The Society was founded on 3rd November 2006 by the grace and kindness of Very Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche. He blessed the Society and granted us the name
Namo Buddha Buddhist Society.
Namo Buddha is a holy place where V.V. Thrangu Rinpoche resides in Nepal; it means prostrate the enlightened one. This being the mission of doctrine from our V.V. Thrangu Rinpoche, is what Buddhist should performance from the depth of one’s minds.
In general, Malaysia is a peaceful multicultural country; most citizens are emigrated from countries around. They bring in Malaysia with all kinds of tradition, religious and life-styles. They wish to share their experience and willing to learn others knowledge. They join hands helping Malaysia to develop a country of harmony, a community of joy and a better environment to live. The establishment of Namo Buddha Buddhist Society will answer the purpose of all the above.
Ven. Lama Ngwang was appointed as our resident master, and the Society came into existence with the support of Mdm. Loo, our chairperson, who sponsored almost everything the Society needed. As a lay Buddhist, she had finished practicing all the preliminaries Mahamudra, her daily practices are Medicine Buddha, Avalokiteshvara and Green Tara. She is a nice and easy going type of person and gets along well with all the members, as the members back her up with contribute to the Society regularly. All members are delighted to share the fortune of having a Buddhist Society to run the Dharma practice and activities.
Here is a schedule listed to look after your interest. All are welcome to participate.
- Weekly Practice:
Tuesday: Green Tara Practice
Friday: Medicine Buddha Puja and Four-armed Avalokiteshvara Puja
Sunday: Four Foundation and elementary Tibetan Class - Monthly Practice: according to the lunar calendar
1st day: Mahakala and Amitabha Buddha Practice
10th day: Milarepa Puja
15th day: Mahakala and Amitabha Buddha Practice - Green Tara Retreat once every month.
- Free the livestock once every month.
III. Long life prayer will be chanted,
Every New Year day, Lunar New Year day and Tibetan New Year day;
Wesak Festival, H.H. Karmapa and V.V. Thrangu Rinpoche’s Birthday.
(Come and share a piece of cake to celebrate these special days of rejoice.)
IV. It is our honor to have V.V. Thrangu Rinpoche come and visit us possibly twice a year with
teachings and empowerments. He shows us always the virtue of great compassion towards
all sentient beings, and manifests us the way to develop Bodhicitta as well as to guide and
help us to purify our minds.
The Future project of our society is to build a Shrine Hall. Building a Shrine Hall for practice is by means for living beings to plant blessings, an opportunity to worship Buddha, study Buddhism and respect Shanga as well as to cultivate precepts. Those who take part in building the Shrine Hall share the merits - the most important rewards of another wonderful pace towards Buddhahood.
After this, Namo Buddha Buddhist Society will consider to develop a school and a clinic or a hospital as a “phase II and III” project. Ven. Lama Ngawang emphasized that phase II and III are the response of the lay people, which will bring warmth, kindness and compassion to the city and add an array of light and a prospect of hope to the community. This shows the bright side of human nature is indeed the greatest accomplishment of the teaching of Buddha.
For more information of Namo Buddha Buddhist Society and or the time for the practices, please feel free to contact Ven. Lama Ngawang at the phone no. 60-84-310418. It is most appreciated.
Poems composed by Ven. Master Lama Ngawang
Welcome to Sibu center which is as vast as the sky
Welcome to Sibu center which is rich as the paddy field
Welcome to Sibu center which is prosperous as the running water
Welcome to Sibu center where sky vast benefactors resides for all.
By the unseducable preceptor precious dharma,
the Buddha’s precious thought and the truth.
The vastness of the circumference of the world
In particular Malaysia be peaceful and wealthy.
The openness field in the dharmic world of Malaysia
As long as the actions of the Buddha is there
There should not be ammunitions, diseases and famine
But wish to remain the truthful pure land forever.
Adorning with the virtuous armours
Like the good fortune newly opened.
Master and students agree with dharmic activities
To wish the Malaysia’s Sibu center to live long.
A Brief Biography of Lama Ngawang (the resident master of the centre)
Lama Ngawang was born in 1966, at Dzongkha, a small village in the northern Tibet, near the birthplace of the Great Yogi Milarepa. His parents Chimé and Sangchok have extreme faith in Buddha, Dharma and Shanga, so, they sent him to a monastery and become a monk at his age of 7. That was the time of Civil Revolution in China, Lama Ngawang found that it was very difficult to practice Dharma and rituals, to attain his aim of Boddhi input, he moved to Nepal. At his age of 15, he entered Thrangu Monastery, Namo Buddha and received his Dharma Teaching as well as the practice training.
There, he learned the liturgies and rituals along with other aspects of performing pujas and practicing. He studied Sutras, Tantras, and traditional sciences with Khenpo Ngedon, with his efforts; he made it a successful completion. He received the Great Empowerment of Kalachakra, the Bodhisattva vow, and teachings on Entering the Action of a Bodhisattva (the Bodhicaryavatara) from His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Likewise, from the Lord of Refuge Kalu Rinpoche, he received the empowerment and transmission of the Treasury of the Discoveries of the Awareness-Holders (Rigdzin Terdzö) along with 40 Tulkus, Lamas and a sangha of 500 monks. He received empowerments, transmissions, and instructions from several important Lamas of the Sakya, Geluk, and Nyingmapa schools.
After that, Lama Ngawang completed the traditional three-year, three-month, three-day retreat of the Karma Kamtsang (Kagyu) lineage at Namo Buddha, Nepal, one of the most holy places where once our Teacher the Lord Buddha in previous lives offered his body to a starving tigress, in case to save the cubs. During the retreat he learned the practices of Mahamudra, instructions, śamatha and vipaśyanā from Retreat Master Sonam Rinchen. He studied Tantra and practiced the common and uncommon preliminaries thoroughly. He received the teaching of Six Yogas of Naropa and the empowerments, transmissions and instructions from his root guru, the Precious Lord of Refuge Thrangu Rinpoche.
When the retreat ended, he remained in the monastery as a Vajra Master, disciplinarian, a counselor to the monastic Sangha. In order to propagate the genuine Buddhist Dharma to various countries, in accordance with the wish of the Lord of Refuge Thrangu Rinpoche, he starts his propaganda in Dharma by giving teaching to the student oversea. He gives instructions to Dharma groups and students on kindness and compassion, the refuge vow, empowerments and transmissions. He continues to give spiritual training, discourses how to realize in everyday life the quintessence of Vajrayana Buddhism.
Lama Ngawang wishes to accumulate all his merits and dedicate them to salvage all sentient beings from misery by giving them the Joy of Dharma. He performs life-stocks release ceremonies, visits elderly home with gifts and fruits to those seniors. He blesses those suffering difficulties and having obstacles, releases them from sorrow and helps them overcome their pains by rituals services. He inspires people around him with his great compassion and encourages them to practice Bodhicitta, the only way to be awakened.
Lama Ngawang is now the Resident Lama of Namo Buddha Buddhist Society in Malaysia, where he brings love and joy to the community.