About BuddhistSpace.com
BuddhistSpace.com is a web 2.0 online memorial website. It is an alternative to the traditionally expensive ancestral tablets for Buddhists to remember their departed loved ones. Memorial builders can sign up for free and enjoy top 20 features of building their death notice or online free memorials, including online family trees and memorial videos, whereas memorial visitors can share their prayers, dedicate their condolences and merits to those departed who have touch their hearts. Founded in 2008 by Malaysian Buddhist Co-operative Society (MBCS) volunteers, BuddhistSpace complements the current Buddhist funeral services offering to remind Malaysians about the importance of celebrating death in an affordable, simple and dignified manner in Malaysia.
About BuddhistSpace.com Facebook Cyber Club
The purpose of BuddhistSpace.com Facebook Cyber Club is to allow living Buddhists around the world to:
- alert MBCS whenever you heard or experience any emergency death cases within your social circles
- contact MBCS for funeral chanting or prayer support
- discuss opportunities with MBCS to serve the virtual or offline Buddhist community more effectively
About Malaysian Buddhist Co-operative Society (MBCS)
MBCS is a government-related co-operative agency that aims to:
1. Provide Buddhist community with volunteer outreach program & public funeral education support related to issue on illness & bereavement.
2. Provide Buddhist community with a one stop Buddhist funeral related service
3. Provide MBCS members with various Co-op Enterprise Interest & Patronage Rebate. For example, its popular preplan death insurance.
The Future
Buddhistspace.com and MBCS hope to exercise collective effort with other related organizations to improve the public image of Malaysian Chinese’s funeral industry through professional bereavement care education, training and service for Malaysians, with a special focus on the Chinese community. MBCS will take proactive initiatives to:
a. provide bereavement education like preplan funeral advice to Chinese families
b. work together with Malaysian universities to focus on internship for bereavement care trainees and researchers, and to conduct R&D projects in order to enhance the public image of the Malaysian funeral industry
c. work together with hospice care centers, hospitals and NGOs to standardize professional bereavement care training and certification programs (eg. palliative care, bereavement consulting. grief counseling) for hospice care workers, nurses, social workers, volunteers and unemployed individuals
d. work together with Kuching Buddhist Society to create a one-stop funeral service center in Malaysia
e. work with Co-operative College of Malaysia (Maktab Kerjasama Malaysia) to carry out the bereavement care training and certification operations
f. work together with other international co-operatives like UK Co-operative Funeral Care to exchange international best practices on our bereavement care training and certification programs
MBCS hope to improve the social and economic status of these families through right livelihood practices. Moreover, we hope to build greater community awareness by educating Malaysians on the importance of celebrating death in a simple, solemn and dignified way.
‘There is no greater gift of charity you can give than helping a person to die well’
from Sogyul Rinpoche, “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying”.
BuddhistSpace CEO,
Alwin Aw
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