Welcome to Chaiya Meditation Monastery

Venerable Chaiya, formally known as U Zeyathuta, was born on Tuesday, March 25, 1947 in the devoted Buddhist family of U Myat and Daw Moon. He is the second son of five children. He originally came from Si Paw Township, Shan State in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. After 7 months straight of intensive silent meditation, members of the Las Vegas Buddhist community requested Venerable Chaiya to teach Dharma classes. With the help of his disciples around the world, Venerable Chaiya established Chaiya Meditation Monastery in 1995. As part of his practice of meditation, Arjahn Chaiya secludes himself for intensive meditation each year during the period referred to as Buddhist Lent. Currently, Arjahn Chaiya has produced a series of cassette tapes and CDs more than 1,000 copies of Dhamma Teachings in the Thai, Burmese, and English languages. The Monastery has been distributing his teachings with more than 50,000 cassettes and FREE around the world...read full story