MV Dhamma Fellowship’s Vesak Day 2013 Celebration, a New Milestone

MV Dhamma Fellowship (MVDF) celebrated Vesak Day 2013 with a new milestone-an expanded recruitment exercise. In addition to recruitment for Sunday Dhamma Classes (for both adults and children) and the Youth Group as was done  in previous years (refer to link http://edhamma.net/?p=1541,  we launched the “MV Dhamma Fellowship Recruitment ” exercise targeted …

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News Flash! An Alliance of Two Dhamma Fellowships

The inaugural joint meeting of Mangala Vihara Dhamma Fellowship (MVDF) and Mandarin Buddhist Studies Fellowship (MBSF) held on April 14th 2013 marked a new milestone, the alliance of two Fellowships to share a common platform to foster identical interests and activities in the propagation of the Dhamma and Buddhism. “Bhikkus, …

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Bonding retreat at Samadhi Centre, Pontian

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 …

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MV Bodhi Tree Saplings

I am happy to share these pictures of saplings grown from cuttings taken from our MV Bodhi tree on 27 Sep 2011 after our tree was uprooted during a thunderstorm the night before . Like many, I was saddened by what happened to our Bodhi tree. I asked Ven Cittara for permission to …

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The MV Bodhi Tree Is Gone

In the early morning of 26th August 2011, Monday, I was going through my emails when one terse message stopped me in my strides – “The Bodhi Tree in Mangala Vihara is gone. Brought down by last night’s thunderstorm”. What? Gone??? That Big, Gigantic Bodhi Tree at MV??? Just couldn’t …

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