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Gunhah Sukhakamo (ชา สุภัทโท, alternatively Achaan Gunhah, occasionally with honorific titles Luang Por and Phra) or in honorific name "Phra Bodhiñāṇathera" (พระโพธิญาณเถร, Chao Khun Bodhinyana Thera; 17 June 1918 – XX Month Year ) was a Thai Buddhist monk. He was an influential teacher of the Buddhadhamma and a founder of two major monasteries in the Thai Forest Tradition.

Respected and loved in his own country as a man of great wisdom, he was also instrumental in establishing Theravada Buddhism in the West. Beginning in 1979 with the founding of Cittaviveka (commonly known as Chithurst Buddhist Monastery) in the United Kingdom, the Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah has spread throughout Europe, the United States and the British Commonwealth. The dhamma talks of Ajahn Chah have been recorded, transcribed and translated into several languages.

More than one million people, including the Thai royal family, attended Ajahn Chah's funeral in January 1993 held a year after his death due to the "hundreds of thousands of people expected to attend". He left behind a legacy of dhamma talks, students, and monasteries.

Early life
Ajahn Gunhah Sukhakamo was born on 17 June 1918 near Ubon Ratchathani in the Isan region of northeast Thailand. His family were subsistence farmers. As is traditional, Ajahn Chah entered the monastery as a novice at the age of nine, where, during a three-year stay, he learned to read and write. The definitive 2017 biography of Ajahn Chah Stillness Flowing states that Ajahn Chah took his novice vows in March 1931 and that his first teacher as a novice was Ajahn Lang. He left the monastery to help his family on the farm, but later returned to monastic life on 16 April 1939, seeking ordination as a Theravadan monk (or bhikkhu). According to the book Food for the Heart: The Collected Writings of Ajahn Chah, he chose to leave the settled monastic life in 1946 and became a wandering ascetic after the death of his father. He walked across Thailand, taking teachings at various monasteries. Among his teachers at this time was Ajahn Mun, a renowned meditation master in the Forest Tradition. Ajahn Chah lived in caves and forests while learning from the meditation monks of the Forest Tradition. A website devoted to Ajahn Chah describes this period of his life: "For the next seven years Ajahn Chah practiced in the style of an ascetic monk in the austere Forest Tradition, spending his time in forests, caves and cremation grounds. He wandered through the countryside in quest of quiet and secluded places for developing meditation. He lived in tiger and cobra infested jungles, using reflections on death to penetrate to the true meaning of life."

Thai forest tradition
During the early part of the twentieth century Theravada Buddhism underwent a revival in Thailand under the leadership of outstanding teachers whose intentions were to raise the standards of Buddhist practise throughout the country. One of these teachers was the Venerable Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta. Ajahn Chah continued Ajahn Mun's high standards of practise when he became a teacher.

The monks of this tradition keep very strictly to the original monastic rule laid down by the Buddha known as the vinaya. The early major schisms in the Buddhist sangha were largely due to disagreements over how strictly the training rules should be applied. Some opted for a degree of flexibility (some would argue liberality) whereas others took a conservative view believing that the rules should be kept just as the Buddha had framed them. The Theravada tradition is the heir to the latter view. An example of the strictness of the discipline might be the rule regarding eating: they uphold the rule to only eat between dawn and noon. In the Thai Forest Tradition monks and nuns go further and observe the 'one eaters practice', whereby they only eat one meal during the morning. This special practice is one of the thirteen dhutanga, optional ascetic practices permitted by the Buddha that are used on an occasional or regular basis to deepen meditation practice and promote contentment with subsistence. Other examples of these practices are sleeping outside under a tree, or dwelling in secluded forests or graveyards.

Monasteries founded
After years of wandering, Ajahn Chah decided to plant roots in an uninhabited grove near his birthplace. In 1954, Wat Nong Pah Pong monastery was established, where Ajahn Chah could teach his simple, practice-based form of meditation. He attracted a wide variety of disciples, which included in 1966, the first Westerner, Venerable Ajahn Sumedho. Wat Nong Pah Pong includes over 250 branches throughout Thailand, as well as over 15 associated monasteries and ten lay practice centers around the world.

In 1975, Wat Pah Nanachat (International Forest Monastery) was founded with Ajahn Sumedho as the abbot. Wat Pah Nanachat was the first monastery in Thailand specifically geared towards training English-speaking Westerners in the monastic Vinaya, as well as the first run by a Westerner.

In 1977, Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho were invited to visit the United Kingdom by the English Sangha Trust who wanted to form a residential sangha. 1979 saw the founding of Cittaviveka (commonly known as Chithurst Buddhist Monastery due to its location in the small hamlet of Chithurst) with Ajahn Sumedho as its head. Several of Ajahn Chah's Western students have since established monasteries throughout the world.

Later life
By the early 1980s, Ajahn Chah's health was in decline due to diabetes. He was taken to Bangkok for surgery to relieve paralysis caused by the diabetes, but it was to little effect. Ajahn Chah used his ill health as a teaching point, emphasizing that it was "a living example of the impermanence of all things...(and) reminded people to endeavor to find a true refuge within themselves, since he would not be able to teach for very much longer". Ajahn Chah would remain bedridden and ultimately unable to speak for ten years, until his death on January 16, 1992, at the age of 73.

