Sravasti Abbey 20th Anniversary Celebration!
Venerable Thubten Damcho 
Jul 11, 2023 
6 hours
In Person
Sravasti Abbey 20th Anniversary Celebration!
10 am to 3:30 pm Pacific Time
Can you believe it! Twenty years!
Venerable Thubten Chodron and two cats moved onto the newly purchased Sravasti Abbey property in October 2003.
Today, there are 22 monastics—monks and nuns—and thousands of guests have passed through the Abbey in person.
Tens of thousand more have “visited” the Abbey online through the two websites, our YouTube channel, Facebook, and Instagram.
Join us as we remember, honor, and reflect on Sravasti Abbey’s journey over the last two decades and set aspirations for the future.
The day includes Dharma talks and reminscence with our founder, Venerable Thubten Chodron, comments from residents and Dharma friends, videos, photo displays, lunch, and a tour of the new Buddha Hall.
Venerable Thubten Damcho
Ven. Damcho (Ruby Xuequn Pan) met the Dharma through the Buddhist Students’ Group at Princeton University. After graduating in 2006, she returned to Singapore and took refuge at Kong Meng San Phor Kark See (KMSPKS) Monastery in 2007, where she served as a Sunday School teacher. Struck by the aspiration to ordain, she attended a novitiate retreat in the Theravada tradition in 2007, and attended an 8-Precepts retreat in Bodhgaya and a Nyung Ne retreat in Kathmandu in 2008. Inspired after meeting Ven. Chodron in Singapore in 2008 and attending the one-month course at Kopan Monastery in 2009, Ven. Damcho visited Sravasti Abbey for 2 weeks in 2010. She was shocked to discover that monastics did not live in blissful retreat, but worked extremely hard! Confused about her aspirations, she took refuge in her job in the Singapore civil service, where she served as a high school English teacher and a public policy analyst. Offering service as Ven. Chodron’s attendant in Indonesia in 2012 was a wake-up call. After attending the Exploring Monastic Life Program, Ven. Damcho quickly moved to the Abbey to train as an Anagarika in December 2012. She ordained on October 2, 2013 and is the Abbey’s current video manager. Ven. Damcho also manages Ven. Chodron’s schedule and website, helps with editing and publicity for Venerable’s books, and supports the care of the forest and vegetable garden.