The Fourth Annual V-Star :: Dhammakaya Foundation & Wat Phra Dhammakaya : World Peace through Inner Peace using Meditation Practice  

 

The Fourth Annual V-Star
December 12, 2009 at Wat Phra Dhammakaya, Pathumthani, Thailand Project Introduction – The Moral Revival for the World This unprecedented project for the Moral Revival of the World was created and initiated by the Most Venerable Phrarajbhavanavisudh ( Luang Phor Dhammajayo ) The Abbot of Wat Phradhamakaya. His main goal is to drive home the importance of cultivating a deep sense of right and wrong and instill in the minds of the youth around the world an unshakable guiding awareness and appreciation of timeless moral values that can guide and preserve them throughout their lives. This deep awareness can be achieved in the lives of the youth today by continual training and the creating of new positive habits on a daily basis. These habits based on solid moral and ethical teachings automatically engender good thought, good speech and good actions benefiting not only the individual by all of society and the world! Since the V-Star Unity Project began in 2007, organizing committees for the program have provided full scholarships and all manner of learning media as well as equipment to both facilitate and directly cultivate a genuine moral and ethical awareness for all the youth who have attended the project. The V-Star Unity Project has a nation wide biannual continuing morals based follow-up educational plan to reinforce the teachings and monitor how well the participating students are progressing. During this time period realistic evaluations are conducted to measure the effectiveness and success of raising the moral standards of the youth from the participating schools throughout Thailand simultaneously twice a year. The evaluations were made three times in the first and the second semesters of the school year. There will be a second evaluation of the year 2009 on Saturday, December 12 which will be the fourth organized project since the program was launched. In the past, without fail, during every evaluation, more than 500,000 students from 5,000 schools have faithfully participated. On this occasion, The International Buddhist Society under the patronage of the Most Ven. Somdejphramaharatchamangkalajahn, has requested that Wat Phradhammakaya provide the sites and vast facilities of The Saphadhammakayasakol { The Great Meditation Hall}, The Grand Meditation Stadium as well as the Grand Meditation Square, all of which are located in the temple in Pathumthani Thailand. These magnificent structures and locales will be the center for all the evaluating activities mentioned. As of this the fourth evaluation, there will be a great deal of students not only from Buddhist schools but many other inter-denominational schools coming to participate in a multitude of exciting and fun filled activities on Saturday, December 12, 2009 as this following schedule.

Morning Session

The exchange activities for Buddhism Learning To Be Leaders for a Moral Revival in the World. Exhibition on the Lord Buddha’s Life, Teachings and Times such as the Ten Life Times of Existence of the Lord Buddha, Understanding Who and What Are Ghosts, the dangers of liquor and Hell.
  • Procession of Angelic Vehicles
  • Leadership Activities Promoting a Moral Revival for The World
  • Lunch time
  • Special V-Star Variety Program and Seminar

Afternoon Session: Project Contests

  • The Official Opening Ceremony of the V-Star project by the Honorable Governor of Pathumthani province Thailand. : The Test of Fundamental Knowledge of Buddhism

Evening Session: Buddhist Pledge to be practicing dedicated Buddhists and the presentation of he winner’s cup trophy

  • The ceremonial president delivers a speech to all
  • V-Star students, teachers and parents.
  • Meditation time
  • The ceremonial Buddhist pledge
  • The presentation of Vacharakiatikhun Trophies
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