Cash and kind donated to monasteries in Tamway, Mingala Taungnyunt, Ahlon

Yangon, 19 Sept - Families of the Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air) and wellwishers donated cash and kind to 18 monasteries in Tamway and Mingala Taungnyunt Townships, Yangon East District, at a ceremony held at Sasana Jeyamingala Pariyatti Monastery in Natchaung Ward, Tamway Township, this afternoon. State Peace and Development Council Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Thein Sein attended the ceremony and offered provisions to Sayadaws.

Also present on the occasion were Yangon Division Peace and Development Council Chairman Yangon Command Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe, Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement Maj-Gen Sein Htwa, Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs Brig-Gen Thura Aung Ko, Vice-Chairman of Yangon City Development Committee Vice-Mayor Col Maung Pa, senior military officers of the Ministry of Defence, local authorities, and wellwishers.

At first, Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Thein Sein and party and wellwishers received the Eight Precepts from Aungmyay Beikman Monastery Sayadaw Bhaddanta Dhammisara, Chairman Sayadaw of Mingala Taungnyunt Township Sangha Nayaka Committee. Next, the Secretary-2 and party offered provisions to Sayadaws.

Maj-Gen Aung Thein of the Ministry of Defence, Cmdr Khin Maung Soe of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Navy), and Colonel General Staff (Air) Lt-Col Nay Win of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Air), offered rice, edible oil, medicines, beans and pulses donated by families of the Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air)  to the Sayadaw.

Maj-Gen Myint Swe, Brig-Gen Thura Aung Ko, Col Maung Pa and local authorities presented provisions donated by Yangon Division PDC, Ministry of Religious Affairs, YCDC, Yangon East District, and Tamway and Mingala Taungnyunt Township PDCs to Sayadaws.

Yangon Division Fisheries Enterprise, the Ministry of Mines, Yangon Division Salt Industry, families of the Traditional Medicines Department, and medical houses such as Sandi, Tun Shwe Wa, Great Wall, Htet Lin, Thamadawgyi U Shwe Hmya, and Aung Myitta Company, also donated rice, edible oil, iodized salt, toothpaste, traditional medicines, soap, and ball-point pens to Sayadaws.

Families of the Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air), local authoritative bodies, social organizations, companies and wellwishers donated cash to the trust funds of respective monasteries. Secretary-2 Lt-Gen Thein Sein, Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe, Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aung Ko, Vice- Mayor Col Maung Pa and senior military officers accepted the donations. Next, Col Aye Thaw of the Ministry of Defence explained the purpose of the donation of rice, edible oil, medicines and other provisions. Tamway Township Sasana Zeyamingala Pariyatti Monastery's Presiding Sayadaw Bhaddanta Pa–inda delivered a sermon, followed by the sharing of merits gained.

Today's donation to the 18 monasteries in Tamway and Mingala Taungnyunt Townships amounted to 450 bags of rice, 170 viss of edible oil, 340 viss of beans, 1,698 viss of iodized salt, 519 pieces of toothpaste, 4,960 bottles of traditional medicine, 3,396 bars of soap, 36 ball-point pens, and K 9,616,110.

Similarly, the families of the Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air) and wellwishers donated cash and kind to six monasteries in Ahlon Township, Yangon West District. The ceremony took place at Kwinkyaung Pariyatti Monastery in the township at 12 noon. Chairman of the Ahlon Township Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee and Presiding Sayadaw of the monastery Sayadaw Bhaddanta Pan–asiri and member Sayadaws, Yangon Command Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe, Minister Maj-Gen Sein Htwa, Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aung Ko, Vice- Mayor Col Maung Pa, senior military officers, departmental officials, local authorities, members of social organizations, wellwishers, and religious organizations.

Lecturer Sayadaw of Kwinkyaung Pariyatti Monastery Dhamma-kathika Bhaddanta Rajinda invested the commander, the minister and party with the Five Precepts. Next, the commander offered provisions to the Presiding Sayadaw. The minister, the deputy minister, the vice- mayor and senior military officers also offered provisions to Sayadaws.

Next, on behalf  of the  families of the Tatmadaw (Army,  Navy  and  Air) Maj-Gen Aung Thein of the Ministry of Defence, Cmdr Khin Maung Soe of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Navy), and Colonel General Staff (Air) Lt-Col Nay Win of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Air), offered rice, edible oil, medicines, beans and pulses to the Presiding Sayadaw.

The commander, the deputy minister and the vice-mayor also offered provisions donated by their respective departments to the Presiding Sayadaw. Later, officials of the Union of Myanmar Economics Holdings Ltd, the Ministry of Mines, the Ministry of Health, brokerages, medical houses, social organizations, and well-wishers also donated provisions to the Presiding Sayadaw.

The families of the Tatmadaw (Army, Navy and Air) and wellwishers from business companies, medical houses, social organizations, tourism industries, also donated cash to the trust funds of the monastery. Commander Maj-Gen Myint Swe, Minister Maj-Gen Sein Htwa and Deputy Minister Brig-Gen Thura Aung Ko accepted the donations.

Colonel General Staff (Air) Lt-Col Nay Win of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief (Air) explained the purpose of the donation of rice, edible oil, salt, medicines and beans. Next, Bhaddanta Rajinda delivered a sermon on behalf of Presiding Sayadaw Bhaddanta Pan–asiri.

Today's donation to the six monasteries in Ahlon Township totalled 197 bags of rice, 694 viss of edible oil, 138 viss of bean, 694 viss of iodized salt, 139 pieces of toothpaste, 3,018 bottles of traditional medicines, 1,388 bars of soap, and K 3,001,090.