Chan Academy Australia, President’s Annual Report 2002

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Chan Academy is a registered trading name of
Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.
A.C.N. 005 701 806 A.B.N. 42 611 496 488

33 Brooking St, Upwey, Victoria 3158, Australia
Telephone / Facsimile: +613 9754 3334
Email: wbu@bdcu.org.au Website: www.bdcu.org.au

World Fellowship of Buddhists Regional Centre
Associated Institution of the World Fellowship of Buddhists
Member Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria

Work Paper No. 2003-1

President’s Annual Report 2002 – 2003

By Julian Bamford, BA App Rec
Published 9 August 2003

We intend our Buddha Dhamma Centre the Chan Academy Australia to last for five hundred years or more.

This is the 25th year since our Centre’s inception by our Founder Chan Master Dr. John D. Hughes Dip App. Chem T.T.T.C GDAIE.

In March of 2003 our Teacher became seriously ill and was hospitalised. After 12 weeks with the loving care of his wife Anita M. Hughes and the blessings and help of many beings he returned home. Anita continues to provide full-time care at home for John D. Hughes. He is recovering steadily, aided by the daily visits of various health professionals, including a physiotherapist and a speech therapist.

A special Dharma Ceremony is to be run on 31 August 2003 at Master' Ru Sun’s Yun Yang Temple for John's good health. Our Members will help with preparation the day before and participate in the ceremony and chanting.

We wish John and Anita good health and life increasing.

We are planning for John D. Hughes Birthday 9 September 2003, and requests for accolades have been sent to many persons in Australia and around the world to be included in a special publication ‘John D. Hughes Celebration of a Life

Members are committed to chanting three times each day for the long life and good health increasing of our Teacher.

Members are increasing the making of regular offerings to the various Devas and Devatas who help our Teacher John D.Hughes, Anita and our organisation.

We dedicate this President’s Annual Report 2002 – 2003 to the devas and devatas the request that they continue their advice and help in the future.

May the merit of this Presidents Annual Report 2002 – 2003 be dedicated to the long life and increasing health of both John D Hughes and Anita M Hughes.

May they be well and happy.

This report assumes the reader is familiar with the objects for which our Centre is established. They are:

(a) To introduce a philosophy of life based on the teachings of Buddha Dharma.

(b) To encourage the study, practice and realisation of Buddha Dharma.

(c) To promote activities associated with Buddhism and Buddhist Culture in Australia and overseas.

(d) To investigate unexplained laws of Nature and the powers latent in man.

(e) To promote and maintain direct or auxiliary activities for educational, social, charitable, philanthropic, benevolent and humanitarian work.

(f) To build, construct, maintain and alter any buildings or works in accordance with the requirements of the Centre.

We welcome our new Executive Members and our new staff. (See Appendix 1)

We welcome our Temple’s new Abbott Lisa Nelson and Assistant Abbott's (See Appendix 1)

Adhidhamma Teachings for Nine Years

This year we completed the 1st year of nine years of Abhidhamma teachings.

Our Abhidhamma teaching program is guided by our new Director of Abhidhamma Teachings Evelin Halls Dip. F.L.C. Assistants of Abhidhamma Teachings are Pennie White and Leanne Eames, who help create the weekly class notes. We now have 59 weeks of Abhidhamma Class notes online.

Changing our Culture to S5

We are resource rich and intend to stay that way.

We are a devamanussaman Temple. In our supply chain at present are millions of devas and devatas. Every change we make brings new resources. That is why we change.

We are moving to S5 Management, and six of our Members are participating in a 7-week Performance Management Training Program.

Our Members continue to develop a broad view of what our core business is. Our core business is in the loka field. Meditation is not core business.

Every Member should help to raise funds for our core business.

Temples are essential for persons to learn and practice Buddha Dhamma. Buddha Dhamma is taught at Temples and it is the task of Teachers and Students to organise plans to look after the core business and carry them out, to maintain the standards required and be fully aware of those, and to raise funds.

We will keep having a good Return On Investment (ROI). New buildings and upgrades will continue to be well planned and debt-free.

The Temple's core business is every Member's business.

Occupational Health and Safety and our Duty of Care

As a legally constituted company our Centre holds a duty of care to our Members and those who we welcome to our Temple to make safety a priority.

