{"id":323,"date":"2007-06-19T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/06\/19\/buddhist-mass-wedding-on-07-07-07\/"},"modified":"2007-06-19T09:00:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T01:00:24","slug":"buddhist-mass-wedding-on-07-07-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/06\/19\/buddhist-mass-wedding-on-07-07-07\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist mass wedding on 07-07-07"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buddhist mass wedding on 07-07-07<\/p>\n

By LIM CHIA YING<\/b><\/div>\n
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COUPLES intending to get married can join in a mass wedding at the Buddhist Maha Vihara in Brickfields on July 7.  <\/p>\n

Chief High Priest of Malaysia The Most Venerable K Sri Dhammaratana Maha Nayaka Thera, who initiated the event, said it was the first time in the temple's history that a mass wedding was held.  <\/p>\n

He said 50 couples would be united on that day to coincide with Malaysia’s 50th Independence this year.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Dhammaratana: 50 couples to be united on that day to coincide with the country’s 50th Independence Day.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The temple's in-house assistants registrar of marriages Jimmy Chan Paik Yim and Victor James Pandita would be in charged of the wedding registration.  <\/p>\n

“After the registration, we'll arrange for them to do a wedding procession inside the temple. There'll be 50 monks so each monk will be assigned to bless one couple. This is then followed by the drinking of holy water, a ritual signifying that husband and wife must share whatever secrets they have with each other,” Dhammaratana said.  <\/p>\n

After that, the 50 couples would be making their way down a wedding parade around the Brickfields area while sitting on horse carriages and trishaws!  <\/p>\n

Accompanying the entourage would be Malay, Chinese and Indian musicians.  <\/p>\n

“We'll have the kompang<\/i> group, lion and dragon dance, traditional Indian drums as well as Bhangra performance,” Dhammaratana said.  <\/p>\n

He said that by incorporating the above features, he hoped to encourage the Buddhist community to celebrate weddings the modern way.  <\/p>\n

There will be a mandatory briefing for accepted couples this Sunday at 2pm.   <\/p>\n

The top three Best Dressed Couples<\/i> on registration day will walk away with exciting prizes.   <\/p>\n

Emceeing the event are 8TV<\/i> news presenter Owen Yap and current Miss Malaysia World 2007 Deborah Priya Henry.  <\/p>\n

Those interested can obtain and fill in forms available at the Buddhist Maha Vihara.  <\/p>\n

TT Resources (Tai Thong Group) is the event's main sponsor while Bukit Bin-tang MCA chairman Datuk Dr Lee Chong Meng is one of the sponsors.  <\/p>\n

For enquiries, call Lucas at 012-225 1111 or Serene at 012-299 5879. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buddhist mass wedding on 07-07-07 By LIM CHIA YING   source COUPLES intending to get married can join in a mass wedding at the Buddhist Maha Vihara in Brickfields on July 7.  Chief High Priest of Malaysia The Most Venerable K Sri Dhammaratana Maha Nayaka Thera, who initiated the event, said it was the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[114,275],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","category-religion","tag-mca","tag-temples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}