Extending the Life of Buddhism with a Gift of Health for Monks and Novices,
join in the founding of a medical and rehabilitation center for monks and novices.
The Boonraksa Medical Center at the Dhammakaya Temple, Pathum Thani, Thailand
What you give is what you get. No gift is greater than a gift of life with good health. As monks and novices are the people who pass on the teachings of the Buddha. supporting their health treatment and recovery is equivalent to extending the life of Buddhism and bringing happiness to a countless number of fellow human beings.
The Dhammakaya Temple would like to invite you to join the founding of a six-storey health center that will provide basic medical treatment and rehabilitation services for monks and novices. With 45 years of promoting world peace through inner peace, the temple now has well over 3,000 monks and novices – and the number is growing. Considering the rising costs of transportation, medical treatment and rehabilitation services, it is far more convenient and cost-effective for the temple to have its own health center.
Operated by onsite medical professionals, all facilitates and services are especially designed with the Buddhist canon in mind to enable monks and novices to continue to meet the rules and requirements of monkhood even while they are receiving treatment or recovering from an illness. This includes, among others, chanting and meditation rooms, televised and radio broadcast of Dhamma programs, and sustenance provided within the boundaries of the canon.
“Those who wish to look after me, the Buddha, should look after monks who are unwell.”
The proximity of the center means a saving of cost and time otherwise spent on commuting back and forth – both for visitors and patients. On top of that, the fact that it is located within the temple’s compound gives the patients a comforting feeling of being close to home.
The Boonraksa Medical Center Comprises:
– Non-surgical medical treatment facilities and services, incuding dental services (Floors 1&2)
– Rehabilitation facilities and services for health recovery (Floors 3&6)
– Meditation and chanting rooms for patients
Health is prerequisite to making the most of all that the life of a monk has to offer to the world.
A life with good health means a monk can use his assets – his wisdom. physical strenght and knowledge of Dhamma – to carry on his mission to spread world peace through inner peace with the teachings of the Buddha.
Those who contribute towards the founding of this medical and rehabilitating center are said to be giving monks and novices more time and opportunities to do more good for the world. Therefore, they will have a share in the goodness that the monks and novices sow in people’s hearts.
Accordingly, they shall be blessed with good health, vitality, longevity, physical convenience, and warm hospitality, their negative karmic retribution will be diluted, and should it ever catch up with them, they will receive good treatment, care and compassion just as they have selflessly given out.
A groundbreaking ceremony will be held on Wednesday 22 April 2015, the 71st birthday anniversary of abbot Ven. Dhammajayo. On the same day, there will be an alms-offering ceremony involving Buddhist monks from over 30,000 temples across Thailand and overseas as well as a mass meditation session for all participants to unite in praying and sharing inner peace and happiness with the world.
Donations can be given between now and April 2015. For more information, please contact your nearest Dhammakaya meditation center.
