ISSN 1321 - 1463
Publication Date: 16 June 2003
Published and Printed by the Chan Academy Australia.
Chan Academy is a registered business name of the
Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.
A.C.N. 005 701 806 A.B.N. 42 611 496 488
33 Brooking Street, Upwey, Victoria 3158 Australia
Telephone and Fax: +61 3 9754 3334
E-mail address: wbu@bdcu.org.au
World Fellowship of Buddhists Regional Centre
Associated Institution of the World Buddhist University
Lifetimes of Learning
and the cultivation of Friendliness, Practicality, Professionalism,
Cultural Adaptability and Scholarship
Our web sites:
www.bdcu.org.au
www.bddronline.net.au
www.bdcublessings.net.au
www.bsbonline.com.au
www.buyresolved.com.au
Editors: John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem., T.T.T.C., GDAIE,
Anita Hughes RN Div 1
Assistant Editor: Leanne Eames, B.A. M.A.
Chan Academy Australia
Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. Disclaimer
As we, the Chan Academy Australia, Chan Academy being a registered business name of the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd., do not control the actions of our service providers from time to time, make no warranty as to the continuous operation of our web site(s). Also, we make no assertion as to the veracity of any of the information included in any of the links with our web sites, or any other source accessed through our web site(s).
Accordingly, we accept no liability to any user or subsequent third party, either expressed or implied, whether or not caused by error or omission on either our part, and member, employee or other person associated with the Chan Academy Australia, Chan Academy being a registered business name of the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.
May You Be Well and Happy.
The Purposes of this Publication
The purposes of this publication are to:
Inform Members and others of coming events.
Report on monitoring of current activities and policies.
Help Members and friends understand the benefits of using technology in our organisation for Teaching Buddha Dhamma.
Write in a style recognisable by those who use English as a second language.
Provide glossaries and definitions for key terms used for teaching Buddha Dhamma.
Improve, report and develop cash generating activities to promote Buddha Dhamma.
Show examples of Buddha Dhamma education within our five
styles of cultivation in action.
Provide timely advice on Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S).
Declare, celebrate and record scheduled Buddhist educational events.
Provide accurate information via our web site on how we educate on Buddha Dhamma legally in Victoria, Australia.
Provide opportunities for Buddha Dhamma activities and ceremonies.
Assist our globalisation of Buddha Dhamma education policy.
Provide text for our online version of the Brooking Street Bugle at www.bsbonline.com.au.
1. Glossary
2. Sangha News
3. Coming Events
4. Company Structure
5. Keynote Opportunities
6. Appeals and Special Projects
7. Current Research and Development Interests
8. John D. Hughes’ News
9. Information Technology News
10. Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S)
11. Corporate Governance & Reporting (CGR)
12. International Dhamma Activities (IDA)
13. Local Area Planning & Asset Management (LAPAM)
14. Members’ News
15. Funds Appeal
16. Photographs
17. Transferring of Merit
18. Appendix
Copyright Provisions
The Brooking Street Bugle is for free distribution. It contains Buddha Dhamma material and is provided for the purposes of research and study. It is also published online with colour photographs at www.bsbonline.com.au. Brooking Street Bugle On Line is a registered Business Name in the state of Victoria. Permission is given to make printouts of this publication for free distribution only with acknowledgements of the source, Australian Company Number ACN, Australian Business Number ABN and publication address. Please keep it in a clean place.
"The gift of Dhamma excels all other gifts".
© 2002, Copyright. Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.
1. Glossary
2. Sangha News
Vajrasattva Puja
Visiting Teacher, Master Francisco So conducted the Vajrasattva Puja at the Chan Academy Australia on 9 June 2003 (Queen's Birthday weekend) from 9.30am to 11.30am and from 1.30pm to 4.00pm.
Members and friends offered round fruit, sweet biscuits and flowers.
Abhidhamma Classes
Abhidhamma classes continue every Tuesday evening at 7.30pm. These classes run for nine years. We have completed one year of classes.
