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The GREAT WISDOM CENTER or WAT BUDDHABHAVANA OF MA, a Buddhist Meditation Center, was created and incorporated as a NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION in the year 1996 as a "Great" gathering place for the sharing of "Wisdom", truth, knowledge, healing and most importantly, love of the center in each of us, our hearts. Wisdom is a Universal pearl of tremendous value, awaiting personal cultivation and realization.

MAHAPAÑÑA VIHARA, Great Wisdom Center, is the 'shell', the body, the school and gathering place for individuals of all beliefs, culture, educational backgrounds and ages to cultivate their personal pearls of wisdom and heart and to share in the wondrous journey of others.

Our Center (Temple) is open to general public, We are please to welcome you, your family and friends to visit our beautiful place....

We would like to invited you and your family to celebrate Kathina Ceremony (Offering of Kathina Robe ) on November 9th 2008, Sunday, 10am.

No Yoga class until first week of March.

See Slide Show of the Activities of the Temple

Buddhist monks thanked for triathlon support

By Jim Barisano

Tue Aug 05, 2008, 03:19 PM EDT

Littleton -

At the Littleton Rotary Club’s weekly meeting on Friday, August 1st at Ken's American Cafe, Abbot Ajahn Mangkone and his fellow monks of Temple Wat Buddhabhavana in Westford received the gratitude of the club members for their help with the highly successful Appleman Triathlon charitable event....more

We need your DONATION to pay for the Temple Van !

This van will be use to shuttle children to the temple for Summer Cultural School Camp 2008.

Harvard Unitversity: The Pluralism project; Profile of Wat Buddhabhavana

History

Originally known as The Laotian Temple of Massachusetts, Wat Buddhabhavana was founded in the mid-1990s by a small Lao community in Lowell, Massachusetts. In the early 2000s, due to the illness of the head monk of the temple and his subsequent retirement, the temple's lay board members considered dissolving the temple. However, board members happened to hear of Venerable Ajahn Mangkone.... more

Meditation practice 'frees' inmates

by Rich Barlow, The Boston Globe, December 15, 2007

Westford, MA (USA) -- It's not every teacher whose class attendance depends on whether there's a lockdown under way. But the Venerable Ajahn David Chutiko, a Buddhist monk, has accustomed himself to the vicissitudes of prison life in three years of teaching meditation at the Federal Medical Center Devens... More

Venerable Daivd Chutiko (Vice Abbot)

Buddhist monks creating a peaceful place in Westford

By MARIE DONOVAN, Lowell Sun, Nov 6, 2005

WESTFORD, Mass. (USA) -- When the Venerable Ajahn Mangkone Dhammadharo occasionally goes out on the town, the first thing a stranger may notice about the Buddhist monk is his appearance... More

<< Venerable Ajahn Mangkone Dhammadharo, right, abbot of the Wat Buddha Bhavana temple in Westford. At left is Buddhist monk Venerable David Chutiko. Sun photo by Benjamin McElroy.

Vesak

Traditionally, Buddha's Birthday is known as Vesak or Visakah Puja (Buddha's Birthday Celebrations). Vesak is the major Buddhist festival of the year as it celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha on the one day, the first full moon day in May, except in a leap year when the festival is held in June. This celebration is called Vesak being the name of the month in the Indian calendar...More

An ancient town in Laos grapples with modernity

By Seth Mydans, IHT, April 13, 2008

LUANG PRABANG, Laos -- As the sky grows light along the Mekong River here, it is no longer the quiet footfalls of Buddhist monks that herald the day but the jostling and chattering of hundreds of tourists who have come to watch them on their morning rounds.

<< Western and Asian tourists jockey for position to photograph Buddhist monks in Luang Prabang, Laos, on February 19. (David Longstreath/The Associated Press)

"Here they come! Here they come!" cries a tour guide over his loudspeaker. "Hurry! Hurry!"....more