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Creativity in Buddhist Movement

A case example of Yayasan Belia Buddhist Malaysia

By Ang Choo Hong

“Creativity is a combinatorial force: it’s our ability to tap into our

‘inner’ pool of resources – knowledge, insight, information,
inspiration and all the fragments populating our minds – that
we’ve accumulated over the years just by being present and alive

and awake to the world and to combine them in extraordinary
new ways.”

— Maria Popova, Brainpickings

Malaysian Sangha Fund

In early 2003, a young nun, who had just graduated from the

Malaysian Buddhist Institute, aspired to further her study in a
secular university in Taiwan. Her application to the university

was successful, but she faced a big problem. Her monastery was
not willing to sponsor her study. She was an unknown young nun
and not many people were willing to offer dana for her study.

“I was so desperate, I was lost!”, she recalled her moment of

despair as she wept away her tears.

“Fortunately, the Malaysian Sangha Fund came forward and

offered me a scholarship of RM1000. It wasn’t much but it was
incredibly helpful at my moment of despair. With that money I

flew to Taiwan and continued my study.”

Today this nun is a PhD student and had presented some papers

in international conferences.
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