We promote through our Occupational Health & Safety Bulletins, the Brooking Street Bugle, project plans, special notices, records of injury, Annual Essential Services Reports and paying attention to safety-related matters.

This Occupational Health and Safety awareness applies to both onsite and offsite activities and projects such as the Flower Stalls and weekly Camberwell Market.

How do we preserve Occupational Health and Safety. We sell it in many ways. For example we shall be publishing a regular Occupational Health and Safety Bulletin commencing in August 2003.

We keep up to date with changes in Occupational Health & Safety legislation affecting our organisation.

Commencing with the August 2003 General Meeting the General Meeting Agenda shall include an Occupational Health and Safety Report.

Does Occupational Health and Safety change? How fast does this occur?

If through negligence an organisation was too cause food poisoning to some of its members what would they do?

The goal is to develop an update of current practice at our Centre including Occupational Health and Safety.

Our Greatest Achievements this Year

Some of our greatest achievements this year include:

1.Caring for our Teacher during his illness and his ongoing rehabilitation and providing support to his wife and carer Anita

2.We commenced the Feed a Buddhist program

3.Our five websites recorded over 14,000 visits, since we started counting visits.

4.Our Teacher reached the milestone of 240 consecutive weeks writing and producing the Buddhist Hour Broadcast

5.Completed the first of nine years Abhidhamma classes

6.Paid for and built a private on-suite bathroom paid for our Resident Practitioners

7.Excavated site and built the substructure for the new kitchen and dining hall

8.Online publishing achievement of 300 documents and 3000 colour photographs, scans of rare artworks on our 5 websites

9.We raised $11,000 from the weekly Camberwell Market

10.Six Members attended the World Fellowship of Buddhists 22nd Biannual Conference held in Selangor Malaysia

11.Exhibition and Auction of Paintings by John D. Hughes, presented by John D. Hughes and Associates Pty Ltd and the Chan Academy Australia.

12.Chan Academy Australia Sumi-e Program: The Ten Chan Masters in 2002 and Seven Factors of Enlightenment in 2003 taught by visiting Master Andre Sollier

13.We have published 89 Issues of the Brooking Street Bugle in print and online at www.bsbonline.com.au

Mini Projects Report 2002 – 2003

During 2002 – 2003 we successfully managed over 318 Mini Projects onsite and offsite. (see appendix 2)

Our Goals for 2003 - 2004

Some of our goals for this year will be to complete the new private dining room.

Continue to publish Buddha Dhamma online on our five websites for our global audience.

We will increase our Fundraising initiatives including the preparing and bottling of blessed water for commercial sale as a major fundraising project

Our Abhidhamma study Students will increase offerings through Abhidhamma printing and download key photographs from our website at their own expense and distribute them to others as Dana.

This will provide a sound basis for future access to such photographs for the next nine years. This is one factor Students need to work towards continuity of attendance at Abhidhamma classes.

We will work for more International Members to join our Centre.

Our Members will actively prospect to attract new person to support and join our Temple.

Annual Member Orientation Program

An Annual Member Orientation Program will continue during 2003-2004.

The program will orientate Members on changes that effect the running of our Temple. It shall include but not be limited to:

The orientation program will be for all Members. It will be introduced with a regular Bulletin, with the first to be published during September 2003 Five Day Course.

Appendix 1

Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.
ACN 005 701 806 ABN 42 611 496 488
33 Brooking Street, Upwey 3158 Victoria Australia
Telephone/facsimile: +61 (03) 9754 3334
web site: www.bdcu.org.au
email: wbu@bdcu.org.au

COMPANY STRUCTURE

The Company operates under the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Company Code in accordance with our Articles of Association and Memorandum of Association.

Resident Practitioners

John D. Hughes Dip. App. Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE
Anita Hughes R.N.Div1

Abbot

Lisa Nelson Cert.3. Bus. Admin.

Assistant Abbot

John D. Hughes Dip. App. Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE
Julie O'Donnell
Evelin Halls Dip. F.L.C.
Peter Boswell C.P.A.

Director of Abhidhamma Teachings
Evelin Halls Dip. F.L.C.

Assistant of Abhidhamma Teachings
Leanne Eames B.A. M.A.
Pennie White B.A.Dip.Ed.

