Nalanda Buddhist Society

12 October 2013

The Dama Orchestra Concert is on tonight!

The long-awaited Dama Orchestra’s “Butterfly Lovers – the Musical” is finally showing tonight at Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KL PAC) in Sentul Park, Kuala Lumpur. Nalanda is hosting tonight’s charity performance to raise funds for our Building & Development Fund. We thank you for sponsoring and buying tickets to tonight’s show. The performance begins at 7.45pm. See you later at KL PAC!

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11 October 2013

Coverage of Nalanda Art Exhibition on Tourism TV

The successful Art Exhibition held last weekend at Nalanda Centre was recently broadcast by the Malaysian Tourism TV.  In the video clip, there were interviews with Art Curator Syed Nabil Syed Nahar of NN Gallery, and Yang Wei Han, Director of the documentary project “A Journey of Self Discovery”.

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10 October 2013

‘Vassana’ – the Rains-Retreat

Every year, Theravada bhikkhus worldwide observe the ‘Rains-retreat’ for 3 months, usually from July until October.  Monks who miss the start of ‘Vassana’ in July may begin their ‘second Vassana’ in August and end in November.

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7 October 2013

Nalanda Art Exhibition Successfully Concluded

The inaugural Nalanda Art Exhibition held at Nalanda Centre Sri Serdang over 3 days was successfully concluded at 8pm yesterday (6 October). Since its opening last Friday, a continuous stream of visitors had been coming to the exhibition, many of whom first-time visitors to Nalanda.

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5 October 2013

Nalanda Art Exhibition reported in The EDGE

A leading Malaysian publication 'The Edge' has published a wonderful article on the current Nalanda Art Exhibition. Please click here to read the article on-line.  The full article is also reproduced below.

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5 October 2013

Calligraphy Exhibition reported in the ‘Star Metro’

Dear friends, an article has been published in The Star (Friday, 4 October 2013) on the very successful Chinese Calligraphy Exhibition held last week at Nalanda Centre.  Please click here for the on-line article.

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4 October 2013

Nalanda Art Exhibition opens today

The Nalanda Art Exhibition ‘A Journey of Self Discovery’ is now open at Nalanda Centre, Sri Serdang.  The exhibition will run for 3 days from today until Sunday (4 – 6 October) from 10am to 8pm daily.  The official launching ceremony and tea reception is on Saturday 5 October, at 3pm.  Admission to the Art Exhibition is free, and everyone is welcome!

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3 October 2013

A Moving Memorial Service for Dhamma Teachers

A Memorial Service and Pūja for the late Venerable Prof. Kakkapalliye Anuruddha Nayaka Thero and Acharya S. N. Goenka was conducted at Nalanda Centre on Wednesday, 2 October, with much peace and devotion.

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1 October 2013

Another bright lamp, extinguished.

Venerable Kakkapalliye Anuruddha Nayaka Thero  (1929 – 2013)

Dear friends, with a heavy heart, we would like to inform you that the most Venerable Kakkapalliye Anuruddha Nayaka Thero passed away in Sri Lanka 2 days ago.  His simple funeral was conducted immediately according to his last wishes, without fanfare, much in character with this humble bhikkhu.

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1 October 2013

A tribute to Acharya S. N. Goenka

Article written by Bro. H S Tan

Renowned Vipassana Meditation Teacher, Acharya S. N. Goenka, passed away peacefully in Mumbai, India on Sunday, 29 September 2013 (early Monday, 30 September, Malaysian time).  He was 90.

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