In South Vietnam, our team has visited and helped people in Long An and Dong Thap whose lives have been devastated by the floods. Our team worked in four villages—Binh Thanh, hamlets one…
Sister Chan Khong
Sister Chân Không (birth name Cao Ngoc Phuong) was born in a village on the Mekong River Delta in 1938. She has devoted her life to the development and practice of nonviolence grounded in the Buddhist precepts of non-killing and compassionate action. She is part of the community of Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh and lives in Plum Village, France.
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Learning True Love
Practicing Buddhism in a Time of War
View this bookIn January of 2005, after nearly 40 years in exile, Sister Chân Không was able to return on a 3-month visit to Vietnam. In this fully revised edition of Learning...
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Beginning Anew
Four Steps to Restoring Communication
View this bookIn Beginning Anew, Sister Chân Không shares a concrete, four-part process that can help anyone clear up misunderstandings, communicate more honestly and openly with the people around them, and heal...
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Deep Relaxation
Coming Home to Your Body
View this bookFor nearly 30 years Sister Chan Khong’s Deep Relaxation practice has been a highlight for thousands of people who have attended Order of Interbeing Buddhist retreats. With Deep Relaxation the...
Articles in The Mindfulness Bell
Monks’ Arrest
By Sister Chan Khong
Thich Nhat Hanh's two closest friends, the leaders of the Unified Buddhist Church (UBC)—Thich Huyen Quang and Thich Quang Do—were arrested in December. The police ransacked both their temples and took all their…
Come Close
By Sister Chan Khong
During the past ten years, I have shared with my friends the art of transforming internal suffering from our childhood and of our past into wholesome seeds. Thanks to this work, I can…
News from Vietnam
By Sister Chan Khong, Sister Jina van Hengel
Compiled by Sister True Emptiness, Sister True Wonder Adornment, Steve Denney, Therese Fitzgerald, and Carole Melkonian Over the last five years, the Vietnamese government has embarked on a policy of doi moi—reforms…
Feet in the Water, Tornadoes Above, and Landslides
By Sister Chan Khong
Plum Village, November 24, 2007 Dear Friends, These are a few of the headlines from Vietnam announcing great natural disasters sweeping across the country. In the north, we have sent…
Help for Victims of Typhoon Xangsene
By Sister Chan Khong
Plum Village — October 24, 2006 Dear Friend, The 11th of October 2006 was the 80th birthday of our teacher Thây Thich Nhat Hanh. Each year around this day we,…
Vietnam Update
By Sister Chan Khong
On a recent night, though it was very late, I could not sleep because I knew that hundreds of thousands of victims of the most recent flooding in Vietnam were sitting on their…
Thay’s Teaching Still Banned In Vietnam
By Sister Chan Khong
On April 29, 1999, Federico Mayor, General Director of UNESCO, wrote to Prime Minister Phan Van Khai of Vietnam requesting that the government allow the publication and circulation of books and tapes by Thich…
Floods Cover Central Vietnam
By Sister Chan Khong
Up to seven feet of rain fell on parts of central Vietnam over three days in early November, creating widespread flooding and mountainous landslides. The devastation is tremendous. Reuters News Agency reports that at least…
From Sister Chan Khong
By Sister Chan Khong
Editor's Note: In the following two letters, Sister Chan Khong shares some ideas about implementing Thay's vision of a unified Sangha and invites the input of the larger Sangha to help…
Green Mountain Dharma Center
By Sister Chan Khong
Dear friends, I am writing on behalf of Thay Nhat Hanh and the entire Sangha to ask for your help. In November 1997, Thay visited South Meadow Farm in Hartland, Vermont, and was…
Letter from Sister Chan Khong
By Sister Chan Khong
Village des PruniersMeyrac, Loubes-Bernac 47120, France 53.94.75.40 Dear Friends, With great pleasure, we send you this Mindfulness Bell, the newsletter of the Order of Interbeing. Many friends around the world will…
