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Kathina Ceremony 2023

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Event Signup responses

NameNumber of people coming (including yourself)Breakfast Food ItemFor how many peopleLunch Food ItemFor how many people
Dilan and Roshanthi
4
String Hoppers, Fish Curry, Sambola, Potato Curry, Milk Rice, Seeni Sambola, Kola kada, Fruits and Cake
15
Sagara & Semadu
2
N/A
0
Kale මැල්ලුම්/Watalappan
50
Gayan
3
White Rice and Beetroot curry
30
Isuranga
1
Chickpeas (කඩල)
10
Dilan & Roshanthi
2
Butter Cake
50
Sujeewa/Sandamala
3
NA
0
Soya curry and okra
25
Gihan & Maleesha
3
Dhal Curry
30
Asanka Dharmabandu
3
Vegetable fried rice & mango curry
40
Akila & Kalpi
2
Green beans
40
Kanchana Gunasena
3
Cashew curry
25
Saliya & Shashie
2
Potato Curry
30
Pubudu & Udeni
1
Pol Sambol
40
Apsara Heellage
3
Polos curry
25
Dhanushka
1
Fruits and Yogurt
30
Wasana Sumanasekera
3
Coconut Roti
10
Mung Bean Curry & Polos Curry
40
Kinithi & Lakshan
1
Carrot sambol
30
Chanchala & Bandara
2
White and brown rice, Banana pepper, Mung Ata Mallum
50
Shaminda Hubert
1
No
0
Gotukola
30
U d Sumithra
2
Kadala and seeni sambal
25



Vesak Poya Day Program

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“Sukho Buddhanam uppado
sukha saddhammadesana
sukha sanghassa samaggi
samagganam tapo sukho”

Signup sheet for the event

(Please note that it will take few minutes for your entry to show up in the table)

"Difficult is it to be born as a human being; difficult is the existence of mortals; difficult is the hearing of the Sublime Truth; rare is the appearance of the Enlightened Ones (Buddhas)" - (Dhamma Pada)

SPECIAL "DANA SEELA BHAVANA" PROGRAM PRACTICING GEMEROSITY, MORALITY, AND MEDITATION

විශේෂ ආශීර්වාද, දාන,සීල, භාවනා, වැඩසටහන සහ බුද්ධ පූජාව

At the Kentucky temple: Date – Saturday, 06th May 2023 From 09:00 AM to 4:30 PM

(Observing precepts, offering to the Buddha, and monks, Dhamma sermon, meditation, pirith chanting, sharing blessings and merits)

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM ආජීව අශ්ටමක සීලය සමාදන් වීම
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM ධර්ම දේශනය සහ භාවනා වැඩසටහන
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM දහවල් බුද්ධ පූජාව සහ මහ සංඝයා උදෙසා දන් පිළිගැන්වීම (3 නමක්)
01:00 PM - 02:00 PM ධර්ම සාකච්ඡාව (Zoom) - දක්ෂිණ ලංකාවේ ප්‍රධාන සංඝ නායක ශ්‍රී බෝධිරාජ පදනමෙහි නිර්මාතෘ අති පූජ්‍ය ඕමල්පේ සෝභිත හිමි විසින්
02:00 PM - 03:00 PM දායක සභාව පිහිටුවීම
03:00 PM - 04:00 PM භක්ති ගීත, වෙසක් පහන් කූඩු සහ පහන් දැල්වීම
04:00 PM - 04:30 PM සවස ගිලන්පස වැළඳීම

You may bring some food and drinks to offer to the Lord Buddha, monks and sharing with others. You may sponsor for the Dana offerings such as, food, drinks, pirikara, and Puja items and monetary donations for the temple in this special occasion to accumulate more merits and blessings.

We welcome you all for this important event and wishing all the best to you all !

May you all be safe and free from all sufferings and be well happy healthy and peaceful !
May all beings be safe and free from all sufferings be well happy healthy and peaceful !
- Much compassionate Venerable Maha Sangha at the temple

NameNumber of people coming (including yourself)I will bring for breakfast (Please state the food items you will be bringing)I will bring for lunch (Please state the food items you will be bringing)



Kentucky Meditation Peace Center & Buddhists Vihara
4815 Manslick Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40216
502-224-2564 / 502-915-7777

reverendnanda@gmail.com
https://www.kmcbv.org  &   http://kmpc.co
https://www.facebook.com/louisvillemonastery

Medin Poya Day Program

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“Sukho Buddhanam uppado
sukha saddhammadesana
sukha sanghassa samaggi
samagganam tapo sukho”

