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Vipassana Center
Office Hours: Every day between 08:00 to 10:20. 13:00 to 16:30.
Email: info@watchomtong.com
Whatsapp: +66 98 992 2995 (Meditation Watchomtong)
Telephone: +66 5 334 2184 Ext. 11
Required documents for the meditation retreat
Your valid passport with a valid visa. (Hand in your passport to the reception, and retrieve it after you return your room key.)
Reason: Resolving issues if someone interupts the retreat or leaves early, avoid unauthorized or unnoticed departures,
protect the integrity of the retreat environment, do not allow leaving the grounds without notice, preventing loss or damages.
During retreats, participants: live simply, move between dorms, halls, and dining areas, sometimes have limited storage.
People often lsot items during long retreats.
Retreat centers hold passports to protect them from theft, loss, or mispalcement while the mind is focused on the practice.
What do I have to bring for the meditation retreat?
A working alarm clock or timer. You must be able to set it to increments of five minutes.
You may use your mobile phone as a timer, have discipline and remember your purpose of visiting.
Mobile phones can become a distraction that may prevent you from progressing in the meditation practice.
You may keep it at the reception Prepare two sets of white clothes.
Available for purchase from the local stores near the parking lot.
The clothes are also available for sale in Chaing Mai City (Warorot Market/ Kad Luang ).
For women: Loose, modest, non-transparent white sarong or trousers, a loose white shirt with sleeves and a white ‘sa-bai’
(a white scarf,which is worn over the breast wrapping around the left shoulder).
You may borrow a white sabai from the monastery laundry room under the office.
For men: Loose, modest, non-transparent white trousers and a shirt.
Personal items: (toiletries, toilet paper, a towel, mosquitoe repellent and a water bottle for refilling, tea bag, cocoa powder, supplements,eanut/seeds to complete your meal before noon).
Reservation procedure:
1. Fill out the application form with a specific arrival and departure date.
2. Rename the file with your name and submit them through e-mail info@watchomtong.com
3. The applicants will get a response as soon as possible.
Submitting your application form through e-mail to confirm your reservation will help save time and guarantee you a spot on arrival.
If you have not received the confirmation email, please check your spam or junk mail folder.
*Please do not hesitate to notify us if you decide to cancel, so we can provide the room for others.
Arrival procedure
1. Let the staff know that you made a reservation online by email or web-form.
2. Please arrive by 13:00 to check in with a reception monk staff (Phra).
3. Fill out the application form, take a photo, and hand in your passport.
4. The passport will be returned on the last day after you complete your stay with the room keys returned.
5. Receive your room key.
6. Receive the “Meditator Identification Card” indicated the monk meditation instructor (Phra Ajahn)’s name.
7. Walk to your room, unpack and change into white shirt and trouser.
8. + 14:50; Meet in front of the International Vipassana Office.
+ 15:30; Opening ceremony at Kuthi Hatainares (Ajahn Tong's residence).
+ 16:40; Demonstration on practice methods at Wat Chomtong.
* The mindful prostration
* The walking meditation
* The sitting meditation
9. Next day at 7:00 am; The meditation report begins. Be mindful while you wait patiently as the practice of mindfulness can be anytime, anywhere even in your everyday life.
Contribution to our meditation program
Dana (Donation) System Our monastery follows the Theravāda Buddhist tradition, where all teachings and activities are freely offered. There is no fixed fee.
We kindly invite those who are able to contribute from the heart, helping support the monastery, its programs, and daily needs such as utilities.
In Thai culture, this is known as “clearing sangha debt or Chamra Nee Song”—a voluntary way of giving back after benefiting from the monastery’s support.
Your generosity helps sustain the monastery and keeps this tradition of free teaching alive for future generations.
If you want a dana receipt (Anumodanabat), please request.
If any officials/staff coerced you to make a contribution (other than the optional accommodation AC room)
or make you feel uneasy about making donations, please file a complaint to the managing director by email at " P.Srisilapajarn2@Gmail.com "
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