{"id":2342,"date":"2025-04-07T09:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2025-04-22T08:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:21:12","slug":"2342","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/07\/2342\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar New Year 2025 &#8211; Seeking Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>We are going to celebrate the Myanmar New Year with a Dhamma talk on Sunday, April 20, 2025, at the MTBS temple.\u00a0 We are seeking volunteers to prepare Mote-hin-gar\u00a0for the event on\u00a0<strong>Saturday, April 12, 2025, from 10 am to 2 pm<\/strong> .\u00a0 Please show up at the monastery\u00a0on\u00a0April 12, 2025, around 10 am if you are able to volunteer. \u00a0Lunch will be provided for volunteers on\u00a0that day.<\/p>\n<p>Ingyin and friends will generously donate (Mote-hin-gar) lunch to all attendees on April 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>You and your loved ones are cordially invited to the event.<\/p>\n<p>The event agenda is the following:<\/p>\n<p>Place:<br>\nManawmaya Theravada Buddhist Society (MTBS)<\/p>\n<p>13260 108th Ave Surrey BC<\/p>\n<p>(604) 951-9054<\/p>\n<p>Time:<br>\n10:00 a.m. \u2013\u00a0 Taking five precepts,<\/p>\n<p>10:05 a.m. \u2013\u00a0 Listening to Dhamma talk,<\/p>\n<p>11:15 a.m. \u2013\u00a0 Offering lunch to Venerable U Sanda<\/p>\n<p>11:20 a.m. \u2013\u00a0 Lunch (Mote-hin-gar) to well-wishers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPECIAL DONATION: All donations collected\u00a0at\u00a0this event will be re-donated to\u00a0rebuild\u00a0religious\u00a0buildings\u00a0affected by the recent devastating earthquake in Myanmar. \u00a0You can also submit donations via e-transfer, by sending them to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mtbs.surrey@gmail.com\">mtbs.surrey@gmail.com<\/a>. Please submit your full name for the donation receipt if you make an e-transfer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please see the attached Dhamma events calendar for 2025.\u00a0\u00a0You can visit the MTBS website\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/\">http:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org<\/a><\/u>\u00a0and Facebook \u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mtbscanada\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mtbscanada\/<\/a><\/u>\u00a0for upcoming Dhamma events.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to sponsor a Dhamma Talk event to get wholesome merit, please kindly let the Venerable U Sanda know at (604) 951-9054.<\/p>\n<p>You can also take some wholesome merit (Kuso) by laying the tables and chairs for all attendees and well-wishers before the event, taking them down and doing clean-up after the event.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are going to celebrate the Myanmar New Year with a Dhamma talk on Sunday, April 20, 2025, at the MTBS temple.\u00a0 We are seeking volunteers to prepare Mote-hin-gar\u00a0for the event on\u00a0Saturday, April 12, 2025, from 10 am to 2 pm .\u00a0 Please show up at the monastery\u00a0on\u00a0April 12, 2025, around 10 am if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsandevents"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5D3Cd-2342","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}