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tion workshop as unbelievably large. When he an-uthorized his plans to build the Rong·ngahn·tahm·vijja, a supporter offered to sponsor the whole building. Luang Phaw forbade this however, saying that it must be the a collective effort because sponsoring even a single plank or a single nail for the building of the workshop would bring incalculable merit day and night, as the workshop had been built in order to bring an end to Samsara. The first meditation workshop was built in a special enclosure halfway between the main chapel and the Vihāra, close to the Tıpıṭaka tower. It was a small, wooden two-storey building. The upper and lower stories were connected by a duct sufficiently large only to allow Luang Phaw’s voice from the upper level to be audible to those below. On the lower floor there were two rows of six bed (bases) with an aisle sufficiently wide to walk between. The floor was bare earth. By day the nuns would sit in meditation on the bases. By night, mosquito nets would be draped over them to allow the nuns to continue with their meditation unbitten. The same arrangements were made on the upper floor, too, but only Luang Phaw, monks and novices were al-lowed there. There were no stairs between the up-per and lower floors and the entrances to the two floors were separate, so that the male and female meditators had no chance of seeing each other, let alone meeting. The second workshop was a square, single-storey building composed of two twin rooms, side-by-side and separated by a thin partition. Each room was sufficiently large to hold forty meditators. The right hand room contained laymen (upāsaka