As part of our Community Outreach programme some MVDF members brought CNY festive cheer to 9 senior citizens from the 7 households whom they had been visiting regularly in Eunos Crescent. Devotees from Mangala Vihara Buddhist Temple had generously contributed more than $500 which were used to purchase CNY goodies, biscuits, canned food, …
The Maha Satipatthana Sutta: The Great Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness is held by many Buddhists to be the most important Sutta dealing with meditation. The Sutta emphasises particularly on the development of Insight. The Buddha begins by declaring the four foundations of mindfulness to be the direct path …
eDhamma.net was officially launched sometime in August 2011. The 2012 annual report provides some statistics on the following: 1. How many new posts did we have? 2. Which was the busiest day of the year & what drew the readers in?? 3. Which were the most read articles in 2012? 4. …
A three-day bonding session-cum-meditation retreat was held from 15th to 17th December 2012 at Samadhi Centre in Pontian. A total of fourteen students from YMBA Senior 1 and the Mandarin class, devotees, and teachers under the mentorship of Bhante Raja were in our midst. “Bhikkus, there are these four kinds …
The Maha Satipatthana Sutta or The Great Discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness is Sutta #22 i n the Digha Nikaya (The Long Discourses of the Buddha). We had our first recitation session of the Sutta on 24 November 2012 and the response was so good, we had the classroom filled …
Bodh Gaya Bodhgaya in North Eastern India is the site of the Buddha’s enlightenment and the most important of four main Buddhist pilgrimage destinations. Known as Uruvela in the Buddha’s time, the city of Bodhgaya is now a town of about 30,000 permanent residents. The two major sacred sites are the Mahabodhi …
The journey continued. . . Lumbini or Rummindel, the local name by which it is now known today, is a sacred place within the territories of the Nepal Government. It is one hundred miles north of Benares within the full sight of the snow-capped Himalayas. It was discovered by General …
At the invitation and with compliments of Mr Goh Teng Seng, we visited Nepal. Incidentally he is a lifelong member of Mangala Vihara Buddhist Temple and his maternal uncle, the late Fong Peck Kew, was the first Chairman of the Committee. Nyanang Phelgyeling Monastery, Kathmandu The trip was a pilgrimage to …
On August 26th 2012, a group of student members from the MVBT Mandarin and English Dhamma Class, devotees and Bhante Raja embarked on a humanitarian day excursion to Johor Bahru. We visited the Amitabha Centre Charity Orphanage, Love Foundation – Home for the Handicapped Children and Metta Lodge Pusat …
We often hear doomsayers predict the end of the world. There are religions too which subscribed to the belief. The most recent prediction came from the Mayan Long Count Calendar, announcing that 2012 is the year of the apocalypse. The fact remains that many doomsday predictions have come and …
