Once, I witnessed monks in Sitavana Vihara Penang, chanting pujas at the site of a new stupa. Many young Burmese working in Malaysia turned up in droves for the occasion and there was much fanfare. Food was in abundance as they cooked and then, many local people took the opportunity to do dana. In the Buddhist tradition, dana refers to generosity but here, it translates into offering food to monks and laypeople. Do you for once wonder if there are other ways of being generous? Dana, I rather think, offers a wider scope...
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