22/08/2021
THE OLD BOY FROM CANTERBURY UNIVERSITY’S RETURN……Venerable Wei Wu of Malaysia visited our retreat center just before the COVID pandemic lockdown in New Zealand last year.He obtained his electrical engineer degree from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1973 . And it was while he was studying there he discovered the precious teachings of Buddhism.
For 19 years after his graduation from New Zealand he worked tirelessly as an engineer, TQM manager and consultant in New Zealand, Malaysia,Asia , the United State and Europe. Later he became a monk at the age of 43 and founded the Than Hsiang Temple, a leading Mahayana organisation with various branches all over the states of Malaysia and he was the founder of the Buddhist University in southern Thailand, “THE IBC “. The Khyentse Foundation and Dzongsar Khenste Rinpoche honoured him as the2020 Khyentse Fellow, the highest Khyentse Foundation award to an individual, in recognition of his immeasurable and outstanding contribution to the promotion of Buddhadharma and Buddhist education over the past decades. He was the Mahayana master of our retreat master,Drupon Kunchok Yeshe. Milarepa Center, the pure land within the PURELAND,NZ........DRIKUNG KAGYU BOLEH !
