The abbot of Than Hsiang Temple, Venerable Wei Wu, had heard of His Eminence, Drubwang Konchok Norbu Rinpoche and called on Bro. Chooi Shee Hoong, President of Ratnashri Buddhist Centre in Petaling Jaya, to invite His Eminence to perform the 100 Million Mani Puja at Than Hsiang Temple to coincide with the opening ceremony of the Temple's Main Shrine Hall on 1 December 2002.

Bhante Sujato is an Australian Buddhist monk. He was ordained in Thailand at Wat Pa Nanachat in the forest tradition of Ajahn Chah. He spent several years in Thailand, lived with Ajahn Brahmavamso in Perth for three years and spent over a year in Sukhavana cave monastery in Ipoh, Malaysia.

The Klintiendharma Foundation of Thailand organized a Dharma Talk by Venerable Wei Wu at the Multi Purpose Hall of International Buddhist College on 13 November 2005. This is the first time the foundation organized such talks and around 200 devotees from Southern Thailand attended the talk.

At noon on 19 November 2005, registration for the Seven Day Amitabha Recitation Retreat began with an early group of thirty participants. By the end of registration at 3.00pm in the Great Compassion Hall, a total of 184 participants had registered themselves for the Retreat. The majority of the participants were ladies and about a third of the participants were over 60 years in age.

Up in the Main Shrine Hall of Than Hsiang Temple on a Sunday morning of 6th November 2005, seventeen boys and girls as well as their parents gathered for the Sunday School Graduation ceremony.

A group of more than a hundred people from the Firefly Mission of Singapore visited Than Hsiang on 3rd November 2005. Sisters Heng Boi Sim and Koh Bee Ling took them on a tour of Than Hsiang starting with Wan Ching Yuen Centre, where they sang some songs with the old folks there and presented the old folks with presents.

Later Sis Koh introduced the Firefly Mission group to Than Hsiang Fund’s four-fold core activities of providing Education, Welfare, Cultivation, and ICT (Information, Communication & Technology).

She also briefed them on Than Hsiang’s Conviction of:

The Than Hsiang Kindergarten held graduation ceremony and annual concert on 22nd October 2005 in the Multi Purpose Hall of Than Hsiang Temple, Penang. The hall was packed with proud parents, grandparents and family members and friends.

The ceremony started with the singing of the National Anthem and Buddha Gem Song at 2.00 p.m. Before address the audience Ven Wei Wu and everyone present observed one minute’s silence as a mark of respect to houour the passing of the late Datin Paduka Seri Endon Mahmood, the beloved wife of our Prime Minister.

Organised by the Working Committee of M.B.S.A. Maha Sanghikadana

INTRODUCTION

Official Opening Ceremony