On Sunday 22 December, Nalandians and devotees were privileged to attend a talk by Dr. Phang Cheng Kar, a practising psychiatrist and a popular Dharma speaker. The title of his talk was ‘Managing the 8 Winds of Change with Equanimity’. In his introduction, Dr. Phang mentioned that all men are subjected to 4 desirable conditions, Gain (labho), Fame (yaso), Praise (pasamsa), and Happiness (sukha), as well as 4 undesirable conditions namely, Loss (alabho), Defame (ayaso), Blame (ninda), and Unhappiness (dukkha). Read more
Nine years ago today, on 26 December 2004, a massive earthquake off Sumatra triggered a Tsunami that swept across 14 countries and killed a quarter million people. It was among the worst natural disasters in human history. But the aftermath of the tragedy saw an outpouring of compassion and donation, which brought out the best aspects of humanity.
Read moreIn conjunction with Bro. Tan’s visit to Kedah, the Pro-tem Committee of Nalanda Kedah Branch met with him on Sunday, 22 December in Sungai Petani to discuss upcoming programmes for next year. In 2014, the committee agreed that they need to build two things – firstly the Nalanda Northern team (people), and secondly the NEO Centre in Sungai Petani (temple).
Read moreA team of 12 Nalandians led by Dharma School Director Sis. Sunanda Ong left Nalanda Centre at 8.00pm this evening for an overnight train ride to Kelantan. The Nalanda team comprising 3 teachers and 9 all-boys student group will stay in Bachok, Kelantan for 5 days to conduct a Dhamma camp for local teenagers. In the meantime, Sis. Sunanda will also conduct a separate training session for Kelantanese Dhamma School volunteer-teachers.
Read moreNalanda Buddhist Society Malaysia offers our felicitations and best wishes to our Christian friends this Christmas! Have a wholesome celebration with much joy and peace.
Read moreOn Saturday 21 December, Nalanda volunteers and devotees participated in our monthly Pindacāra (monks going on alms-round) at the Jalan Besar morning market in Seri Kembangan. Three venerable monks accepted our invitation to go on alms-round for this last scheduled Pindacāra for 2013. Read more
Nalanda Dharma School (NDS) and Nalandians are rejoicing over the achievement of our students who recently received their “Lower Secondary Examination” (PMR) results. Choo Yi Kang and Yeap Heng Yii obtained perfect scores in their exams. Yi Kang obtained 8A’s in his PMR exams, and another 8A’s in his “Unified Examination Certificate” (UEC) exams, making it a perfect attainment of 16A’s. Heng Yii similarly scored A’s in all 15 subjects he took in both exams.
Read moreArticle by Lim Jie Sheng
From 10 – 13 December, 21 students from Nalanda Dharma School joined the holiday ‘Stay-in Programme’ at Nalanda Centre to learn about the importance of Nalanda’s Core Values, Buddhist culture, and to brush up our chanting skills.
Read moreNalanda Free School
The Nalanda Free School was established in June 2010 by a group of dedicated volunteers to provide free tuition and other educational support to academically-weak and needy students. We aim to provide quality teaching by caring tutors, and offer personal attention to help students’ learning and comprehension by offering tutorials in important subjects such as languages, mathematics and science.
Below is the tuition class schedule for 2014. Registration is now open and kindly share this information with your relatives and friends.
Nalanda Centre, Sri Serdang
Secondary School
| Subject | Form/Standard | Day | Time |
| Biology | Form 5 | Monday | 8.00pm – 9.30pm |
| Add. Maths | Form 4 & 5 | Wednesday | 7.00pm – 9.30pm |
| Physics | Form 4 | Tuesday | 3.00pm – 4.30pm |
| Biology | Form 4 | Thursday | 8.00pm – 9.30pm |
| Mathematics | Form 3 | Wednesday | 8.00pm – 9.30pm |
| Mandarin | Form 3 | Tuesday | 3.00pm – 4.30pm |
| English | Form 2 & 3 | Thursday | 8.00pm – 9.30pm |
| Mandarin | Form 1 & 2 | Wednesday | 9.00am – 10.30am |
| B. Malaysia | Form 1 | Friday | 8.00pm – 9.30pm |
Nalanda officers attending an education workshop at Nalanda Centre were brought on a tour of the proposed Nalanda Youth Centre, located just next door to our present premises in Sri Serdang. The facility has been under renovation since last month, and is slated for completion by January 2014.