Ten Rice Sacks Makes the Day of a Nunnery
As part of our effort to distribute funds intended for monastic sites as earmarked by foreign meditators, we share the following donation report of rice given to a Buddhist nunnery outside Mandalay. We thank all those who contributed to this aid, especially at a time when it is most urgently needed!
With hearts full of joy and a deep sense of reverence, we eagerly anticipated the opportunity to offer our support to a Buddhist nunnery the north-eastern urban area of Mandalay, knowing that our donation would bring immense merit and blessings to all involved.
Through the information from the exam-organizing associations, we knew that this nunnery sent 65 nuns to Yangon, Pa-auk and Bago. We contacted this nunnery through the head nun of Chan Mya Ramsī Nunnery and just roughly informed the nuns that we were donating alms-rice to their nunnery. When we transported the rice sacks there and unloaded 10 sacks of rice, the nuns surprisingly asked us if it was sure and it was not wrong.
We also had a kind of surprise and answered yes. Finally, the head nuns explained to us why they asked us like that. They said that they mostly received only 5 sacks of rice in maximum and they had never ever received more than five!
They were really happy and surprised because they were also organizing the township-wide nunnery examination in their nunnery in a few following days. The nunnery was founded and administrated by two head nuns in their 80s. The head nuns explained to us about the nunnery examinations and how hard it is for them to conduct though they made a strong resolution to organize it every year and in any kind of situation. They said that it was truly hard for the local donors now because the prices of rice and everything was rocketing. One of their assistant nuns went to the market and asked the price of rice the day before we went, because they wished to offer good quality of rice for the candidate nuns that would come from the whole township. Although they had some rice stored in the kitchen, it lost the quality and the grains were broken as they stored it some time aago. That’s why, they went to the market but sadly came back to the nunnery because of the rocketing price of rice.
The Head Nuns said that their volition for the exam candidate nuns was karmic for then and they were truly feeling gratitude to the international donors who could affordably support them 10 sacks of rice which they had never received this quantity since the time they founded the nunnery.
We extend our heartfelt thanks to the foreign meditators for making this offering possible, bringing joy and relief to the nuns during these challenging times.