International Bhikkhuni Day, 2014 (Part 1)

Honouring Eminent Asian Buddhist Women in the Modern Era

In conjunction with International Bhikkhuni Day, 2014, Gotama Vihara Society Malaysia has decided to honour outstanding Asian Buddhist women, both monastic and lay, who had made an impact to Buddhism in the modern times. Many of them have not received the due recognition nor had their stories written by scholars. For a start, we are focusing on Asian women as they have a long way to go to achieve recognition and support.

Below are summaries of these extraordinary women. Most of the information are obtained from a combination of either one of these sources - personal interviews, the 11^th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women publication: Eminent Buddhist Women, Vietnam, 2010, personal blogs and world-wide web pages.

Be the change

Vipassana [mindfulness] meditation class @SABS Part 10

Lesson 10, Oct 4, 2013

The following were yogis' queries and experiences that Bro KC helped address :

1) Bright light appeared during sitting meditation [eyes were closed].

Note and label seeing, seeing, seeing without going into the content of the visual object. Then redirect your attention to the primary object of the rising and falling movements of the abdomen. The purpose of applying this mindfulness on the sensing technique similar to other sensing like hearing, hearing, hearing and thinking, thinking, thinking is to avoid likes and dislikes to arise in relation to the sense object sensed.
   

Likes tend to give rise to desire and dislikes tend to give rise to aversion. Both desire and aversion are hindrances in meditation.

Help others not only in prayers

Tibetan Buddhism in China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A_sjV0AyAg#t=33

Published on Aug 23, 2014

..at least don't hurt them.

Something To Lighten up your Day Part 6

http://playingforchange.com/episodes/what-a-wonderful-world/

Playing For Change is proud to present a new video of the song "What a Wonderful World" featuring Grandpa Elliot with children's choirs across the globe. In these hard times children and music bring us hope for a better future. Today we celebrate life, and we change the world one heart and one song at a time!!