These classes are free of charge to students.
We will continue to document weekly lessons for nine years and publish these in our online journal the Buddha Dhyana Dana Review at www.bddronline.net.au and www.bdcu.org.au.
Students are requested to bring suitable offerings each week to the Abhidhamma Teachings each week including flowers, Basmati rice and two reams of A4 paper.
New students are enjoying these classes and maturing under
these teachings.
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3. Coming Events
Founder's Day Puja, will be taught by Master Francisco So at the Chan Academy Australia on 6 September 2003 from 9.30am to 11.30am and from 1.30pm to 4.00pm.
A Five Day Bhavana Course will be held from 5 September 2003 to 9 September 2003 from 9.00am to 5.00pm daily.
The theme is: Dana how many ways?
Founder's Day is celebrated on 9 September 2003.
The theme for this year's Chan Academy Australia Sumi-e program taught by visiting Master Andre Sollier is "The 7 Factors of Enlightenment (in Pali bojjhanga pabba)".
On 26 July 2003 Sumi-e Master Andre Sollier will teach at ther Chan Academy Australia and the theme for the class is "effort, energy" in Pali language that is viriya - sambojjangha
4. Company Structure
Our Company Office Bearers and Management Team
Resident Practitioners
John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE
Anita Hughes R.N.Div.1
Directors of the Centre
Julian Bamford B.A.App.Rec.
Evelin Halls Dip. Foreign Language Correspondence
Peter Boswell CPA
Office Bearers
President Julian Bamford B.A.App.Rec.
Treasurer Peter Boswell CPA
Secretary Pennie White B.A. Dip.Ed.
Vice Presidents
International Dhamma Activities
Pennie White B.A. Dip.Ed.
Corporate Governance & Reporting
Evelin Halls Dip.F.L.C.
Local Area Planning & Asset Management
Frank Carter B.Ec.
The Directors, Office Bearers and Vice Presidents are responsible to a General Committee comprising all financial Members of the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.
Joint Librarians
John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE
Anita Hughes R.N.Div.1
Assistant Librarian
Julie O’Donnell
Chief Information Officer
Leanne Eames B.A., M.A.
Financial Controller
Peter Boswell CPA
Manager Occupational Health & Safety
Anita Hughes R.N.Div1
Frank Carter B.Ec.
Manager Enterprise Technology
Evelin Halls Dip.F.L.C.
IT Technical Support
Kamfatt Lin B.Sc (Eng), MCP, CNA, MCSE, MCDBA
IT Development Engineer
John Watson Senior CTS Engineer, Programmer
IT Software Developer
Arthur Lipscombe
Editor Buddha Dhyana Dana Review
John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE
Assistant Editor Buddha Dhyana Dana Review
Pennie White B.A. Dip.Ed.
Executive Producer Buddhist Hour Broadcast
Pennie White B.A. Dip.Ed.
Editor Brooking Street Bugle
John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem., T.T.T.C. GDAIE and
Anita Hughes Reg. Nurse Div 1.
Assistant Editor Brooking Street Bugle
Leanne Eames B.A. M.A.
Editors Longhair Australia News
John D. Hughes Dip.App.Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE
Julian Bamford B.A.App.Rec.
Leanne Eames B.A. M.A.
Evelin Halls Dip.F.L.C.
Pennie White B.A. Dip.Ed.
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5. Keynote Opportunities
To reduce fire hazards in garden.
Buddha Dhyana Dana Review
We are looking for persons who would like to print issues of the Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Online for our John D. Hughes Collection library.
We require at least five copies of each issue.
The issues can be printed directly from the BDDR websites www.bdcu.org.au and www.bdcublessings.net.au
Please see Evelin or Pennie if you would like to lead this project.
Chan Academy Australia Brochures
We aim to have a stock of 100 current Chan Academy Australia brochure printed onsite at all times.
The brochures are handed out to visitors to the Temple, and activities such as the weekly Camberwell market each Sunday morning.
