With the new 2024 year just around the corner, we invite you to join us for Dhamma programmes in January and note them in your calendar. Let us take these opportunities to start the year by learning and reflecting on the Buddha’s profound teachings with respected Sangha and lay teachers, as well as to train the mind towards inner peace and joy. See you at Nalanda!
Read moreAs this year ends and the new year dawns, let us take some time to reflect, express gratitude, and radiate loving-kindness to the whole world. Join us at Nalanda Centre to ‘calm-down’ to the new year with good spiritual friends this Sunday 31 December, at the New Year Eve Service. The programme starts at 11pm and includes chanting, meditation and sharing of merits.
Read moreNalanda Free School has been providing free tuition, quality teaching, personal attention, and other educational support to academically weak and needy students since 2010. For the coming 2024 academic year, Free School tuition class schedules at Sri Serdang and Johor Bahru are firmed up and available at https://www.nalanda.org.my/free-school/ for your reference.
Read moreOver the last holiday weekend, from 22 to 26 December, over 80 participants and volunteers gathered at Wisdom Park for the Meditation Retreat led by Luang Por Viradhammo, jointly organised with Dhamma Connect. With Luang Por’s close guidance and advice, yogis better understood how to develop moment to moment awareness and put it into practice in the meditation sessions throughout the five days.
Read moreNalanda Buddhist Society wishes all our Christian friends a “Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year”! May your reunions with friends and family be filled with love, happiness and goodwill. Let us reflect wisely and grow spiritually to become better people and contribute towards building harmonious communities.
Read moreOn Tuesday 19 December, Nalanda members and devotees joyfully welcomed Luang Por Viradhammo, Abbot of Tisarana Monastery in Ottawa back to Nalanda, 4 years after his last visit. Grateful to learn from Luang Por in person, the congregation listened attentively to his talk about training the mind and to experience stillness within.
Read moreEvery year on 31 December, Nalanda Dhamma School observes its “Appreciation & Honours Day” with facilitators, students and parents coming together to express their gratitude for each other, and to thank everyone for their dedication to Dhamma learning. This year, for the first time, parents and children of the inaugural intake of Family Dhamma School will also be part of this endearing programme.
Read more22 December 2023 marks the 4th anniversary of the passing of Venerable Dhammavuddho Mahāthera, a Malaysian monk of Chinese descent who dedicated his life to the Dhamma. Ordained in the Theravada tradition in 1986, he founded Vihara Buddha Gotama, a forest monastery in Perak dedicated to the practice and propagation of the Buddha’s discourses and monastic discipline.
Read moreFrom 15 – 17 December, 20 leaders and core members of Nalanda Youth Centre retreated to Wisdom Park to review how the Youth Centre has progressed in 2023 and to prepare themselves for the year ahead.
Read moreWe joyfully invite you and your loved ones to join us for a Dhamma talk by Ven. Prof. K.L. Dhammajoti, a Malaysian monk of Chinese descent and a leading scholar on the Abhidhamma, on Sunday 31 December at Nalanda Centre. Let us gather on this final Sunday Morning Service of the year to learn from Ven. Dhammajoti on the topic of “The Buddhist spiritual journey to true freedom — transformation of the total being” with spiritual friends.
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