In some ways, visiting Sravasti Abbey is like visiting a Dharma center or a church. It’s a public place where people gather to hear teachings, learn meditation, and share meals and community.
Sravasti Abbey is also like a private home. Our resident monks, nuns, and trainees live here year-round.
Our Covid policy is designed to protect our guests as well as our residents.
We have adapted the policy along with the changing course of the pandemic, always following CDC guidelines.

The Basic Policy
You must register to visit. Once you arrival date is approved, you should:
- Take a Covid rapid test 3 days before your confirmed arrival date and send a photo of the negative result to the Care Team.
- Test again on the morning of your arrival date and send a photo of the negative result to the Care Team.
- If you have been exposed to Covid or have symptoms of any illness, please delay your visit.
Do you feel sick?
If you have any of these symptoms, please re-schedule your visit:
- Fever or chills
- Cough
- Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
- Fatigue
- Muscle or body aches
- Headache
- New loss of taste or smell
- Sore throat
- Congestion or runny nose
- Nausea or vomiting
- Diarrhea

You are most infectious (or contagious) in the first 5 days after your symptoms start. You can also spread Covid in the 48 hours before your symptoms start. If you never have symptoms, consider yourself most infectious in the 5 days after you test positive.
What if your test is positive?
If you test positive within the 14 days before your planned arrival, do not come.
Wait a full 14 days after a positive test. If you have no symptoms during that time, test again on the 14th day. If your test is negative, begin the procedure for visiting the Abbey.

Have you been exposed to Covid?
If you have been exposed to someone with Covid within 14 days of your visit, regardless of whether you or that person shows Covid symptoms, test yourself 5 days after your exposure with a rapid test.
If you test negative, test again 2 days later. (Often the rapid tests do not register positive if the infection is early and a small number of viruses are present.) Then write us and follow the procedure above.
What if you get sick at the Abbey?
While visiting, if you develop any respiratory symptoms or feel like you have a fever let the Abbey Care Team know immediately.
Our resident nurses will assess the situation and work with you to decide the next best steps.
Learn from books by Ven. Thubten Chodron.
Sravasti Abbey
692 Country Lane
Newport WA 99156 USA
[email protected]
509-447-5549
Also see ThubtenChodron.org