Burma Buddhist Association of Ontario

10/03/2026

🙏 Abhidhamma Day Celebration & Elderly Honouring Ceremony 🙏

Dear Dhamma Friends,

You, your family, and all fellow devotees are warmly invited to join us for the Abhidhamma Day Celebration at Mahadhammika Temple on Saturday, October 24 and Sunday, October 25, 2026.

As part of the celebration on Sunday, October 25, we will also have an Elderly Honouring Ceremony to pay respect to and celebrate our respected elders.

👵👴 Invitation to Honoured Elders

We warmly invite elderly members to participate as Honoured Elders. If you would like to participate, please kindly contact one of the numbers below by October 23, 2026 to confirm your participation. This will help us make the necessary arrangements and ensure that all Honoured Elders are properly welcomed and recognized.

📅 Program Schedule

Saturday, October 24, 2026
🕘 9:00 A.M. – Commencement of the nonstop Paṭṭhāna Chanting
🕕 6:00 P.M. – Thadingyut Festival of Lights

Sunday, October 25, 2026
🕘 9:00 A.M. – Conclusion of the nonstop Paṭṭhāna Chanting
🕙 10:00 A.M. – Offering of food to the Buddha, observance of the precepts, and recitation of the Metta Sutta and Paṭṭhāna passages
🕚 11:15 A.M. – Offering lunch to the Sangha, followed by lunch for devotees and guests
🕧 12:45 P.M. – Elderly Honouring Ceremony**

📍 Venue
Mahadhammika Temple
12 High Meadow Place
Toronto, ON M9L 2Z5

📞 Confirmation for Honoured Elders
Mahadhammika Temple: 416-747-7879
Daw Mae Kyi Win: 647-573-1081

Please join us for this auspicious and meritorious celebration, as we come together to share in the merits of this wholesome occasion and honour our respected elders.

We look forward to your presence and heartfelt participation. 🙏

09/30/2026

🙏 Seventh-Day Memorial Alms-Giving and Dhamma Discourse for U San Kyaw Maung 🙏

Following the passing of U San Kyaw Maung, Dhamma friends of Mahadhammika, together with relatives and family members, respectfully invite you to attend the Seventh-Day Memorial Alms-Giving and Dhamma Discourse held in his loving memory.

The bereaved family warmly invites everyone to join us in listening to the Dhamma and sharing in the merits.

📅 Saturday, October 3, 2026
⏰ 10:00 AM
📍 Mahadhammika Temple
12 High Meadow Place, Toronto, ON M9L 2Z5

09/28/2026

Obituary Announcement: Passing of U San Kyaw Maung

The Sayadaws of Mahadhammika Temple and the Executive Committee members of the Burma Buddhist Association of Ontario (BBAO) deeply regret to announce the passing of U San Kyaw Maung, beloved husband of Daw Khin Khin and cherished father of Ma Thin Moe Phyu, Ko Theing Tun Aung, Ko Aung Kyaw Myat, Ma Kay Thi, and Ko San Thein Myint.

U San Kyaw Maung passed away peacefully on September 27, 2026.

Our heartfelt condolences go to his family and loved ones during this difficult time.

Details of the funeral service will be announced by the family in due course.

09/24/2026

🎓 White Lotus Metta Scholarship Award Ceremony 2026–27 🎓

We were delighted to celebrate this year’s scholarship award ceremony at Mahadhammika Temple on September 13, 2026.

Congratulations to all the recipients! We wish you every success in the academic year ahead.

Photos from the ceremony and information about the 2027–28 scholarships are available at

Explore our scholarship criteria and discover how this opportunity may help achieve your academic goals.

09/08/2026

Group photo of the Sayadaws and the yogis at the end of the three-day Vipasanna meditation retreat on 7 September 2026, at Mahadhammika Temple in Toronto, Canada.

09/04/2026

🎓 White Lotus Metta Scholarship Award Ceremony 2026 🎓

We are pleased to share the invitation to the 2026 White Lotus Metta Scholarship Award Ceremony, where we will come together to recognize and celebrate this year’s scholarship recipients and their accomplishments.

📅 Sunday, September 13, 2026
⏰ 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
📍 Mahadhammika Temple

Please see the invitation flyer for more details.

