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Batesville

Also known as: Batesville, MS, Batesville, Mississippi

A small Mississippi Delta city (~7,500) in Panola County, north Mississippi, ~50 miles south of Memphis. Cotton-economy heritage; today best known internationally as the home of Magnolia Grove Monastery — the southern U.S. monastic practice center in the Plum Village (Thich Nhat Hanh) tradition, on a 120-acre campus with a resident community of 30+ monastics.

What this is

Batesville is a small north-[[mississippi-delta|Mississippi Delta]] city in Panola County, an hour south of Memphis. The cotton-economy history shaped the town through the 19th and 20th centuries; the contemporary [[eating-the-landscape|identity]] has reshaped substantially around Magnolia Grove Monastery’s 120-acre Plum Village–tradition campus founded by Thich Nhat Hanh in 2005 — one of the few residential monastic centers in the American South and one of the most consequential Plum Village outposts in North America.

Listings in Batesville

  • [[magnolia-grove-monastery]] — Plum Village–tradition residential monastery; 30+ monastic disciples of Thich Nhat Hanh

Bioregional context

Files under [[mississippi-delta]] (a new bioregion for [[directory|the directory]]).

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  • Contained by: [[mississippi-delta]]
  • Contains: [[magnolia-grove-monastery]]

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