"Difficult is it to be born as a human being; difficult is the existence of mortals; difficult is the hearing of the Sublime Truth; rare is the appearance of the Enlightened Ones (Buddhas)" - (Dhamma Pada)

SPECIAL "DANA SEELA BHAVANA" PROGRAM PRACTICING GEMEROSITY, MORALITY, AND MEDITATION

විශේෂ ආශීර්වාද, දාන,සීල, භාවනා, වැඩසටහන සහ බුද්ධ පූජාව

At the Tennessee temple: Date – Saturday, 18th March 2023 From 09:00 AM to 3:00 PM

(Observing precepts, offering to the Buddha, and monks, Dhamma sermon, meditation, pirith chanting, sharing blessings and merits)

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM ආජීව අශ්ටමක සීලය සමාදන් වීම
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM භාවනා වැඩසටහන
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM ධර්ම දේශනය
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM දහවල් බුද්ධ පූජාව සහ මහ සංඝයා උදෙසා දන් පිළිගැන්වීම (2 නමක්)
01:00 PM - 02:15 PM ධර්ම සාකච්ඡාව
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM සවස ගිලන්පස වැළඳීම
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM සැමට සෙත් පතා සිදු කරන විශේෂ ආශිර්වාදාත්මක පිරිත් දේශනාව

At the Kentucky temple: Date – Saturday, 25th March 2023 From 09:00 AM to 1:15 PM

(Observing precepts, offering to the Buddha, and monks, Dhamma sermon, meditation, pirith chanting, sharing blessings and merits)

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM ආජීව අශ්ටමක සීලය සමාදන් වීම
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM භාවනා වැඩසටහන
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM ධර්ම දේශනය සහ සාකච්ඡාව
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM දහවල් බුද්ධ පූජාව සහ මහ සංඝයා උදෙසා දන් පිළිගැන්වීම (2 නමක්)
12:30 PM - 01:15 PM සැමට සෙත් පතා සිදු කරන විශේෂ ආශිර්වාදාත්මක පිරිත් දේශනාව

You may bring some food and drinks to offer to the Lord Buddha, monks and sharing with others. You may sponsor for the Dana offerings such as, food, drinks, pirikara, and Puja items and monetary donations for the temple in this special occasion to accumulate more merits and blessings.

We welcome you all for this important event and wishing all the best to you all !

May you all be safe and free from all sufferings and be well happy healthy and peaceful !
May all beings be safe and free from all sufferings be well happy healthy and peaceful !
- Much compassionate Venerable Maha Sangha at the temple

 

Please contact the temple for more information

 

Kentucky Meditation Peace Center & Buddhists Vihara
4815 Manslick Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40216
502-224-2564 / 502-915-7777

reverendnanda@gmail.com
https://www.kmcbv.org  &   http://kmpc.co
https://www.facebook.com/louisvillemonastery

Tennessee Meditation Peace Center & Buddhists Vihara
Bodhiraja Buddhists Temples Meditation Center - Tennessee
863 Summerly Dr Nashville, TN 37209
502-224-2564

reverendnanda@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/TMPCNashville/

Navam Poya Day Program

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“Sukho Buddhanam uppado
sukha saddhammadesana
sukha sanghassa samaggi
samagganam tapo sukho”

"Difficult is it to be born as a human being; difficult is the existence of mortals; difficult is the hearing of the Sublime Truth; rare is the appearance of the Enlightened Ones (Buddhas)" - (Dhamma Pada)

SPECIAL "DANA SEELA BHAVANA" PROGRAM PRACTICING GEMEROSITY, MORALITY, AND MEDITATION

විශේෂ ආශීර්වාද, දාන,සීල, භාවනා, වැඩසටහන සහ බුද්ධ පූජාව

Saturday, 25th February 2023 From 09:00 AM to 1:15 PM

(Observing precepts, offering to the Buddha, and monks, Dhamma sermon, meditation, pirith chanting, sharing blessings and merits)

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM ආජීව අශ්ටමක සීලය සමාදන් වීම (Observing Eight Precepts)
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM භාවනා වැඩසටහන (Meditation Program)
10:45 AM - 11:30 PM ධර්ම දේශනය සහ සාකච්ඡාව (Dhamma Sermon)
11:30 PM - 12:30 PM දහවල් බුද්ධ පූජාව සහ මහ සංඝයා උදෙසා දන් පිළිගැන්වීම (2 නමක්)
12:30 PM - 01:15 PM සැමට සෙත් පතා සිදු කරන විශේෂ ආශිර්වාදාත්මක පිරිත් දේශනාව

You may bring some food and drinks to offer to the Lord Buddha, monks and sharing with others. You may sponsor for the Dana offerings such as, food, drinks, pirikara, and Puja items and monetary donations for the temple in this special occasion to accumulate more merits and blessings.

