📅 When: Every Saturday
📍 Where: 35 Veherakanda Road, Beddagana, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
🛑 Special note: Additional youth round up might take place on other Sundays depending on special requirements and advance notice.
🧑🤝🧑 For: Youth age 13 and older
⏱️ Time: 3:00 – 5:00 pm
🎙️ Medium: English
💵 Cost: Free
📒 Registration
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Come with friends or bring your group!
If you have a group from your company, association, sports club, or any group at all, you can reserve a whole day just for your group. Contact us 94715962399 to reserve a whole day for your group.
What’s Happening
- Listen to a sermon
- Practice meditation
- Prepare Dana for the Maha Sangha
- Help with chores in the monastery
- Meet new friends
- Serve the larger community
Community Service
In this very difficult time that our country is facing, one of our core values is to buildup a storehouse of merit by practising generosity and community service with a joyful heart in the fellowship of other disciples of the Supreme Buddha. Projects are organized to provide the most value.
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📝 Program Schedule [3:00 – 5:30 PM]
This schedule is only applicable for short programs.
| Time | Task/Activity |
| 2:45 PM | Arranging the Hall and Sound system |
| 3:00 PM | Worshipping the Buddha Statue |
| 3:05 AM | Five precepts, Theruwan Vandhana |
| 3:15 AM | Short Dhamma Sermon |
| 3:30 AM | Assigning devotees for volunteer work |
| – Cleaning Windows and Doors – Arranging and cleaning chairs, pantry, kitchen, floor mats, dana hall (Arrange Napkins and cleaning item (like Glass cleaning liquids) – Cleaning Washrooms – Male devotees are allowed to clean the monks residing areas – Cleaning the book store | |
| 4:30 PM | Prepare Flowers and Gilanpasa Puja |
| 5:00 PM | Invite Monks – Gilanpasa Puja. Chanting while monks are arriving |
| 5:15 AM | Offering Gilanpasa Puja |
| 5:30 PM | End of the Program |
📝 Program Schedule [7:00 AM to 5:00 PM]
This schedule is only applicable for full day programs.
| Time | Task/Activity |
| 7:00 AM | Arranging the Hall and Sound system |
| Take photographs and videos and interviews | |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome (Breakfast provided [Fish Bun, Milk Packet]) |
| 8:00 AM | Take photographs and videos and interviews |
| 8:00 AM | Worshipping the Buddha Statue |
| 8:10 AM | Five precepts, Theruwan Vandhana, Pirith and Short Meditation |
| 8:30 AM | Dhamma Sermon and directing some devotees for Sangha dana |
| – Cooking (Sangha Dana) – Cutting Vegitables, Washing pots and basins etc. | |
| 9:00 AM | Assigning devotees for volunteer work |
| 9:10 AM | Assigning monks for overlook volunteer work |
| – Cleaning Windows and Doors – Arranging and cleaning chairs, pantry, kitchen, floor mats, dana hall (Arrange Napkins and cleaning item (like Glass cleaning liquids) – Cleaning Washrooms – Male devotees are allowed to clean the monks residing areas – Cleaning the book store | |
| 10:15 AM | Prepare for Buddha Puja and assign volunteers |
| 10:40 AM | Invite Monks – Buddha Puja and Dana |
| 10:40 AM | Chanting while monks are arriving – (Print the papers in-advance) |
| 10:45 AM | Offering Buddha Puja |
| 1:00 PM | Dhamma Sermon & Meditation |
| 2:30 PM | Chores |
| 2:45 PM | Refresh before leave (If we have an event scheduled outside) |
| 3:00 PM | Special program |
| 4:00 PM | Returning to the Monastery / Leaving via shuttle service – Cleaning the Kitchen – Cleaning/Arranging all the areas in the Monastery – Disposal of Garbage (Split the garbage) – Cleaning/Arranging all the areas in the Monastery |
| 5:00 PM | End of the Program |
📷 Gallery
