Metta Nanda Vihara Dhamma Yeiktha is a well known Buddhist meditation and learning center in Yangon. It is led and organized by Sayadaw Dhamma who is a great teacher of Mahasi Vipassana Meditation lineage and also the academy adviser of International Theravada Buddhist University. The center provides free lodging, free food and free education for its country fellows who are poor and interested in Buddhism. Student monks, senior or junior, are to practice left-home life as like going out with alms bowls for "Pindapata" (food begging) in the morning. They are allowed to live as lay life at 18 years old after completing the basic school education, if they choose not to become monks. The center received great support and generous contributions from Malaysian Buddhists.
Hundreds of monks and sami from the center ready to go out for alms early in the morning.
"Pindapata" during Katina Ceremony. (Pindapata means food offering to Sangha from public)
Sayadaw Dhamma Piya delivered a speech in Katina Ceremony, emphasizing that robes offering in Katina is entirely different from normal days' offering . It is a great merit as monks who receive the offerings are those good in scriptures and proper in practices, otherwise they are not eligible to accept such offer in Katina.
Monks were chanting and ready to start the ceremony.
The sincere devotees, men and women, in their former dress to attend the ceremony.
Participants orderly lined up, knelled down and made offerings of robes and other requisites to monks seated in front.
The silver teapot was filled with water which was to be poured slowly into the cups representing the transfer of merits to all beings at the end of the ceremony. The food was set on a low round table in Burmese's Tradition, and make offering together with a monk before eating.
The Ordination Hall of Metta Nanda vihara Dhamma Yeiktha. The function of Ordination Hall is to hold all Buddhist official ceremonies and activities. It is normally called as Sima Hall
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