BPS 204 – Intermediate-level Buddhist Studies in Mandarin commences this week at Nalanda Education & Outreach Centres in Happy Garden, Johor Bahru and Sungai Petani. We warmly welcome registered participants for the first lecture at 2.30pm on Saturday, 29 July. Participants are encouraged to arrive 15 minutes earlier for registration. We wish you a joyful learning session.
Read moreOn 21 to 22 July, Nalanda members and volunteers were privileged to host Ven. Ajahn Jayasaro, during a short stopover in Kuala Lumpur, on his way to Medan, Indonesia. Members warmly welcomed Ajahn back to Nalanda Centre, after his last visit before the pandemic began, in 2019.
Read moreThe happiest times we recollect as a family are when we are involved in doing something wholesome and caring together. At Nalanda Education & Outreach Centre in Happy Garden, students of Family Dhamma School gather on Sundays to do just that, accruing many days of joyful moments in the company of each other, facilitators and good spiritual friends.
Read moreWe invite you to join us tomorrow, Monday 24 July, for a Dhamma teaching by Ven. Prof Dhammajoti, a Malaysian monk of Chinese descent, and one of the leading scholars on the Abhidhamma. Ven. Dhammajoti graduated from the University of Kelaniya in Sri Lanka with a doctorate in philosophy. His teaching career started in 1982 as a senior lecturer with the university and became a professor 10 years later.
Read moreAt Wisdom Park’s ‘Open Day’ on 8 and 9 July, 100 Nalanda members and volunteers were privileged to welcome friends and fellow members of the Buddhist Community, and assist them in learning more about this integrated holistic educational campus. With much gratitude in our hearts for their support, we were warmed by everyone’s zeal to make the Buddha’s teachings available to the community, having experienced its efficacy in making lives more meaningful.
Read moreFamily Fun Fair is just a few weeks away, and the community at Nalanda is raring to go! Dhamma School students, youths and devotees have come together to make available for the pre-sales, a variety of food, drinks, plants and daily use items. We invite you to come and support the pre-sales this Sunday 23 July and the following Sundays up to the Fair itself on 13 August.
Read moreOn 8 to 9 July, Nalanda members and volunteers joyfully welcomed members of the Buddhist community to Wisdom Park on its first ‘Open Day’. From small families to groups travelling in busses, volunteers gladly hosted Sangha members, Buddhist leaders, Dhamma speakers, benefactors, volunteers and devotees totaling more than 800 on guided tours throughout the two days.
Read moreWe joyfully invite you to join us this Sunday 23 July for the weekly morning service at Nalanda Centre. The service starts at 9am with meditation, offerings and chanting. This week’s service features a Dhamma teaching by Venerable Subharo, who hails from Canada and was ordained in 2008. He currently resides in Sāsanārakkha Buddhist Sanctuary, a leading monk training centre located in Taiping Perak.
Read moreThroughout the day, Nalandians spent this public holiday meaningfully hosting Venerable monks at Nalanda Centre and Wisdom Park, and providing service to the community.
Read moreOn Tuesday 11 July, Nalanda leaders Sis. Buddhini, Sis. Nandini and Sis. Evelyn together with members of Nalanda Sungai Petani Branch were honoured to host Ven. Ajahn Kalyano, Abbot of Buddha Bodhivana Monastery in East Warburton, Victoria. It was Ajahn’s first visit to Sungai Petani, and devotees up north were privileged to learn from this senior monk of the Ajahn Chah lineage.
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