We welcome you all for this important event and wishing all the best to you all !

May you all be safe and free from all sufferings and be well happy healthy and peaceful !
May all beings be safe and free from all sufferings be well happy healthy and peaceful !
- Much compassionate Venerable Maha Sangha at the temple

 

Please contact the temple for more information

 

Kentucky Meditation Peace Center & Buddhists Vihara
4815 Manslick Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40216
502-224-2564 / 502-915-7777

reverendnanda@gmail.com
https://www.kmcbv.org  &   http://kmpc.co
https://www.facebook.com/louisvillemonastery

2023 Compassionate Projects

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Dear compassionate and generous friends,

Thank you very much for your kindness and helping with our compassionate projects in Sri Lanka, USA, and some other countries in the year 2022. You have shown your great generosity, kindness, support by donating and contributing to these projects and events to make them successful. We deeply appreciated your contributions with much gratitude, blessings, merits, and prayers for you, your family, and all.

We plan to continue our compassionate projects in this year 2023.
We are expecting your generous support, contributions and kind participation to make these projects successful for the benefit of many in the society.
(You may donate whatever amount according to your ability)

2023 Compassionate Projects

  • Financial aid for Monks, Nuns, lower-income families, children, and schools in Sri Lanka and in Asia.
    We offer scholarships and schools supplies to those in need. Your kindness and generosity would make a big change in someone's life. In the year 2022, we have offered many scholarships for young monks and children in need in Sri Lanka with the kind supports of many from locally and internationally.
  • Animal liberation program.
    Your funds would go to saving cows and other animals from being slaughtered. They would then be donated to lower income families and village farmers in Sri Lanka to care for them (This would not only help the animals, but would help the poor families they are donated to). Other animals would be released to safe environments and cared for by compassionate people. We have liberated, released and given life to live for many animals. This compassionate project was conducted in many places and was very successful in Sri Lanka with the supports from many compassionate people around the world like you.
  • In addition, we are planning to conduct some of important events and projects in Sri Lanka in order to help the families and children in need due to recent economic crises, hardships.
    1. Donating useful stationaries worth of US$20, SGD$30 to children in need in low income families.
    2. Donating useful medicine and medical supplies to rural hospitals and homes those not get enough medicine, facilities and resources to treat patients and help those who are hospitalized and all others who need special care.
    3. Distributing day to day groceries such as rice bags, lentils, milk, breads, sugar and cooking oils to families in rural areas.

You may contribute to any of these initiatives via monetary donations by sending a check to the temple directly or via online transfer. You may log into our temple website for online donations (https://www.kmcbv.org/donate/)

Thank you so much for your kindness, generosity, contributions, and support. We deeply appreciate it with much blessings and prayers for you, your family and all.

Kentucky Meditation Peace Center & Buddhists Vihara
4815 Manslick Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40216
502-224-2564 / 502-915-7777

reverendnanda@gmail.com
https://www.kmcbv.org  &   http://kmpc.co
https://www.facebook.com/louisvillemonastery

Bodhi Sarana Foundation
Aturugiriya
Colombo
Sri Lanka

Tennessee Meditation Peace Center & Buddhists Vihara
Bodhiraja Buddhists Temples Meditation Center - Tennessee
863 Summerly Dr Nashville, TN 37209
502-224-2564

reverendnanda@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/TMPCNashville/

Duruth Poya Day Program

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“Sukho Buddhanam uppado
sukha saddhammadesana
sukha sanghassa samaggi
samagganam tapo sukho”

"Difficult is it to be born as a human being; difficult is the existence of mortals; difficult is the hearing of the Sublime Truth; rare is the appearance of the Enlightened Ones (Buddhas)" - (Dhamma Pada)

SPECIAL "DANA SEELA BHAVANA" PROGRAM PRACTICING GEMEROSITY, MORALITY, AND MEDITATION

විශේෂ ආශීර්වාද, දාන,සීල, භාවනා, වැඩසටහන සහ බුද්ධ පූජාව

At the Kentucky temple: Date – Saturday, 28th January 2023 From 09:00 AM to 3:00 PM
At the Tennessee temple: Date – Sunday, 29th January 2023 From 09:00 AM to 3:00 PM

(Observing precepts, offering to the Buddha, and monks, Dhamma sermon, meditation, pirith chanting, sharing blessings and merits)