🌐 For more information about the White Lotus Metta Scholarship Program, please visit our website:
https://whitelotusmetta.com/

We warmly invite students, families, and members of our community to join us for this special occasion. 🙏

08/24/2026

Mahadhammika Temple Monthly Lunch Donation Calendar Update - မဟာဓမ္မိကကျောင်းတော် လစဉ်ဆွမ်းအလှူ ဇယားအသိပေးခြင်း
Dear all,
We would like to inform you of the regular monthly lunch donation calendar of the Mahadhammika temple for the months of September, October, November and December 2026.
If you would like to donate lunch for Saturday and Sunday, please kindly contact Mahadhammika Sayardaws at 416-747-7879.
If you would like to donate lunch on weekdays, approval from the regular donor is required. Please contact Sayardaws if you require assistance to contact the regular donor and to confirm your date of lunch donation.
Lunch donations for the deceased will be the highest priority and Sayardaws will accommodate lunch donation for the required date.
Please also contact Sayardaws, if you would like to donate for breakfast meal.
If you need assistance for meal donation arrangements, please contact BBAO to discuss about the options.
မဟာဓမ္မိကကျောင်းတော်၏၂၀၂၆ ခုနစ် September, October, November, December လများအတွက် ပုံမှန် လစဉ် နေ့ဆွမ်း ဇယားကို တင်ပြထားပါသည်။
စနေ၊တနင်္ဂနွေ နေ့များအတွက် နေ့ဆွမ်းကပ်လှူလိုပါက မဟာဓမ္မိကဆရာတော်များထံ ၄၁၆-၇၄၇-၇၈၇၉ သို့ဆက်သွယ်လျှောက်ထားပါရန် မေတ္တာရပ်ခံပါသည်။
တနင်္လာမှသောကြာ ရက်များအတွက် နေ့ဆွမ်းကပ်လှူလိုပါလျှင် ပုံမှန်ဆွမ်းအလှူရှင်များထံမှ သဘောတူညီမှု ရယူရန် လိုအပ်ပါသည်။ အလှူရှင်အားဆက်သွယ်ရန်အကူအညီလိုအပ်ပါက ဆရာတော်များထံဆက်သွယ်နိုင်ပါသည်။ ဆွမ်းရက်ကို ဆရာတော်များအားလျှောက်ထားပြီး အတည်ပြုရပါမည်။
နာရေးနှင့်ပတ်သက်သောဆွမ်းအလှူများကိုအဓိကဦးစားပေးရပါမည်။ လိုအပ်သောရက်ကိုလျှောက်ထားပါက ဆွမ်းအလှူများအဆင်ပြေရန် ဆရာတော်များက စီစဉ်ပေးပါမည်။
အာရုဏ်ဆွမ်းများလှူဒါန်းလိုပါကလည်း ဆရာတော်များထံ ဆက်သွယ်လျှောက်ထားနိုင်ပါသည်။
ဆွမ်းပို့ရန်အစီအစဉ်အတွက် အခက်အခဲရှိပါက BBAO ထံဆက်သွယ်ဆွေးနွေးနိုင်ပါသည်။
With metta,
BBAO Executive Committee

08/24/2026

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all the venerable monks, our main event sponsor Dr. Zeya and his family, BBAO members, volunteers, devotees, and supporters who participated in and contributed to the successful completion of the Metta Day Ceremony.

Your generosity, dedication, and selfless service helped make this meritorious occasion a meaningful and memorable event for our community.

May the merits of this wholesome deed bring you and your families peace, happiness, good health, and prosperity.

Sādhu! Sādhu! Sādhu! 🙏🙏🙏

08/14/2026

Dear Dhamma Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming Three-Day Vipassana Meditation Retreat led by Venerable Sajjana Thero.

This special meditation retreat is generously sponsored by the Burma Buddhist Association of Ontario and is organized to provide devotees and meditation practitioners an opportunity to cultivate mindfulness, inner peace, and spiritual development.

Please find the attached invitation and registration details for more information.

We warmly welcome your participation and look forward to practicing together.

08/12/2026

Dear Dhamma Friends,

You, your family, and all fellow devotees are warmly invited to join us for the Metta Day Celebration at Mahadhammika Temple.

This auspicious occasion will be dedicated to cultivating loving-kindness (Metta), sharing the merits of wholesome deeds, and receiving the blessings of the Buddha and the Sangha.

Program Schedule
Date: Sunday, August 23, 2026
Time:
* 10:00 A.M. – Observing the Five Precepts, offering alms-food to the Buddha, chanting Parittas, and sharing of merits
* 11:15 A.M. – Offering lunch to the Sangha, followed by lunch for devotees and guests
Venue:
Mahadhammika Temple
12 High Meadow Place
Toronto, ON M9L 2Z5

We look forward to your presence and heartfelt participation in this meaningful event.