Winter Retreat available for reservation
February 25th until May 17th 2026
Pick your arrival-departure date and get a confirmation.
You are invited to attend the Meditation retreat in Germany.
3/7/10/15/26 days
Check out our branch center in Germany
February 25th until March 22, 2026
Break: March 23-27, 2026 Vipassana Meditation Workshop in Den Haag, NL
March 28 until May 17, 2026
Unique benefits of Wat Chomtong Vipassana Meditation program:
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Learn the 4 foundations of mindfulness – Gain self awareness of behaviour, management of feelings, thoughts and emotions for a more balanced life read more
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Daily insight reporting – to an experienced Phra Ajahn (Thai Bhikku Instructor), feedback and guidance including Thai, English, French, Chinese.
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Learn 3 forms of meditation – Mindful Prostration, Walking & Sitting meditation, a great balance to mind/body stress and discomfort.
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Experience – converse, practice & join morning/evening chants alongside Thai buddhist monks and nuns within our beautiful meditation halls.
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Course start & duration – Minimum stay 3 days, recommended stay 7-10 days. Foundation course 24 days. Advanced Review course 14-16 days.
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Lenience – we encourage strict practice for the students to abstain from contact, talking and follow rules and guidelines of the monastery for your own progress
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Private room – all students enjoy private, modest, fan rooms (or A/c) with bathroom view rooms
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Thai cuisine – meals provided by our kitchen twice daily at 6:00 and 11:00
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Donation– This is a Theravāda Buddhist monastery that offers meditation retreats throughout the year. All retreats are offered freely, in the spirit of dāna (generosity). While participation is donation-based, the monastery has ongoing expenses such as food, electricity, and maintenance. We are deeply grateful for any support you may offer from your kind heart, which helps sustain the monastery and make the teachings available to all.
The four foundations of mindfulness explained
Acknowledging is the heart of Insight Meditation. It is the continual work of mindfulness to recognize and acknowledge. Insight meditation, through the four foundations of mindfulness, focuses on the body, the feelings, the mind (thought) and objects of the mind. Literally, the four foundations of mindfulness serve as the base of mindfulness. Practically, they are the state of being continually mindful of what happens to the five aggregates (which are: body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness).
1. Mindfulness of the Body is to contemplate bodily action and sensations. This includes, for example, acknowledging or being conscious of the lifting, stepping and placing of the foot during walking meditation, and acknowledging the rising and falling of the solar plexus in sitting meditation.
2. Mindfulness of One’s Feelings is to contemplate the pleasant/unpleasant/neutrality of your experience. That is, to acknowledge happiness, to know how happy one is, or to acknowledge misery, and to know how miserable one is, or to acknowledge the neutral feeling which is neither happiness nor misery.
3. Mindfulness of the Mind (thought) is to contemplate one’s thoughts or to be conscious of the passion, anger, delusion, sloth, distraction, drowsiness, peace, etc. in the thought. While in meditation our minds may think of the past or the future. We then take that thought as the momentary focus of the meditation by acknowledging ‘thinking-thinking-thinking’ before returning our focus to the breath or the foot.
4. Mindfulness of Objects of the Mind is to contemplate mental recognition and other volitional activities. Recognition is to know something when perceiving it. Volitional activities happen when we think about or comment on something. While we think, we must be mindful of thinking. When we are desirous, angry, slothful, restless, or doubtful as a result of thinking or external stimulation, we must be mindful too.
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Wat Phradhati Sri Chomtong Woravihara history
Wat Phradhatu Sri Chom Tong Woravihara is situated on a Holy Buddhist Site with a history dating back more than 2,500 years ago to Buddha himself. The name translates to "Holy Relic Monastery on the Glorious Golden Hill” and is licensed as a Royal Historic Treasure – as enshrined within the temple is the Holy Dakkhinamoli Buddha Relic. ‘The Buddha Relics’ are remains of Siddhartha Ghutamma (the devine Buddha) after cremation, distributed to countries of Buddhist faith. Wat Chomtong’s Buddha Relic is an actual piece of skull from the right side Buddha’s skull.
Wat Chom Tong follows the Theravada Buddhist tradition and teaches Satipatthana Vipassana (Insight Meditation based on the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness). A Royal Monastery which Thai Buddhist monks teach Vipassana meditation under the guidance of the venerable Phra Ajahn Thong Sirimangalo. Occupying 20 acres of land, it boasts multiple meditation halls, a dining hall, administrative offices, and sleeping quarters.
Located 60 kilometres from Chiang Mai city, at the foot of Doi Inthanon national park in Chom Tong, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.
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Wat Chomtong
Welcome to
Phra Ajahn Tong Sirimangalo (1923 - 2019)
The Center of Vipassan Meditation Thailand at Wat Chom Tong was founded by Phra Prom Mongkol Vi (Ajahn Tong Sirimangalo) in 1992 and is the main Vipassana Meditation Center in Chiang Mai province and the most commonly sort centre for training from people across Thailand and the globe.
Ajahn Tong is one of Thailand‘s most revered meditation teachers and is respected by religious leaders across many faiths around the world. Ajahn Tong Sirimangalo is the previous Abbot of Wat Chomtong temple as the Principal of the Vipassana Meditation Center has founded his Vipassana practices in over 60 centres around Thailand and the world. Practicing since 11 years of age, Phra Ajahn Thong Sirimangalo devoted his life to developing and perfecting his unique form of Vipassana Meditation and Mindfulness practice in the closest traditions to the teachings of the Buddha.
At the age of 96, Phra Ajahn Thong Sirimangalo passed away on December 13, 2019. His body is situated in Kuti Hatainares in a glass coffin for disciples to pay respect. Where the opening, closing, and wan gon ceremony are also conducted.
Never absent from mind of all his disciples, his presence is felt throughout the halls of the monastery, revered by visitors and his honourable teachings continue to touch each and every student under his learned disciples.
Phra Srisilpajan Dr.
Director of the Vipassana Meditation Center
Vice-Abbot of
Wat Phra That Si Chom Thong Worawihan
Phra Maha Kritsada
Meditation instructor
Phra Chotirat
Officer
@phracho
Phra Maha Buddhi
Meditation instructor Eng
Joy Wu
(Chinese speaker)
Phra Poonsak
Meditation instructor Fr/Eng
Jirapa Poom
Volunteer
(French-Deutsche-English)
Phra Paitoon
Officer
157, moo 2, Chiang Mai-Hod Road, Amphoe Ban Luang, Chom Thong District, Chiang Mai 50160.