09:00 AM - 09:30 AM ආජීව අශ්ටමක සීලය සමාදන් වීම
09:30 AM - 10:30 AM බුද්ධානුස්සති භාවනාව සහ සත් බුදු වන්දනාව
11:00 AM - 01:00 PM දහවල් බුද්ධ පූජාව සහ මහ සංඝයා උදෙසා දන් පිළිගැන්වීම (3 නමක්)
01:00 PM - 02:15 PM ධර්ම දේශනය සහ සාකච්ඡාව
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM සවස ගිලන්පස වැළඳීම
02:30 PM - 03:00 PM සැමට සෙත් පතා සිදු කරන විශේෂ ආශිර්වාදාත්මක පිරිත් දේශනාව

You may bring some food and drinks to offer to the Lord Buddha, monks and sharing with others. You may sponsor for the Dana offerings such as, food, drinks, pirikara, and Puja items and monetary donations for the temple in this special occasion to accumulate more merits and blessings.

We welcome you all for this important event and wishing all the best to you all !

May you all be safe and free from all sufferings and be well happy healthy and peaceful !
May all beings be safe and free from all sufferings be well happy healthy and peaceful !
- Much compassionate Venerable Maha Sangha at the temple

 

Please contact the temple for more information

 

Kentucky Meditation Peace Center & Buddhists Vihara
4815 Manslick Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40216
502-224-2564 / 502-915-7777

reverendnanda@gmail.com
https://www.kmcbv.org  &   http://kmpc.co
https://www.facebook.com/louisvillemonastery

Tennessee Meditation Peace Center & Buddhists Vihara
Bodhiraja Buddhists Temples Meditation Center - Tennessee
863 Summerly Dr Nashville, TN 37209
502-224-2564

reverendnanda@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/TMPCNashville/

“Vas Aradhana” – “Vasso” Invitation 2022

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“Ayam Vassana Kalo” 
“This would be the time for Monks & Nuns to observe Rainy Retreat”

Signup sheet for the event

(Please note that it will take few minutes for your entry to show up in the table)

 

Special invitation will be done by the members of the Sri Lankan Students Association of University of Kentucky(SLSA in UK), USA.  and all other members of the Kentucky Meditation Peace Center & Buddhist Vihara.

 

Date 10th July 2022
Time 10 A.M. - 02 P.M.

Observing precepts, offering to the Buddha, and monks, inviting monks for rainy retreat, Dhamma sermon, chanting, sharing blessings and merits
Place Kentucky Meditation Compassionate Peace Center & Buddhist Vihara
You may sponsor for the event invoking blessings for you, your family, friends, and transfer merits for your dear departed loving ones wishing peace and happiness.

Name
I will bring (Food for Dawal Dana/Lunch for monks) - Indicate what food item(s) you'll be bringing
7/9/2022 12:17:55Gihan Mendis2Mango Curry
7/9/2022 21:42:39Gayan 1Kale Malluma
7/10/2022 9:52:13Dilan3chickpeas
10/22/2022 22:00:45Kinithi Wickramaratne 1Chickpea curry

“STUPA” Pagoda for Kentucky Meditation Peace Center & Buddhist Vihara!

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Dear devotees, friends, and Sangha,

We kindly invite you all to take part in this meritorious deed to build a "STUPA" Pagoda for our temple (Kentucky Meditation Peace Center & Buddhist Vihara) at Louisville, Kentucky, USA !

We have been planning to situate a STUPA at our temple for a long time to the benefit the growing spiritual community in Kentucky, Tennessee and surrounding states in the USA. We are in need of a STUPA as well as other important sacred religious, and spiritual facilities in the temple (buddha shrine, meditation hall, home for Bodhi Tree and 28 Buddha, dining hall and living quarters for monks and nuns, area for lay meditation practitioners). Our Buddhist community is growing, however we still didn't collect enough funds, generous compassionate supports, sponsorships to start or complete some of these important projects.

We kindly request your generosity and supports for this meritorious deed to propagating the teaching of the Buddha. It would bring great merits and blessings for you, your family and all.

“Kathinanca Parikkaran
Vasadanancha Uttaman
Buddappamukhassa
Danan Dhammassa lekhanan
Khetta danancha sanghassa
Pathima karanampicha
Karanan wacca kutiya
Attha punnani wuccare”

  • Offering “Kathina Robe for Sangha(Monks & Nuns)”,
  • Offering Eightfold requisites for Sangha,
  • Offering living huts (living quarters) for Sangha,
  • Offering Dana(Dana - four types of valuables - foods, clothes, medicine and housing) and other necessities for three generations of monks and nuns including Buddha,
  • Shearing the Dhamma, writing and printing publications of Dhamma benefits for all,
  • Offering lands (Paddies) for the benefits of Sangha,
  • Building Buddha statues, Pagodas, Shrines, Housing (protection) for Bodhi tree and other Buddhists monuments and important things for veneration and benefits for many
  • Building toilets, lavatories for the benefits of Sangha.

