{"id":409,"date":"2017-03-27T14:39:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T21:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/?p=409"},"modified":"2017-03-27T21:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T04:27:15","slug":"myanmar-burmese-new-year-celebration-on-apr-9-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/2017\/03\/27\/myanmar-burmese-new-year-celebration-on-apr-9-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar (Burmese) new year celebration on Apr 9, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><span lang=\"EN-US\">We are going to hold a Dhamma talk to celebrate the New Year on April 9, 2017, Sunday. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Dr. Tun Zan Maung, Dr. Khin Khin Oo and family will donate lunch to all event attendees in the fond memories of Sayadaw U Sanda\u2019s benefactor venerable Sayadaw U Pan-ti-ta Bi-won-tha who was the principal resident Sayadaw of Pan-ti-ta Ra-ma (Golden Hill) Sasana Yeik-tha as well as with the fond loving gratitude to their parents, Mr. Reggie Tun Maung &amp; Mrs. Mitzi Tun Maung (deceased) and U Maung Maung Khin &amp; Dr. Daw Nan Oo (deceased).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The event agenda is as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Place: Manawmaya Theravada Buddhist Society (MTBS)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">13260 108th Ave Surrey BC<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">(604) 951-9054 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Time:\u00a0 11:00 a.m. \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Offering lunch to member(s) of the Sangha;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 11:05 a.m. \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Offering lunch to all attendees;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12:30 p.m. \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Taking five precepts;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a012:35 p.m. \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Listening to the Sangha\u2019s chanting prayers of Suttas for our\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Protection;\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12:45 p.m. \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Listening to resident Sayadaw\u2019s dhamma talk<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1:45 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Q &amp; A session;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2:00 p.m.\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 Announcement (if any).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Foods for both body and mind are free-of-charge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">There are many opportunities for you to get wholesome merit (Kuso): <\/span><\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\" type=\"1\">\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">by attending the event and listening to the Dhamma talk;\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">by bringing a small dish for the member(s) of the Sangha\u2019s lunch; <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">by helping cooking volunteers one day before and\/or <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-US\">by laying the tables and chairs for all attendees and well-wishers one day before the event, taking them down and doing clean-up after the event. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">There will be more parking spots available inside <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">the next door compound on the 108<sup>th<\/sup> Ave.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are going to hold a Dhamma talk to celebrate the New Year on April 9, 2017, Sunday.<\/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":false,"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-409","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\/p5D3Cd-6B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","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=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtbscanada.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}