Nalanda Buddhist Society management and members wish everyone a “Happy Lunar New Year” with the blessings of Dhamma! May you and your loved ones enjoy good health, success and peace in the year ahead. Travel safe and enjoy your holidays with family and friends. Sukhihontu!
Read moreThe few days leading to the arrival of Lunar New Year have traditionally been a time for Nalandians to gather to wish each other a joyful celebration before everyone heads home for reunion with family and friends. On Tuesday 24 January, the New Year ‘couplet’ was unveiled before the start of evening chanting in the Shrine Hall at Nalanda Centre. It was indeed a lively and cheerful event for devotees in Sri Serdang.
Read moreWe would like to inform you that Nalanda Centre, Youth Centre and Pustaka Nalanda (the Library) in Sri Serdang will be closed for a week from Thursday, 26 January to Wednesday, 1 February for the Lunar New Year holidays. The Centre and Library will reopen on Thursday, 2 February at 10am. We wish everyone a joyous celebration of Lunar New Year! May you and your loved ones be well and happy always.
Read moreThere was good cheer all around on Sunday 22 January as Nalanda members and devotees gathered in Sri Serdang on the last Sunday before the Lunar New Year. Bro. Tan gave an insightful talk on the ‘recipe’ for the best-ever celebration of the season – a chance to experience spirituality at every turn with our sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, thinking, and feeling.
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Read moreIn conjunction with Nalanda ‘Education Day’, 35 Nalanda officers gathered at Nalanda Centre on 12 December 2016 for the second-ever Nalanda Education Workshop. The aim of the workshop was to chart and align the direction of all Nalanda education divisions in accordance with the ‘Nalanda Education Philosophy’.
Read moreSince our inception in 2003, Nalanda has been continuously organising and offering Dhamma courses, training programmes and other educational services that benefit the entire community. All our programmes are freely available to the public as Nalanda is a non-profit, service-oriented organisation that aims to provide holistic education for integral human development.
Read moreOn 13 January, Bro. Tan paid a visit to Nalanda Book Café in Sri Petaling to observe its staff training programme. Several Nalandian youths who were volunteering there were pleasantly surprised by his presence. Bro. Tan spent an hour chatting with the crew and volunteers to listen to their plans and aspirations. He encouraged everyone to work gradually but diligently to fulfil their personal potential and realise noble aspirations at the same time.
Read moreToday marks the 25th anniversary of Ajahn Chah’s passing. Thousands of his disciples and students returned to Wat Pah Pong in Ubon Ratchathani to observe the occasion with meditation, Dhamma teaching, and merit making. Among the senior disciples present were Luang Phor Liem, successor to Ajahn Chah as Abbot of Wat Pah Pong, and Luang Phor Sumedho, Ajahn Chah’s senior-most Western disciple and the first Abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat.
Read more16 January 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of Ajahn Chah’s passing. Venerable Ajahn was one of the most revered and influential Buddhist teachers in the modern era. He was a doyen of the “forest tradition” who attracted many Thai and foreign practitioners to be ordained under him.
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