Buddhist Pastorship Fund

FDR-PAS-1TM
RM30.00
Supports the Buddhist pastors of Kechara
Expresses your gratitude
Done-for-you merit dedication
Members earn reward points for puja & offering services. Learn more about Kechara membership.
Description

Supporting the people who spend their lives benefiting others is a highly meritorious action. Kechara's Buddhist pastors are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to offer help, guidance and service to the community of spiritual practitioners.

When you donate to the Buddhist Pastorship Fund, you support our pastors' daily expenses so that they can continue their sacred duties of caring for the spiritual community and ensuring the continuity of Buddha’s holy teachings. Your contribution will go a long way towards providing necessities such as food, lodging, transportation, ritual items, spiritual gifts for those in need, and other items necessary for pastoral work.

Please help our Pastors help others. Your generous support can make a difference.

* This is a donation/merit dedication service; no items will be shipped to you.
* Please read the “How Your Donation Helps” and “Service + Offering Guide” for additional information.
How Your Donation Helps
  • You allow the Pastors to bring spiritual solace and guidance to those who are in pain.
  • You allow the Pastors to guide others along their spiritual journeys.
  • You give Pastors the means to spend even more of their time and effort to serve others.
  • You provide the Pastors the means to make a real difference in people’s lives.
  • You ensure that the Buddhist teachings can be shared with others.
Service + Offering Guide

Making a Donation

  1. Set a positive motivation before making a donation. The purer your intention, the greater the merit generated.
  2. Select your desired amount and type of sponsorship (where applicable).
  3. In the “Dedication” section: Provide the name of the person/entity the sponsorship is dedicated to. You can also include a specific wish or request. Our sangha/pastors/team will dedicate the merits according to your wishes.
  4. In the “Sponsor” section: Provide the name of the sponsor (benefactor). This is optional; sponsors can choose to remain anonymous.
  5. After making the donation, rejoice and dedicate the merits you have generated.
  6. From time to time, we share updates of various projects on our website and social media pages (Facebook and Instagram). Please follow us if you would like to stay informed.

If you are uncertain which project is best suited to your interests or needs, please contact us for assistance.

More Information

Sponsoring the Sangha

Sangha are the community of ordained monks, nuns and lay practitioners who have devoted their lives to sharing the Buddhist tradition and serving the Buddhist community. For over 2,500 years, they have kept Buddha’s teachings alive in an unbroken lineage that is moist with his blessings. It is due to their kindness that we are able to receive the pure Dharma today.

Making dana offerings to the Sangha — which includes food, robes and basic necessities — is a mainstay of Buddhist practice. Buddha himself started the tradition of sponsoring the Sangha, showing us how we can express our appreciation for their compassionate activities.

“The act of making offerings to the Sangha is a fantastic way for us to collect merits and a great way to practice generosity, as taught by the Lord Buddha himself.”
– Tsem Rinpoche

Supporting the Sangha creates the causes for Dharma to remain. When we make sincere offerings, we create immeasurable positive results for our secular and spiritual goals. It also helps us overcome attachment and develop altruism. Even more, due to the higher nature of the object of offering, the happiness and sense of fulfilment we gain is unmatched by other forms of altruistic giving.

Please join us in creating the causes for the growth of Dharma, and for the inspiration, happiness and peace that you will gain in your life.

About Kechara’s Pastors

Kechara' Buddhist Pastors are selfless and committed individuals who have taken an extraordinary step in dedicating their lives towards sharing the Buddhist tradition and serving the Buddhist community.

Combining the responsibilities of the ordained and the appearance of a layperson, pastors are the connection between the sangha and the everyday practitioner. In effect, pastors are ordinary people who have made a commitment towards their spirituality, and the spirituality of others. Their duties include, but are not limited to:

  • Performing Buddhist prayers and rituals.
  • Performing last rites and bereavement services.
  • Performing blessing ceremonies.
  • Performing marriage registrations.
  • Conducting Buddhist educational programmes.
  • Conducting public talks and other outreach programmes.
  • Providing counselling in person and online.
  • Providing Dharma support and guidance to Buddhist study groups in Malaysia and Singapore.

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