SS Quah's Anything Goes

Re-reading Sally Hovey Wriggin's  The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang after coming back from Nepal and India last November felt a bit d...

Dateline: 25 November 2025. With Lumbini behind us, it was time to begin the long overland journey around northern India. After an early lu...

Dateline: 24 November 2025.  One activity that had never entered our reckoning when Nandaka Vihara was planning this pilgrimage to Nepal and...

Dateline: 23 & 24 November 2025.  Anyone who has followed my occasional ramblings on this blog may recall a piece I wrote last year, in...

Dateline: 21 & 22 November 2025.  The problem with most overseas travel is the unearthly hour at which one has to wake up, and our recen...

So finally, we’ve returned home from a 17-day jaunt through Nepal and northern India. It was a journey that carried us along the Buddhist pi...

Together with friends from the Nandaka Vihara, we shall be embarking on a Buddhist Trail to Nepal and India later this month, and I thought ...

After months of waiting and wondering, I finally hear that the Nandaka Vihara meditation society in Bukit Mertajam has decided to go ahead w...

For the first time during our Nepal trip, our Nandaka Vihara group was left to our own devices after lunch. Bhante Dhammasubho had decided t...