These are the greatest meritorious deeds that one should perform in their life time to accrue lots of merits, blessings to make their life happy here and here after. Offering, donating, and building a “STUPA” Pagoda for temple, Maha Sangha is a meritorious deed, the merits that accrued from performing this kind of offerings, and taking part, participating, sponsoring, contributing for that cannot be destroy by anything, any forces and that merits would bless with all the success happiness, peace, and long healthy life for all here and here after and at the end to achieve the bliss of Nibbana(Enlightenment) free from all kinds of Samsaric Sufferings.

It is also believed that the merit, or the positive karma, gained by the offerings conducting this kind of meritorious deeds could reduce the negative effects of other minor bad karma one may have committed. One would be blessed with long life, happiness, good health, good complexion, physical strength, peace and wisdom in this life and many more lives to come until one attains Nirvana.

“Kathinanca Parikkaran
Vasadanancha Uttaman
Buddappamukhassa
Danan Dhammassa lekhanan
Khetta danancha sanghassa
Pathima karanampicha
Karanan wacca kutiya
Attha punnani wuccare”

供养卡帝纳袈裟给僧团( 比丘和比丘尼)

供养住宿给僧人

建设公厕利益僧团。

这些功德也将加持大家人生顺心，快乐，安宁，和长寿一直到我们涅槃。

供养农田利益僧团。建佛像，佛塔，大殿，和建保护菩提树及收藏其它值得我们敬仰的重要物品和佛教文物的建筑屋。

以上都是最盛大的功德，我们每个人都该在我们这一生实行这些布施，来为我们自己累积诸多的福报和功德，使我们今世和未来世都快乐。供养卡帝纳袈裟是最盛大的功德 ，不管是参加或赞助和供养，其功德是不可思议的，不可以被任何东西毁灭。

以上都是最盛大的功德，我们每个人都该在我们这一生实行这些布施，来为我们自己累积诸多的福报和功德，使我们今世和未来世都快乐。供养卡帝纳袈裟是最盛大的功德 ，不管是参加或赞助和供养，其功德是不可思议的。

Your compassion, generosity and supports would make this great meritorious deed a success for the benefit of many.

https://www.kmcbv.org/donate

You may send donations via checks by addressing them to "Kentucky Meditation Peace Center" and sending them to the address below.

Triple Gems bless be with you all !

May you all be safe and free from all sufferings and be well happy healthy and peaceful !

May all beings be safe and free from all sufferings be well happy healthy and peaceful !

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4815 Manslick Road, Louisville, Kentucky 40216, USA 🇺🇸
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“Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given”

“Material success or wealth is neutral in itself, neither good or evil. It become evil only when one is attached to it or to amassing it for selfish reasons. It is good when one is not attached to it, and readily use it selflessly to benefit others in need. Wealth should lead to generosity, or it will become a spiritual obstacle. If there is propensity for great generosity for great charity, the richer the merrier”

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world”

“Here he/she is happy, hereafter he/she is happy; one who performs meritorious deeds is happy in both existences. Happily he/she exclaims: I have done meritorious deeds.” He/she is happier still when he/she is reborn in a higher world“

Dear Friends/Sanghas,

At this point the monthly utilities, insurance, telephone, internet, food, medicine, transportation, temple maintenance totals almost cost around to $1800 to $2000 per month.

If possible, please kindly consider a contribution of any amount that is comfortable for your budget to lesser the load. There is always a tax deduction for donations given to the Temple since we are 501-C organization.

We seek to live frugally and spiritually to serve a higher purpose in serving the community for ultimate peace of mind and make a better world to live in.

Thank you for your kindness and generosity to the Temple that seeks to provide peace, loving kindness, mindfulness meditation, counselling for all people in Louisville KY and surrounding states.

If you like to donate and helping for the temple Sangha monks & Nuns at Kentucky Meditation Peace Center & Buddhists Vihara please visit – https://www.kmcbv.org/donate/

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Much compassion to all of you,
Chief Priest of the Kentucky Meditation Compassionate Peace Center & Buddhist Vihara.
Venerable Embilipitiye Nanda Thero (Bhante Nanda)
Kentucky Meditation Compassionate Peace Center
4815 Manslick Road, Louisville, KY. 40216
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