Members of Nalanda Johor Bahru Branch will convene for their Branch Annual General Meeting on Sunday 12 March at 2pm. The meeting will be held at Nalanda Education and Outreach (NEO) Centre, Johor Jaya and is an important platform for members to discuss and plan for the year ahead. For more information, kindly contact your Branch Secretary. May you have a joyful and fruitful meeting.
Read moreOn Friday 10 February, Nalanda Centre was priviledged to host Professor Stephen Jenkins for a special lecture on “The power of great compassion”. Prof. Jenkins, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Humboldt State University, shared that compassion is a definitive quality of Buddhism and is uniquely paired with wisdom, having studied the topic of compassion for over three decades.
Read moreOn Wednesday 15 February, Nalanda Centre was honoured to welcome Ven. Ajahn Dhammasiha back to Nalanda Centre for a Dhamma talk. Following the evening chanting, Ajahn started by advising us to take heed when we face the realities of life – aging, sickness and death, because these are reminders to arouse urgency to progress along the spiritual journey.
Read moreTomorrow, on Monday 20 January, over 400,000 students will start their SPM (‘O’–Level) exams, a major milestone public examination in Malaysia for secondary school students. Nalanda wishes our Dhamma School and Free School students who are sitting for the exams as well as other candidates throughout the country – all the best!
Read moreMembers of Nalanda Kuala Lumpur Branch will convene for their Branch Annual General Meeting on Sunday 5 March at 2pm. The meeting will be held at Nalanda Education and Outreach (NEO) Centre, Happy Garden and is an important platform for members to discuss and plan for the year ahead.
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 academic year 2023, we are pleased to announce that registration is now open for classes which will commence end March.
Read moreMembers of Nalanda Sungai Petani Branch will convene for their Branch Annual General Meeting on Saturday 4 March at 11am. The meeting will be held at Nalanda Education and Outreach (NEO) Centre, Sungai Petani and is an important platform for members to discuss and plan for the year ahead.
Read moreOn Sunday 5 February, we were honoured to host Ven. Dr. Santacitto, from Indonesia, for a Dhamma talk during the Sunday Morning Service, on how understanding Dependant Origination (Paticca-Samuppada) can lead us to happiness and peace.
Read moreOn 3 to 4 February, Nalanda members were privileged to host 11 monks from the ‘Sangha Theravada Indonesia’ (STI) and 5 Indonesian friends on a visit to Nalanda. The monks hailed from various provinces across the Indonesian islands, where they have been serving the local communities under the guidance of the Sangha Governance Council of STI.
Read moreOn Sunday 12 February, 35 Nalanda leaders and members paid their last respects to the late Ven. Master Hsing Yun at Fo Guang Shan Dong Zen Temple (佛光山東禪寺). Nalanda Buddhist Society Malaysia stands in solidarity with our brothers and sisters at Fo Guang Shan in paying tribute to a great monk who stood as a beacon of inspiration to the Buddhist community, illuminating the world with his wisdom and compassion.
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