Nalanda Youth Centre

28 February 2024

Bountiful joy & gratitude at tea-ceremony

Nalanda Dhamma School marked the start of their 2024 year with a tea-ceremony on Sunday, 25 February.  The day started with communal chanting before forming individual learning groups – Bro. Tan Siang Chye delivered a talk on parenting based on the Buddha’s teachings, Bro. Disheng delivered a talk to the Youths on the duties of a child to their parents, while the Dhamma School conducted their sessions with the teenage and junior students.

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25 February 2024

Happy Young Adults Programme – sign up now!

Do you feel strained at work and want to find out how to cope better?  Perhaps you are facing challenges and would like to learn from others how to overcome them.  Come and join the ‘Happy Young Adults’ Programme, organised by Nalanda Youth Centre for young adults to learn how to manage stress at work and in life, and to excel in well-being. 

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8 February 2024

Youths learn about mindfulness with Bro. Jeff Oliver

On Sunday 28 January, youths gathered at Nalanda Youth Centre to learn from Bro. Jeff Oliver, a Vipassana meditation teacher.  Bro. Jeff shared the importance of maintaining mindfulness in our daily lives as much as we can, in order to train the mind to stay in the present moment.  This helps us to gradually understand the realities of life, and greatly enables our progress in meditation.

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31 January 2024

Register for ‘Happy Young Adults’ Programme

Come and join the ‘Happy Young Adults’ Programme organised by Nalanda Youth Centre for young working adults.  This 3-month programme is a platform to  help participants equip themselves with the right understanding and principles for overcoming challenges at work and achieve well-being in life.

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24 January 2024

Spirit of sportsmanship shines on ‘Sports Day’

On Sunday 21 January, Nalanda Youth Centre hosted the year’s first Sports Day.  Over 60 youths and Dhamma School students had an exciting morning at Taman Tasik Sri Serdang putting to test their skills in effective communicating, ability to work in teams and camaraderie. 

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20 December 2023

Youth leaders fuel-up for the year ahead

From 15 – 17 December, 20 leaders and core members of Nalanda Youth Centre retreated to Wisdom Park to review how the Youth Centre has progressed in 2023 and to prepare themselves for the year ahead. 

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2 December 2023

F.U.N. completes its run with blessings

The Fellowship Undergraduate Network (F.U.N.) programme completed its 6-session run on Saturday 18 November.  This specially planned programme for university students enabled participants to explore the theme of ‘Leading with Purpose’ and to cultivate leadership qualities for personal and professional success.

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25 November 2023

Farewell & safe journeys to our Ladakhi friends

Earlier this morning, Ven. Sanghasena and participants of the Jambudvipa-Suvarnabhumi Buddhist Youth Exchange Programme (YEP) have set off for Singapore on the final leg of the exchange programme.  Nalanda leaders and youths bade a heartfelt farewell to our dear friends, with whom  strong bonds of friendship have emerged through 10 days of learning, reflection and camaraderie.

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23 November 2023

Ven. Sanghasena leads pindacāra at O.U.G & Happy Garden

On Saturday 18 November, Nalanda Kuala Lumpur Branch was honoured to host Ven. Sanghasena for pindacāra (monks on alms-round) at the local morning markets.  Market-goers and vendors who were familiar with the monthly programme (held on the first Saturday of every month) joyfully offered requisites to the Sangha, with gratitude for the added opportunity to do good.

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22 November 2023

Y.E.P. guided in meditation by Ven. Mettananda

On Friday 17 November, Nalanda members and devotees joined the participants of the Jambudvipa-Suvarnabhumi Buddhist Youth Exchange Programme (YEP), for Meditation Night led by Ven. Mettananda.  Sharing the importance and benefit of meditation, Ven. Mettananda started by asking how accurate we think our perception of reality is and pointed out that historically, widely believed ‘realities’ have been overturned such as the perception that the world is flat.

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