We also plan to have a stock of 50 brochures for the Chan Academy Australia's Sumi-e classes for 2003.
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6. Appeals and Special Projects
Camberwell Market Stall
The Camberwell Market is held every Sunday morning.
For helping offers or donations, see Frank Carter.
Storage of Camberwell Market goods
Thank you to our neighbour Mavis, who has kindly provided storage space for our market stall goods.
Would Members and friends please look for another suitable location to store these goods off site. Please contact Frank Carter.
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7. Current Research and Development Interests
We have a Celeron chip computer to update our systems. This machine is faster than any we have and will replace the processors of PC4.
8. John D. Hughes' News
John D. Hughes and Anita M. Hughes have returned home on 10 June 2003 with medical equipment to sustain his convalescence. Anita Hughes is his carer.
Equipment was provided free of charge from Maroondah hospital and included food, a wheel chair and suction equipment.
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9. Information Technology News
We need a network driver to be installed on PC1A so that it can connect to LAN 2.
We also need LAN 1 to be operational as soon as possible.
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10. Occupational Health and Safety News (OH&S)
We must start on fuel reduction in our garden to be ready for summer and must replace the amenities entrance with solid wood.
11. Corporate Government & Reporting (CGR)
Colour Code: Red
CGR Manager: Pennie White
CGR Vice President: Evelin Halls
CGR Task Unit Members: Julian Bamford, Peter Boswell, Frank Carter, Leanne Eames, Lenore Hamilton, Lisa Nelson, Lainie Smallwood, Anita Hughes, Amber Svensson.
CGR Task Unit Responsibilities: Adhere to legal requirements of corporate affairs; accounts; communicate with Federal, State and Local government departments; organise GST payments; supply Australian Tax Office with Business Activity Statements; provide timely managerial information to ensure profits are made; provide quarterly Profit and Loss Activity Statements; arrange for the audit of accounts at a professional level to meet the Statutory requirements of the Gaming Commission of New South Wales (NSW).; arrange General meetings and maintain statutory minutes for these meetings; monitor and adhere to Occupational Health and Safety (OH&S) policy; provide first aid facilities; organise attendants for staffing the Centre; correspondence; schedule events for our Teacher; structure new databases and train persons to maintain them; train personnel to operate CGR functions; refreshment supply; fund and organise Dana for the Sangha visiting the Centre; create goodwill with our neighbours; and with local newspapers to advise the community of upcoming events.
Photocopier
We will source a photocopier for use at the Centre. Anyone wishing to donate a photocopier please see Frank Carter.
General meetings held last Friday of each Month
One of the duties and responsibilities of each Members is to attend General and Annual General meetings. We must assure that the required quorum of seven Members is always met. The Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd. General meetings are held on the last Friday of each month at 8:00pm.
All Members are welcome.
Attendant Roster
Members are requested to update the dates and times of the various rosters where they intend to be at the Centre each week.
The rosters for Centre attendants, Centre night attendants, evening and day rosters are located at i:\Centre Rosters on LAN 2 and can be accessed from PC14A using Lotus 123.
Please feel free to participate in populating these roster.
Camberwell Market
The Camberwell Market Stall held on Sunday 15 June 2003 raised the following amounts of money:
Profit $183.75
Raffle $80
Bangladesh Stand $18.60
The sales team for the day was Julian Bamford and Lenore Hamilton until approximately 9.30 am then Frank Carter and Evelin Halls.
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12. International Dhamma Activities (IDA)
Colour Code: Yellow
IDA Manager: Evelin Halls
IDA Vice-President: Pennie White
IDA Task Unit Members: John D. Hughes, Julian Bamford, Peter Boswell, Leanne Eames, Julie O’Donnell, Anita Hughes.
