Participation in a Sanghikadana in Kuala Sawah Monastery

Bro. Wong Ong, Bro. Koy, Bro. Lim and five other friends participated in a Sanghikdadana in Kuala Sawah Monastery in Negeri Sembilan on 1 January 2011. The Ceremony started at around 9:00am. The program included dhamma talk and Q&A, chanting and blessing, offering of robes and requisites to the Sangha and ended with Sanghikadana. The abbot of the monastery, Ven. Cittamano had invited five monks from Penang to participate in this Sanghikadana.

The pagoda at Kuala Sawah Monastery. The Chinese name of the monastery is "静修居“. I forgot to check out its English name.

The monks' quarter

Dhamma talk at the shrine hall. The hall is quite big. Some section of the hall is used as dining hall. You can see that the wall of the hall is only half-height. The Sanghikadana ceremony

I found this magazine at the Kuala Sawah monastery. Its publication (which target Malaysian Buddhists) is sponsored by Original Buddhism Society (原始佛教会） in Taiwan to propagate Theravada Buddhism. The inaugural issue of this magazine was published in July 2010. The society is headquartered in Taipei, it has another centre in Taichung (Taiwan) and a centre in New York, USA. Through this magazine, I came to know that it has set up two centres （中道禅林） in Malaysia last year, one in Penang at 77-3, Lorong Selamat, 10400 Pulau Pinang and another in Ipoh at 61A & 61B, Jln Chung Ah Ming, 31650 Ipoh. Ven. Bhikku Vupasama (随佛法师）is the advisor of the Society. He conducted a series of Mandarin dhamma talks in November/December 2010 at Butterworth Buddhist Association, Seck Kiah Eeh in Malacca, its centre in Ipoh and Penang, and Chempaka Buddhist Lodge in Petaling Jaya.
After the sanghikadana, we invited the five venerables from Penang to visit Vihara Samadhi (located at Section U12, Bukit Raja Industrial Estate).
Group photograph with the five venerables in front of the multipurpose building at Vihara Samadhi. Ven. Pannasammi was standing in the fourth position from right. The construction of the building for the shrine hall is still in progress. We were told by the site engineer that it will be ready by April 2011.