Following the official establishment of the Kalyana Mitra Home in Tanjung Bunga, the Kalyana Mitra Home located near the University Sains Malaysia (USM), was officially opened on 19th of July with blessings from Ven. Wei Wu. After the blessing ceremony, Ven. Wei Wu converse closely with the house members of the Kalyana Mitra Home.

Bro. Yap Hock Heng, the co-coordinator of the Kalyana Mitra Homes, was very happy with the image of friendship projected on that day. He said, "This is a very warm beginning! With the friendship forged in the Kalyana Mitra Homes, many people will have the opportunity to learn Buddhism."

The Kalyana Mitra Home is one of many various beneficial projects of Than Hsiang Temple. During the previous years, staff members and devotees alike have diligently carried out welfare and educational activities. As one can see, the current education system provided by the Universities and Colleges in Malaysia, lean more towards the knowledge of technical development, thus ignoring the importance of a more humanities education. Therefore, Than Hsiang Temple hopes that through the project of Kalyana Mitra Homes, more university and college students will be able to benefit from the Dharma teachings.

With the pressure of earning a higher degree of education, many students will be living a life of day to day assignments, thinking only of his or her own self-preservation, with no care for the real world. We should not need to totally disregard the present living condition of university and college students, nor should we thinking of redoing their current lifestyles. However, we hope to provide the students with another style of living, infused with our loving care, and thus, from this clean and calm living environment, we hope to purify and widen the hearts of the students. We also hope that they will take this opportunity to benefit from the Dharma by being well prepared in their course work and develop a dignified personality to dutifully repay the society when they have graduated.

Under the guidance of Bro. Yap Hock Heng, the house members of these Kalyana Mitra Homes will diligently follow the conviction of Than Hsiang which are:

The young to learn,
The strong and healthy to serve,
The aged and sick to be cared for, and
The departed to find spiritual destination.

The Kalyana Mitra Homes hopes to strengthen the perception of the first and second conviction within the students, and create a loving family circle for them by giving them proper advise and care to help them sustain the difficulties of life. With the Triple Gem as their guide, we hope that the students will follow the path of Buddhism, and learn from each other as they hold onto their precepts. We hope that the students will live in harmony together, and threat one another like one of their own family, while maintaining the cleanliness of the house and establishing a happy relationship with their neighbours.