IDA Task Unit Responsibilities: To maintain WFB liaison; to maintain WBU liaison; to arrange Abhidhamma Teachings and Prajna Paramita Teachings; chanting, pujas, translations; to maintain and preserve the John D. Hughes Collection; to organise audio and video recordings of teachings and events; to develop and maintain the Centre's IT systems, data warehouse, LAN and web sites; to train Members to become Webmasters; to develop e-commerce; to produce, edit, publish and distribute the BDDR and BSB, to write and broadcast "Buddhist Hour" radio scripts; to organise and teach Chan classes.
Chan Academy Sumi-e Program 2003
Visiting Master Andre Sollier will teach Sumi-e classes at the Chan Academy Australia this year.
Theme for 2003 is "The Seven Factors of Enlightenment"
Master Sollier has prepared seven paintings, one for each of seven Sumi-e classes. Master Sollier has given us permission to copy the pictures for display on our websites.
The original paintings have been scanned and can be viewed at www.bdcu.org.au and www.buyresolved.com.au. Each painting has a short description included with it.
The seven paintings were digitally scanned and up loaded onto our websites on 31 January 2003.
The dates and titles of the next five classes are:
Winter:
Class 3: 26 July 2003
"Energy"
Class 4: 23 August 2003
"Rapture or Happiness"
Spring:
Class 5: 27 September 2003
"Calm"
Class 6: 25 October 2003
"Concentration"
Class 7: 29 November 2003
"Equanimity"
Classes are held in the Chan Hall among rare calligraphy, Chan and Sumi-e masterpieces. All classes run from 10.00am to 3.00pm.
The cost of each class is $66.00 including GST. The class fee includes all materials.
Students may also purchase painting materials from our Centre.
An opportunity exists for the right person to train under Julian Bamford as an organiser of these classes. Julian has eight years experience in this position.
For class booking, purchase of materials and enquiries please contact Julian Bamford on 0400 267 330.
Filing our weekly Buddhist Hour radio broadcast scripts
Each week we produce five copies of the Buddhist Hour program including running sheets, script and selling sheets for The John D. Hughes Collection. The copies are stored in two ring lever arc binders.
Two copies for John D. Hughes are stored in folders in the Sariputta room store.
May we preserve our Buddha Dhamma Heritage.
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13. Local Area Planning & Asset Management (LAPAM)
Colour Code: Green
LAPAM Manager: Frank Carter
LAPAM Vice President: Frank Carter
LAPAM Task Unit Members: Julian Bamford, Peter Boswell, Frank Carter, Brendan Hall, Evelin Halls, Lenore Hamilton, David Igracki, Leila Igracki, Rodney Johnson, David Ley, Brent Kerr, Lisa Nelson, Kate Ryan, Amber Svensson.
LAPAM Task Unit Responsibilities: To maintain and develop the buildings and gardens of the Centre; to undertake new construction works; to refurbish the Centre buildings; and to look after equipment and supplies.
New Private Bathroom
The new private bathroom is completed with the addition of a hand rail.
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14. Members’ News
Lenore Hamilton is studying her last subject before she graduates from Swinbourne TAFE Diploma of Management Course.
Julie O'Donnell will visit Mongolia from 3 July to 24 July 2003.
Leanne Eames has become a Member of the Pali Text Society. Leanne plans to study Pali at Masters level.
Pennie White turns 27 on 16 June 2003 she spent the day at our Temple.
She practised dana in ten ways:
1) food
2) water
3) liquids
4) flowers
5) shelter and lodgings
6) building
7) Buddha Dhamma texts
8) medicine
9) clothing
10) Dedication of Merits
She is in the final year of a Master of Education (Information and Communication Technologies) Degree.
Pennie has completed four course work subjects:
The impact of computer technology on society;
Issues in Educational Multimedia;
Educational Research Methods;
Explorations in Learning Instructional Design and Technology.
This year Pennie is researching and writing a theses on "The use of information and communication technology by the World Buddhist University".
Pennie plans to travel to the World Buddhist University headquarters in Thailand where she will conduct some of her research.
Pennie has been requested to present a paper on her research at the Monash Asia Institute this year.
15. Funds Appeal