Myanmar Trip - Day 3

Our first visit on the third day was to Zamburatana Buddhist Cultural Course center. We were greeted by eager youths from the center who were aware that we were coming.

For the pass few years FFM (Firefly Mission) has been a strong supporter of the venerable and the center. Support in the form of monetary donation and computers were well utilized by the center. One of the senior Firefly member shared with me that when FFM send the first computer over to the center, it was so over utilized that the machine broke down. The venerable then requested to FFM to send over more computers. FFM gladly reciprocated by sending computers donated to them from various organisations in Singapore to the center.

The students at the center presented to each of us a Firefly Mission T-Shirt they have printed and one of the student even put together a video clip to thank FFM for their support to the center. The youths chatted with us while the younger ones draw pictures and later presented them to us.




Our next stop was to Naga Cave Monastery. The Monastery was set up with the objective of educating the monks in both Buddhism and modern academic studies. The monastery is currently home to about 1200 monks and nuns and we were fortunate enough to offer food to them on the third day of our stay in Myanmar.









Left, Bro Chong Jin offering food to the nuns








Left, young novices going to wash their bowls after their meals.








Left, another young novice after taking his meal









We then took a 5 hours coach ride to Bilin where we stayed at Mountain View Hotel for the next three days.