The International Buddhist College will be organizing its 3rd convocation seminar on the 1st of August 2009 in conjunction with its 2nd convocation to be held on the following day at IBC in Southern Thailand. The seminar venue is at Than Hsiang Temple, Penang.

Twenty four Buddhist organizations of the Northern region jointly organize the annual Chinese New Year celebration on Sunday Feb 1st at 2pm at Phor Tay High School. The celebration will begin with the traditional lion dance and followed by a dharma discourse and chanting cum blessing session by the abbot of Than Hsiang temple, Ven Wei Wu.

With the spring festival just round the corner, Than Hsiang Temple will once again be launching our annual Spring cleaning to usher in the Chinese New Year.

Than Hsiang Kindergarten, by incorporating a holistic and motivational approach in its child education conception, promotes a balanced and wholesome physical, intellectual, spiritual, social and emotional development of early childhood in a safe and caring environment.

In collaboration with the celebration of Ninth Lunar vegetarian festival from 29/9 till 7/10, Than Hsiang temple, Wan Chin Yuen and Mitra Welfare Center will be organizing vegetarian charity sales , in their bid to encourage more people to be vegetarians while supporting welfare and education enterprises.

The seventh lunar month is the month when Chinese observe the tradition of ancestor worship or Ulambana in remembrance of their departed. This is in line with paying respect and inculcating the much-revered virtue of filial piety to one’s ancestors.