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SJBA Educare Program on 6th December 2015
This year SJBA Educare Program in SJBA will be held on 6 December 2015 to provide poor students with school items to start the new school term. It is expected that about 500 to 600 needy students will receive the school items on 6 December 2015. Each student will receive a full set of school items which consists of school bags, shoes, books, stationary, etc. which costs about RM100.00. The amount may not be a lot but it is a simple yet significant gesture of ours to show our care and concern to poor students. We hope that through this simple but sincere gesture, the students are motivated to study better and achieve academic success and eventually success in life.
If you wish to contribute to this Educare Program,please contact Sis Lily at Tel. 03-56315299 or bank into CIMB (a/c : 1261 0000 122 052).
Thank you in advance for your support. May your generosity and the merits accrued from your good deeds brings you peace, harmony, success, good health and happiness always!
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Announcements (Wednesday, 5 Aug 2015)
1. To-date SJBA have received donations of about RM 2.96 million for its Building Extension. The cost of construction of the new building is RM5 million. We look forward for more help to raise the balance in order for us to successfully complete the construction of the new building by June 2016.
2. Amongst various ways to raise funds for the construction of the new block, SJBA has an on-going “Donate a Brick” campaign. Each brick is RM100. The donors can write their name and sign on the bricks which will be used for the construction of the new block. For further information, please call Sis Lily at 03-56348181.
3. In conjunction with the 7th Lunar Month, SJBA is organising a Pattidana (Dedication of Merits) Ceremony on 23 August 2015 (Sunday) for the departed ones. When those departed relatives and friends, who may been reborn in certain unfortunate state of existence, become aware that their departed relatives performing meritorious deeds dedicated to them, they can feel relief. If they rejoice repeatedly, their unhappy birth can be transformed into a happy one. It is the duty of relatives to perform acts of merits for the departed ones. The program will start at 8.00am with the offering of flowers, candles and pure water, followed by Pindacara, chanting, Dhamma Talk, offering of requisites, dedication of merits to the departed ones and followed by Blessings by the Sangha and lunch dana. All are welcome to partake in this Pattidana
4. In conjunction with the 58th Merdeka Day Celebration in SJBA on 31 August 2013 and to encourage our members’ children to strive for excellence in their academic performance, SJBA will present Academic Excellence Awards to students who excelled in their examinations in 2014. The Awards will be given out on Merdeka Day, 31 August 2015.
On the same day, SJBA is also organizing a Blessings Service for students sitting for UPSR, PT3, SPM, STPM, etc. examinations this year. The Blessings will be conducted by the Venerable Sangha Members.
5. This Sunday (9/8/15, 10.00am) Dhamma Talk (in English) on the topic “Longing for Happiness” will be given by Venerable Mahacara who will be residing in SJBA for the Vassa (Rains Retreat). During this 3-month period, Venerable Mahacara will be cultivating himself in SJBA Vihara as well as teaching devotees the Dhamma.
6. This Sunday’s Dhamma Talk in Mandarin (at 11.30am) is on “Together We Make the Difference” by Chew Yee Yean. Sis Chew Yee Yean graduated from UKM. She is now working as a Senior Biochemist at UMMC.
这个星期日的讲题是“风雨同路”, 讲师是周怡燕居士. 怡燕居士 毕业于马来西亚国民大学，她现 今 在 马大医药中心担任高级生物化学师。在这十年以来，她志愿地帮忙与宣扬佛法等义务，希 望能增进大家对佛法的认识与了解.
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Fund Raising for Nepal Earthquake Victims
Fellow Brothers & Sisters in the Dhamma,
A devastating 7.9 earthquake in Nepal on 25 April 2015 has destroyed many homes and lives and render thousands homeless. To-date more than 4,000 has died and the death toll is still rising. Countless thousands of traumatised people, especially the children, have to spend the cold nights out on the streets, in open spaces, frightened that the weakened buildings may collapse. They need our help.
SJBA is organising to raise funds in aid of the Nepal’s earthquake victims. Cash donations can be bank into Subang Jaya Buddhist Association Bank A/C: CIMB 12610000122052. (Please indicate behind cheque “For Nepal Earthquake Victims). Please request for receipts by forwarding your bank slip and name of donor.
You can also donate tents, blankets, clothing (new please), instant food, dry foodstuff, canned food, cooking oil (no rice and sugar plea
se as they are controlled items in Nepal), for Nepal earth quake victims. For quicker logistics, please send direct to Sri Lanka Buddhist Temple, Sentul from 4th to 8th May 2015. If it is not convenient for you to do so, SJBA can also help to collect (from 4th to 7th May) and resend to Sentul .
The cash donations and the above items will be sent to Vishwa Shanti Vihara, Kathmandu (Abbot: Sayadaw Nyanapurnik and/or Charumati Buddha Vihara, Kathmandu (Abbot: Ven. Tapassi) or the Fo Guang Shan New Delhi.
May these good deeds of yours fruition to bless you abundantly!
Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!
(Note: SJBA is part of the Malaysian Buddhist Joint Relief Effort in aid of Nepal Earthquake Victims, a joint effort of the major Buddhist organisations in Malaysia)
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Dhamma Talk by Bhante Sujatha Thero
Wednesday, 24 Sep 2014:
Bhante Sujatha Thero shared a evening of Dhamma in a lighthearted and fun manner, complete with his easy to recall analogies of the “Owl”, and “Volcano”. Bhante shared candidly and from the bottom of his heart – his journey to USA and Buddhism, from his adoption by a Zen teacher, learning English from children, providing meditation classes in a church and more.
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