This is a small monastery not far off of the famous historic route 66 on the edge of Amarillo. During my visit, I practiced a few minutes of chanting as I walked around the stupa then chatted briefly with a lay attendant in the Dhamma hall, which had a second stupa curiously made of hundreds of bottles of water.
Although I saw one monk on the property, due to a significant language barrier I was unable to learn much about the history of the monastery. As I sought to learn a bit more, I was later delighted to find an online photo of one of the senior monks from Chaiya Meditation Monastery at the Amarillo monastery. I suppose the fellowship of Burmese monks in the U.S. is a closeknit one.
