Ven. Saccananda needs your help to finish the job!

Update: Read this!

Bhante reports the 2 monk rooms that we initially launched this fundraiser for are nearly complete. We have a video received from the site below. To complete this entire project we need $20,000 (money goes a long way in Bengladesh!) We possibly have a pledge for another $5000 which leaves just $15,000 for the entire meditation center project. Please do help us if you can. As the Buddha said that once you give a gift you should just continue give again and again.

Note: I have upped the total of the fundraiser to $27,000 which will leave us a net of $20,000 to go. David Johnson DSMC

Ven. Dr. Saccānanda Mahāthera is the founder and abbot of Brahma Vihāra Meditation Center in Westbury, Long Island, New York. [Venerable Saccananda's Bio] He is building a large meditation center in his home country near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, which will handle many monks and teach suttas and meditation using those suttas as his guide.

He has saved his donations for the last 12 years and has spent it all on the First floor and foundation for the center -see pictures below.

Now all the money is spent and he needs more funds for concrete, bricks and other materials.

He wants to build at least 2 rooms for the resident monks and novices to live in. Then, as he gets funds he will gradually build out the first floor and after that add more floors. This is his lifelong dream.

We need at least $2000 for each room to complete them; $4000 total. But we can do more for this noble Dhamma project which will be existing for years to train more monks.

So please help us with any funds you can spare and leave your own legacy of a Buddhist Temple for others to attain Nibbana!

Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu

Here is what the temple will look like.

Here is the layout of the land with building and parking.

Here is the construction underway.

Bhante Saccananda does the Water Blessing for the new temple.

Ven. Dr. Saccānanda Mahāthera is the founder and abbot of Brahma Vihāra Meditation Center in Westbury, Long Island, New York. Dr. Saccānanda established this Center on October 12, 2017. His aim is to teach others so that all human beings can liberate from the wheel of cycle. He teaches Tranquil - Insight (Samatha-Vipassanā) Meditation which uses the "Mindfulness of Lovingkindness" practice (otherwise known as the practice of the Brahma Vihāra) for the journey to Nibbāna.

More Here: Venerable's Story

Address any questions to David Johnson at Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center or through this site.