just returned from the college meeting at tiratanaloka.

i'd guess not everybody knows who the public preceptors are these days. in case you were wondering, at the time of writing there are 30. they are (in the order they happened to be sitting)

Saddhaloka,

Mahamati,

Dharmanandi,

Suvajra,

Ratnadharini,

Maitreyi,

Sona,

Ratnaghosha,

Manjuvajra,

Surata

Dhammarati,

Padmavajra,

Nagabodhi,

Parami

Karunamaya,

Padmasuri,

Dayanandi,

Dhammadina

plus

Subhuti

Srimala

Sanghadevi

Sudarshan

Chandrasil

Megha

Varadevi

Kulananda

Moksananda

buddhadasa

Mallika

Kamalasila

i'll write up some of the discussion in the next couple of days. meantime, a photo taken at the end of a question and answer session with bhante (actually four photos joined, rather cleverly i thought, in panorma maker and photoshop. you can see a bigger pic by clicking on it.