Phra Ofer Adi is a monk who has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1983, first at Wat Rampoeng under the guidance of Luang Poh Banyat Akkayano,
thereafter at Wat Chomtong, under the instruction of Ven. Ajarn Tong Sirimangalo (Phrathepsiddhajarn).
Both temples are in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
For several years Phra Ofer taught meditation in Israel before he ordained as a monk in Thailand in 2001, followed by several years as monk and
meditation teacher at a Buddhist temple near Frankfurt, Germany.
Since 2005 Phra Ofer Adi is teaching in his native Israel as well as in various places in the world.
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Edward Kooj has been a practitioner of Vipassana since 1990. He has studied with the late Venerable Phra Banyat Akkayno in Wat Rampoeng,
Chiang Mai and Venerable Ajahn Tong Sirimangalo in Wat Phradhatu Sri Chomtong Voravihara, Chomtong, Chiang Mai.
Since 2000 he has been teaching in Canada and spending the winters teaching in the International Meditation Department at Wat Phradhat Sri Chomtong.
The rest of the year he and his wife, Jodi, live and work in their own tree nursery, Sumana Garden, and as landscape gardener on Hornby Island,
British Columbia, Canada, along with their two greyhounds.
His students esteem his clear and humorous way in teaching the Dhamma.