Siddhartha: A Musical Journey to Enlightenment

Due to the positive response and overall success of the original production by BLIA Cebu and Chu Un Temple (慈恩寺), the musical play Siddhartha will be shown in Manila on November 3 and 4 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

For free ticket reservations or donations please call 63 (2) 5234909 or 63 (2) 5255941.

The show in Manila is presented by IBPS Manila (馬尼拉佛光山) and BLIA Philippines (國際佛光會菲律賓協會) .

Watch the trailer at YouTube.

Links:

• Official website
  

• 佛陀傳音樂劇十一月馬尼拉CCP盛大公演 (from http://fgs.org.tw)

• 人間音緣「星雲大師佛教歌曲發表會」-台中場 (from http://fgs.org.tw)

2007年度地藏法會 Chanting of Ksitigarbha Sutra

This year's Morning and Evening Chanting of Ksitigarbha Sutra (2007年度地藏法會) began on August 12 and is ongoing until August 25.

The Ksitigarbha Sutra is composed of 3 parts (上,中,下). Monday to Saturday chanting is mornings and evenings only. Sunday chanting is a whole day event.

Morning chanting begins at 6:00AM followed by breakfast.
Evening chanting begins at 7:30PM. Dinner is served at 6:00PM.

An excellent English translation of the Ksitigarbha Sutra by the Buddhist Text Translation Society is available here.

28th Manila International Book Fair

World Trade Center Metro Manila
August 29 - September 2, 2007

10:00 A.M — 8:00 P.M., Daily
Booth Nos. 367 & 368

We have a booth at this year's book fair at the World Trade Center. An extensive collection of books, audio CD's, cassettes and DVD's published by Fo Guang Shan in Chinese and English will be available.

Everyone is welcome to visit us. See you there.

佛光緣 IBPS Newsletter

The IBPS Newsletter (佛光緣) is a full page spread published in the local Chinese newspaper United Daily News (聯合報) every fourth Tuesday of the month.

Back issues are available for viewing or download (PDF) at our website at http://fgsphilippines.org/chinese/events/news.htm.

FGS Philippines in YouTube

Since we began making news clips of major activities for BLTV (人間衛視), we began uploading them to YouTube as well. When we attended the seminar at BLTV in April 2007, we were encouraged to upload the videos and news clips we made to sites like YouTube so that people who do not have access to BLTV will still be able to view them. To date, BLTV is not carried by any cable TV service provider in the Philippines.

The URL of our YouTube account is http://www.youtube.com/user/fgsphilippines. Unfortunately, the resolution of the videos have been reduced to fit YouTube's video uploading requirements. These video clips are also embedded in some of the pages of our website where articles about the event have been written.

Our new BLOG site

Our website has been up and running for over 2 years now. Aside from the several changes in the layout, the contents of the site has remained the same - a repository of articles, photos and video clips.

Although these are updated regularly, the flow of information is basically one-sided. We would like to change that. Hence, we've signed up for a BLOG site. Aside from regular updates on the website, we will also post remarks about website updates, recent articles and upcoming events. By posting these in the BLOG, our visitors are free to post their comments and suggestions.