In the morning of April 15, 2020, the Sangha of Wat Pah Nanachat happily accepted three new “Anagarikas” — literally meaning “homeless ones” (locally also called “pakaos” due to their white-robes, which indicate a formal commitment to the eight precepts, and express the aspiration to become a novice or monk in the future). Perhaps all attending the little in-house precept-taking ceremony of theses three Anagarikas, and most of all the postulants themselves, may have felt the particular preciousness of an opportunity to leave worldly life behind within a raging global pandemic. The Sangha of Wat Pah Nanachat wholeheartedly wishes them all the best on the training path towards liberation from old-age, sickness and death.
