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What is Pindacāra?

Pindacāra, the practice of collecting alms-food, is observed by Theravada Buddhist monks who have gone forth from ‘home-life’ to ‘homelessness’. A Buddhist monk is known in Pāli Language as a ‘bhikkhu’ – meaning ‘one who lives on alms’.

In Buddhist countries such as Thailand and Myanmar, it is a daily ritual for monks to go onPindacāra, where they walk through a village from one household to another, allowing devotees to make food offerings.

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Asalha Puja or Dhamma Day | 13-14 July 2022

During Asalha Puja or Dhamma Day, Buddhists celebrate the Buddha's turning the wheel of the Dhamma. The Dhamma wheel is often portrayed with eight spokes which symbolizes the Noble Eightfold Path.

Editor SCS TBCM 25/06/2022 Editor SCS TBCM 25/06/2022

Parenting Without Going Crazy

I believe a lot of parents get into parenting problems because they don’t really think for themselves about what works and what doesn’t. With little or no awareness, they just do what their parents did, or the complete opposite of that, because they hated it. My mother naturally never had that issue as a parent. Her condition forced her to think for herself. In other words, she had to rely on her own wisdom.

Editor SCS TBCM 31/03/2022 Editor SCS TBCM 31/03/2022

Hungry Shades Outside the Walls

Editor SCS TBCM 03/01/2022 Editor SCS TBCM 03/01/2022

BHANTE B. SRI SARANANKARA NAYAKA MAHA THERO

BHANTE B. SRI SARANANKARA selfless devotion to the development of the Buddha Sasana and his immense contribution to the international community, he was honoured by the Supreme Council of the Maha Sangha of Malwattha Chapter, Kandy, Sri Lanka by conferring the title “Sangha Keerthi Sri ”Upon him in 2017. Also, he was appointed as the Chief High Priest (Judiciary) of Malaysia in year 2007.

Editor SCS TBCM 30/10/2021 Editor SCS TBCM 30/10/2021

Kathina ceremony (Robes offering)

“Kathina” in Pali refers to the wooden frame which monks in ancient India used to sew their clothes on. The clothes thus prepared came to be known as Kathina clothes. On the Kathina frame the cloth could be stretched for cutting or sewing. Such a device was an aid to unskilled monks who made their robes from cast-off scraps of cloth which they cut with a knife.