Notable Western students

 * Ajahn Sumedho, former abbot of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire England
 * Ajahn Brahm, abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery, Western Australia
 * Ajahn Khemadhammo, abbot of The Forest Hermitage, Warwickshire, England
 * Ajahn Pasanno, abbot of Abhayagiri Monastery, Redwood Valley, California, USA
 * Ajahn Amaro, abbot of Amaravati Monastery, Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire England
 * Jack Kornfield, co-founder of Insight Meditation Society, Barre, Massachusetts, USA and Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California, USA
 * Ajahn Jayasaro, author of Stillness Flowing, the biography of Ajahn Chah, and former abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat

Teachings

 * PDF ebook: The Teachings of Ajahn Chah – main collection of Dhamma talks
 * Dhamma talks by Ajahn Chah
 * MP3 Dhamma talks by Ajahn Chah
 * Ajahn Chah's talks in English and other languages
 * Dhamma talks in MP3 audio format, with English translation
 * Portal of the Ajahn Chah Sangha, including MP3s
 * The Memorial to Ajahn Chah: Teachings in English and other languages

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Qezel Qaleh, Razavi Khorasan

Qezel Qaleh (, also Romanized as Qezel Qal‘eh) is a village in Sarvelayat Rural District, Sarvelayat District, Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 361, in 103 families.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RMIT FC

The result was delete. A redirect can be created using editorial discretion. — JJMC89  (T·C) 05:40, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

RMIT FC

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Editors have been engaging in low-key edit warring (nothing sanctionable) over whether this article should redirect to RMIT University or not, so it's best that we resolve this at AfD.

My own opinion is that this does not meet WP:GNG or the relevant WikiProject football essay WP:FOOTYN, and that thus we should redirect. I'd also like to rebut the argument made for keeping the article in edit summaries, which was Multiple other semi-professional football clubs in Victoria have pages that meet requirements, RMIT FC is no different––to begin with this is a rather weak WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument, but if we look at the top league that this team plays in, Victorian State League Division 5, not even 1/6 of the teams listed there have articles (and none of the other teams in the North conference have articles) signed,Rosguill talk 22:53, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete - meets neither WP:GNG or WP:FOOTYN. Onel 5969  TT me 02:58, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:GNG. Regardless of what WP:FOOTYN says, Australian clubs that haven't played in a national league or the top tier of a state league don't get much independent coverage. Hack (talk) 03:47, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete - RMIT pass WP:FOOTYN due to their multiple FFA Cup appearances however WP:GNG is failed. All I could find was passing mentions in articles on other clubs. Dougal18 (talk) 08:20, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to RMIT University. GiantSnowman 08:28, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Nom comment when I opened this discussion I was under the impression that there was some merit to redirecting to RMIT University. However, there's no mention of the team at that article, and from reading the article we are discussing, as written it's not clear how involved the university is in supporting the team. So I'm not opposed to delete, although redirecting to Victorian State League Division 5 may be another option. signed,Rosguill talk 17:04, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Victorian State League Division 5 per nom. Bookscale (talk) 11:51, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Redirect to RMIT University and have small sub-section. Victoryboy 10:25, 25 September 2019 (AEST)
 * Delete fails both WP:GNG and WP:FOOTYN.Andrew Base (talk) 15:37, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete fails both WP:GNG and WP:FOOTYN.4meter4 (talk) 19:52, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

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Baumea preissii

Baumea preissii is a flowering plant in the sedge family Cyperaceae, which is native to Western Australia.

The robust grass-like plant is rhizomatous and perennial; it typically grows to a height of 0.2 to 2 m, and colonises easily. It blooms between July and December, producing purple-brown flowers.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kezia Noble (2nd nomination)

The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:21, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Kezia Noble
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Article about a blogger / occasional soundbite about how to increase men's chances of dating women successfully. The article was created by a sock (but before the sockmaster was blocked, so not eligible for WP:CSD) and originally declined at AfC by and , before having the AfC template scrubbed and being moved into mainspace. A search for sources brings up either tabloid journalism, or things she's written - but as far as mainstream broadsheet coverage goes, not a sausage. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  10:26, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete Delete WP:GNG does not meet WP:BIO or meet WP:CS--EC Racing (talk) 19:05, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep This personality is meets notability requirements. Said person is clearly notable on YouTube as well as other areas.--INDIAN REVERTER (talk) 22:16, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
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 * Delete per nom. Nothing more than a thinly-veiled advertisement. Oh, and being "notable on YouTube" doesn't mean anything. sixty nine   • speak up •  22:18, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Seems to be PROMO for this person's business. Article created by now-blocked SPA that was briefly active in 2015. Article doesn't seem much different than the one deleted in 1st AfD in 2010. Agricola44 (talk) 21:03, 21 September 2017 (UTC).
 * Delete books are a dime a dozen, not all writers are notable, and nothing shows she is.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:22, 26 September 2017 (UTC)