Part 2 of 2. Q & A - Ajahn Punnadhammo on UFOs and Aliens. To read my questions and the questions and comments of others, please go Ajahn's YouTube live streamed talk on his channel at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBA6fYq-0hc&t=19s&ab_channel=AjahnPunnadhammo
Ajahn Punnadhammo gives a rare talk with questions and answers on UFOs and Aliens. Here, he clarified questions I have had for decades. In my 1999 book, "Freeing the Buddha," available at Amazon, chapter 14 is "Buddhism and UFOs" which is just a primer for this unique talk by a venerable senior monk. Ajahn Punnadhammo talks about greys, more likely being from the human-like realm, rather than the deva/ angelic realm. He also talks about exotic military technology and the anomaly of the moon.
He is an eminently qualified senior Buddhist monk to expound on this as he is the author of the most important book in English, on Buddhist cosmology. Please buy a copy of "The Buddhist Cosmos" at: https://www.amazon.com/Buddhist-Cosmos-Comprehensive-Worldview-Sarv%C4%81stiv%C4%81da-ebook/dp/B07NWBK3KH/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+buddhist+cosmos&qid=1617510902&sr=8-1
His YouTube channel is:
https://www.youtube.com/c/AjahnPunnadhammo/featured
Website: https://arrowriver.ca/
This is a FAIR USE of Ajahn Punnadhammo's creative commons YouTube video.
The day this video was released on Ajahn's YouTube channel there was this comment:
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Dear Ajahn, you may be amused to learn that a lady on a Buddhist Facebook group shared this video to the group and they removed the video as being non-Buddhist content! She created a new topic asking why it was deleted because it was Buddhist content and by an ordained Buddhist Monk but they deleted that as well. So would you all discuss the dangers of false Buddhist teachers in social media. Thank you Sir. Sadhu 🙏🏼
Ajahn Punnadhammo is abbot of the Arrow River Forest Hermitage, which is a Theravadin Buddhist monastery and meditation center in the Ajahn Chah, Thai Forest tradition, located in Northern Ontario, fifty miles southwest of Thunder Bay. They have 92 acres of land in a beautiful mixed forest.
Ajahn Punnadhammo has been studying and practicing Buddhism since 1979 and was ordained in Thailand in the forest tradition of Ajahn Chah (novice ordination Feb. 1991, higher ordination Feb. 1992). Between 1990 and 1995 he was based at Wat Pah Nanachat, Thailand. Punnadhammo is a Canadian, born Michael Dominskyj in Toronto in 1955. He began studying the Dhamma under Kema Ananda, the founder and first teacher at the Arrow River Center.
Ven. Punnadhammo began at the Center in 1979 and did a one-year solitary retreat in 1988-89. After this he went to Thailand to seek ordination. During this period Kema Ananda continued to teach in partnership with his wife Woon. In 1995 Kema Ananda contracted lung cancer and anticipating his imminent death he asked Ven. Punnadhammo to return to Canada and to assume management of the Center. Punnadhammo returned with the blessing of his seniors in the order in November of that year and was able to spend some time with his beloved teacher before his death.
