Bhante Spends Time Teaching Novice monks
Following Buddha’s missionary injunction, Bhante Buddharakkhita spends most of his time teaching worldwide. However, during COVID-19 lockdown, Bhante is now spending more time teaching the two novice monks in Uganda. When COVID-19 embarked on its world tour, Bhante decided to return back to Uganda from USA On march 17. By this time, he was co-teaching […]
Uganda Buddhist Centre Receives Donation from Insight World Aid, USA
The Uganda Buddhist Centre (UBC) received a donation of US $2,200 from Insight World Aid (IWA), a US based non-profit organisation. This was to support the Centre during Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) country lockdown and curfew. The donation was used to purchase a motorbike, refrigerator and food items for our community. The motorbike is used to […]
UBC Constructs a Computer Laboratory, Dining Room and Garage
The new building is comprising a dining room, a computer laboratory and a garage. Lately, rains have always been interrupting monks during their meals, and other guests that we have always had at the Temple. Somewhere to have meals has been always challenging. Those who have been at the temple, you can attest this fact. […]
Peace School Constructs Its permanent Toilets
When we started, we repaired a pit latrine of the neighboring lady. Since then, we have been using that pit latrine. We experienced many inconveniences since the neighbor had tenants who were very slow and reluctant of cleaning the latrines after use. However, due to the limited resources we had then, we had to be […]
Local People Practice Alms-Giving
The almsgiving or Pindapata (in Pali language) ceremony is a very deep and meaningful practice for Buddhists. This ceremony has been practiced for the last 26 centuries. Pindapata is a sacred practice for both laities and monastics who depend on these offerings for their sustenance. Monks collect alms from devout Buddhist followers along the streets […]
Construction of Monks’ Accommodation
Preparations are underway to construct a five-storey building to house 60 resident monks at the Uganda Buddhist Centre. The structure is 50m long and 15m wide. Each floor of the building will carry 12 rooms with each self-contained so that monks don’t queue for a shower or toilet in the current shared bathrooms—they will now […]