Theravada Buddhist Council of Malaysia
Asalha Puja ("Dhamma Day")
Asalha Puja commemorates the Buddha's first teaching: 'the Turning of the Wheel of Dhamma' (Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta) to the five ascetics at the Deer Park (Sarnath) near Benares, India, on the full moon day of the 8th lunar month according to the old Indian calendar.
Finding True Refuge
A Dhamma Sharing
by Venerable Pannavati Bhikkhunion
' Finding True Refuge '(a short video).
Venerable Pannavati Bhikkhuni is the Co-Abbot of Embracing Simplicity Buddhist Hermitage in North Carolina. She discusses how meditation was a paradigm shift that helped her master her emotions. Her first taste of meditation gave her doubts about the practice, but her persistence was rewarded by a profound change in her view of her life.
Why Meditate ~ 4 Kinds of Happiness
Ayya Khema was born in Berlin in 1923 to Jewish parents. In 1938, she escaped from Germany with two hundred other children and was taken to Glasgow, Scotland. Her parents went to China and, two years later Ayya Khema joined them in Shanghai. With the outbreak of the war, however, the family was put into a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and it was here her father died. She later married, had a son and a daughter, and now has four grandchildren.