Pertaining to Nalanda Education & Outreach Centres programmes and activities in KL, JB and SP.
Nalanda Buddhist Society Kuala Lumpur Branch held its inaugural General Meeting of members (AGM) on 11 January, at Nalanda Education & Outreach (NEO) Centre in Happy Garden. The pivotal agenda of this AGM was the election of the Branch Management Committee for 2014 – 2016. Nalandians voted for a set of leaders that retained the key offices of Chairman and Deputy Chairman. The whole election proceeded joyfully.
Read moreSaturday 4 January was a meaningful day for Nalandians and devotees who were gathered at the Taman O.U.G and Happy Garden markets to offer alms-food to members of the Sangha. The monthly alms-round allows lay people to do good deeds with kind intentions and actions. Cheerfulness was what we saw from the faces of the elderly and the young.
Read moreA Career and Education Workshop was held on the 4 and 5 January at NEO Centre Johor Bahru. Mr. Lok Eng Hong, Regional Head of Dealing & Retail Equities of Maybank Investment Bank, conducted the two-day programme.
Read moreNalanda Free School classes started in earnest yesterday (Thursday, 2 January) at Nalanda Centre Sri Serdang and NEO Centre Happy Garden, Kuala Lumpur. Sessions run from Mondays to Fridays with passionate volunteer teachers guiding small numbers of students in each class, to enable maximum student-teacher interaction.
Read moreIn conjunction with Bro. Tan’s visit to Kedah, the Pro-tem Committee of Nalanda Kedah Branch met with him on Sunday, 22 December in Sungai Petani to discuss upcoming programmes for next year. In 2014, the committee agreed that they need to build two things – firstly the Nalanda Northern team (people), and secondly the NEO Centre in Sungai Petani (temple).
Read moreNalanda Free School
The Nalanda Free School was established in June 2010 by a group of dedicated volunteers to provide free tuition and other educational support to academically-weak and needy students. We aim to provide quality teaching by caring tutors, and offer personal attention to help students’ learning and comprehension by offering tutorials in important subjects such as languages, mathematics and science.
Below is the tuition class schedule for 2014. Registration is now open and kindly share this information with your relatives and friends.
Nalanda Centre, Sri Serdang
Secondary School
| Subject | Form/Standard | Day | Time |
| Biology | Form 5 | Monday | 8.00pm – 9.30pm |
| Add. Maths | Form 4 & 5 | Wednesday | 7.00pm – 9.30pm |
| Physics | Form 4 | Tuesday | 3.00pm – 4.30pm |
| Biology | Form 4 | Thursday | 8.00pm – 9.30pm |
| Mathematics | Form 3 | Wednesday | 8.00pm – 9.30pm |
| Mandarin | Form 3 | Tuesday | 3.00pm – 4.30pm |
| English | Form 2 & 3 | Thursday | 8.00pm – 9.30pm |
| Mandarin | Form 1 & 2 | Wednesday | 9.00am – 10.30am |
| B. Malaysia | Form 1 | Friday | 8.00pm – 9.30pm |
11 December 2013 marks the second anniversary of Nalanda’s first branch facility – the NEO Centre in Happy Garden. We would like to thank all volunteers and devotees for your kind support, services, contributions and encouragement given us over the past two years.
Read moreOn Sunday 8 December, Ayya Susīla gave two uplifting talks to Nalandians. The first talk was at Nalanda Centre, “From Darkness to Light“, and the second one in Mandarin was at NEO Centre Happy Garden, “如何面对生活中的烦恼”. Devotees were delighted with the simple and easy-going way of Ayya’s Dhamma teaching. Nalanda’s Deputy President Bro. Lee Teck Beng and Nalanda KL Branch Deputy Chairman Bro. Rudy Gan, together with many other officers, were at Nalanda to receive Ayya Susīla. Sadhu!
Read moreOn Saturday 7 December, Nalanda volunteers and devotees participated joyfully in our monthly Pindacāra (monks going on alms-round) at Taman O.U.G. and Happy Garden morning markets. We were very honoured to receive 3 senior monks on alms-round, including the Abbot of Sri Lanka Buddhist Temple Ven. Sri Saranankara Nayaka Thero, and Abbot of Tusita Hermitage Ven. U Mangala.
Read moreOver the past weekend on 7 – 8 December, the Director of Nalanda Dharma School (NDS) Sis. Sunandā Ong led 4 NDS facilitators (Sis. Sugandhā, Sis. Sadhikā, Sis. Hui Shien and Bro. Willie) on a visit to NEO Centre Johor Bahru. The NDS team had several insightful discussions with Nalanda Johor Branch members on “Quality Volunteer Service“.
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