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Dharma course in the NS. for 14 weeks and 8 weeks respectively. ‘Circle of In 1972, the WFBY was founded during the 10th former friendly relationship between YBAM and
On 27 December 2005, YBAM was officially Perfection’ was also awarded as runner-up in Ai General Conference of the World Fellowship WFBY was restored. Now, apart from WFBY,
appointed by the National Service Training FM 10th anniversary of song chart. Besides that, of Buddhists (WFB) held in Sri Lanka. WFBY YBAM is also actively maintaining friendly and
Department (JLKN) as the out-camp Dharma ‘The Origin under the Roof’ was also the first is an international Buddhist youth leading cooperative relationship with Buddhist youth
course coordinator. Since then, YBAM has Buddhist hymns album nominated for Malaysia organisation, with headquarters located in organisations in different countries, to jointly
started to coordinate and arrange for the PWH Music Award. Bangkok, Thailand. Its members have so far promote Buddhism learning among Buddhist
Buddhist trainees to visit nearby Buddhist covered 13 countries and regions. As one of youth.
organisations to perform religious prayers and Buddhist Forum the founding members, YBAM has been the
to participate in out-camp Buddhist activities sole representative of Malaysian Buddhist youth. The Completion of
once weekly. On 28 April 2006, YBAM Buddhist Fellowship in Singapore organised a Throughout the years, YBAM has actively taken Puzhao Buddhist Vihara
received another official appointment letter Global Conference on Buddhism in 2000 that part in activities and meetings, participated in the
from the JLKN to become the in-camp Dharma received an overwhelming response from the annual Buddhist youth exchange programme, YBAM Puzhao Buddhist Vihara was granted the
course coordinator. After being handed such a public with more than one thousand attendees. arranged Malaysian Buddhist youth to interact permit to resume works two days before the 12th
huge responsibility, YBAM put in even greater The success of this activity has motivated the with Buddhist youth from other countries. National General Election in 2008 (March 6).
efforts in arranging speakers to teach in the Malaysian Buddhist community. Hence, YBAM,
NS, conducting a series of train-the-trainer Buddhist Gem Fellowship (BGF), and Buddhist Since its establishment, the WFBY has been From the resumption of work permit to
workshops, and producing relevant teaching Missionary Society Malaysia (BMSM) organised committed to develop friendship between completion of work, there were cumbersome
syllabus and materials. the 2nd Global Conference on Buddhism in Buddhist youth and to actively promote the follow-ups on documents (although permission
YBAM continued to conduct in-camp and out- 2002 with the permission of the Singapore exchange of cultural, publication, arts, academic to resume work had been granted, there
camp Dharma courses until the government Buddhist Fellowship in Kuala Lumpur. It has research, and education among Buddhist youth were still many documents and drawings that
announced the abolishment of the NS on 13 become a hot topic in the community. from various countries. Throughout the years, needed to be submitted to different government
August 2018. YBAM has been actively participating in the departments; it was also necessary to deal with
After that, YBAM actively planned for the 2004 activities of the WFBY, promoting the learning the compound fines caused by land conversion),
Malaysian Buddhist Hymns and International Buddhist Forum. This international and exchange among Buddhist youth, and planned buildings that had been abandoned for
Compositions forum in the Chinese language also gained nurturing Buddhist leaders. more than two decades (required reinforcement

immense success, with theses presented by local and restoration towards the original building
In the new millennium, YBAM and YBBM and overseas renowned Dharma teachers, Until June 2012, YBAM Deputy President was structure, and made sure the 20 years old
published a new album ‘Melody of Truth and scholars, and practitioners from three principal asked to leave the Executive Board Meeting architectural design to meet the contemporary
Beauty’, invigorating the development of Chinese schools of Buddhism. YBAM hoped that through as she was not a member of the board (the requirements), and fundraising (After more than
Buddhist hymns and introducing a livelier the forum, the Buddhists were provided with a representative of YBAM was the then President). 20 years since the last fundraising campaign,
melody. It is a concept album with Buddhism platform to address the Buddhism views towards At the same time, another non-WFBY member inflation rates have increased, Puzhao Buddhist
as its core values. It is not merely a collection contemporary issues. Therefore, the theme from Malaysia was invited to attend the meeting. Vihara could no longer cope with the massive
album of Buddhist hymns, the lyrics used were for the forum has been set as ‘Contemporary The non-member submitted the proposal to join construction cost).
refreshing and touching. Two years later, the Buddhism’. WFBY in the meeting. In the same meeting, WFBY
publication of ‘The Origin under the Roof’ music also allowed a Malaysian who has been living On 17 June 2015, Puzhao Buddhist Vihara
album saw similar achievement and was equally At that time, small scale workshops or talk is in Malaysia to represent a Taiwanese Buddhist obtained the completion and occupation permit
popular among the youth and Buddhist societies the principal Dharma propagation model in organisation to be elected as a member of the and celebrated the inauguration ceremony
in universities. Malaysia, whereas seminar or forum model is executive board. in conjunction with the 45th anniversary of
not common. Since then, many similar Buddhist YBAM on 11 July of the same year. 25 years
The original Buddhist hymns are not only forums were organised and laid out a new path Following the incident, YBAM expressed of waiting and longing is not only for the sake
popular within the Buddhist community, ‘Circle for the Dharma propagation in the country. dissatisfaction through letters and several of the moment of its completion but also a
of Perfection’ recorded in the album ‘Melody informal meetings. After that, YBAM kept a witness to the difficulty of the development of
of Truth and Beauty’ and ‘Eye’ recorded in World Fellowship of Buddhists Youth distance from WFBY, did not take part in any religious freedom in Malaysia. In the meantime,
the album ‘The Origin under the Roof’ were (WFBY) WFBY activities, but did not withdraw from it is inevitable to deal with ‘Little Napoleon’ in
046 ranked first continuously in Ai FM song charts WFBY either. It was not until 2018 that the government departments and to face difficult 047

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