and Times of Luang Phaw Wat Paknam. The primary path, the entry point on the Middle Way.
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Paul Trafford's blog: August 2012
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A personal blog for Paul Trafford. Sunday, August 19, 2012. All catering facilities ceased during Ramadan and I didn't see anyone eat or drink in the office. I think all the local newspapers irrespective of language have been featuring Ramadan on a daily basis. I've been reading on a daily basis articles published by The Peninsula. Or the Catholic Herald. Regarding commentators, among the secular broadsheets in the UK probably only the Daily Telegraph. The latter known for its contributors' advocacy of s...
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Paul Trafford's blog: February 2011
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A personal blog for Paul Trafford. Wednesday, February 02, 2011. Ban Ki-moon's Cyril Foster Lecture in Oxford. This evening I went along to Oxford's Examination Schools to listen to H.E. Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, give a speech entitled 'Human Protection and the 21st Century United Nations' by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. This was for the annual Cyril Foster Lecture. Even in the relative shelter of a university lecture, the office had the first say, as though tapping him on the shoulder....
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Paul Trafford's blog: June 2010
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A personal blog for Paul Trafford. Sunday, June 27, 2010. Textual origins of the Ten Good Deeds. In the course of my investigations for the M.St. dissertation. I read from Richard Gombrich’s Precept and Practice. Which provides much illumination into traditional Buddhist practices in Sri Lanka. He discusses in some detail Ten Good Deeds (. Which are still highly valued (see, for instance, the post on Contentment in the recluse life. By Ven. Bhikkhu Praghyalok). Mdash; giving (material). The former usuall...
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Paul Trafford's blog: July 2012
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A personal blog for Paul Trafford. Sunday, July 15, 2012. A Twofold Summer Climate. I had my first taste of Middle East summer weather almost exactly 24 years ago, en route. With my mother to Thailand. We flew with Gulf Air and landed at Doha to pick up passengers before continuing to Muscat, where we changed planes. Stepping out from the aircraft at around midnight we were confronted with heat of about 32 degrees and I quickly removed a pullover. For construction workers it's another story. If ever I fe...
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