Directors of the Centre
Lisa Nelson Cert.3 Business Administration
Evelin Halls Dip. Foreign Language Correspondence
Peter Boswell CPA

Office Bearers
President Julian Bamford B.A. App. Rec.
Secretary Pennie White B.A.Dip.Ed.
Treasurer Peter Boswell CPA

Assistant Treasurer
Frank Carter B.Ec.
David Igracki
Pam Adkins

Vice Presidents
International Dhamma Activities Pennie White B.A.Dip.Ed.
Corporate Governance & Reporting Evelin Halls Dip.F.L.C.
Local Area Planning & Asset Management Frank Carter B.Ec.

The Directors, Office Bearers and Vice Presidents are responsible to a General Committee comprising all financial Members of the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd.

Chief Information Officer Leanne Eames B.A. M.A.

Financial Controller Peter Boswell C.P.A.

Manager Occupational Health & Safety Anita Hughes R.N.Div1
Frank Carter B.Ec.

Manager Enterprise Technology Evelin Halls Dip.F.L.C.
IT Technical Support Kamfatt Lin B.Sc (Eng),
MCP, CNA, MCSE, MCDBA

IT Development Engineer John Watson
Editor Buddha Dhyana Dana Review John D. Hughes Dip. App.
Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE

Assistant Editor Buddha Dhyana Dana Review
Pennie White B.A. Dip. Ed.
Julian Bamford B.A. App. Rec.
Evelin Halls Dip. F.L.C.

Executive Producer Buddhist Hour Broadcast
Pennie White B.A. Dip. Ed.
Producer Buddhist Hour Broadcast Pennie White B.A. Dip. Ed.

Assistant Producer Buddhist Hour Broadcast
Leanne Eames B.A. M.A.
Lainie Smallwood
Peter Boswell C.P.A.
Julian Bamford B.A. App. Rec.
Evelin Halls Dip. F.L.C.

Editor Brooking Street Bugle John D. Hughes Dip. App.
Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE

Assistant Editor Brooking Street Bugle Leanne Eeams B.A. M.A.
David Ley

Editors Longhair Australia News John D. Hughes Dip. App.
Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE

Julian Bamford B.A. App.
Rec.
Leanne Eames B.A. M.A.
Evelin Halls Dip.F.L.C.
Pennie White B.A. Dip. Ed.

Joint Librarians John D. Hughes Dip. App.
Chem. T.T.T.C. GDAIE
Anita Hughes R.N.Div1

Assistant Librarian Julie O'Donnell

Appendix 2

Minor Projects Report (No.2) 2002 - 2003

Minor Project No.193
Fire Wood – collection

Minor Project No. 194
Chan Painting Raffle Ticket Details
Completed: 14 August 2002

Minor Project No.195
Founder’s Day
Completed: 9 September 2002

Minor Project No.196
"Canvassing The Four Seasons" Chan Painting Exhibition and Auction
Completed: 9 September 2002

Minor Project No. 197
Surangama Puja taught by Francisco So
Completed: 5 November 2002

Minor Project No. 198
Circumambulation track around the Stupa
Completed: 3 September 2002

Minor Project No. 199
Camberwell Market Stall – 10 weeks in operation

Minor Project No.200
New Dining Room and kitchen
Completed: 28 September 2002

Minor Project No.201
Philip Island Visit
11 September 2002

Minor Project No.202
Uninterruptable Power Supply
Completed: 30 July 2002

Minor Project No.203
LAN 2 back on line

Minor Project No.204
Discontinued website addresses

Minor Project No.205
Photographs Brooking Street Bugle 80

Minor Project No.206
Sensor light outside Suite 10A

Minor Project No.207
Information from Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC)
10 September 2002

Minor Project No.208
Rock from Western Australia
Completed: 28 September

Minor Project No. 209
Typing of History of Pureland Buddhism and loading
of chapters onto www.bddronline.net.au

Minor Project No.210
Most Venerable Phra Acharn Mun Bhuridatta Thera
biography loaded to www.bddronline.net.au

Minor Project No.211
Surangama Puja taught by Francisco So
Completed: 5 November 2002

Minor Project No.212
Ordination of 400,000 Heavenly Monks
Completed: 26 October 2002

Minor Project No.213
Kathina Ceremony at Sakyamuni Buddha Vihara, Berwick
Completed: 26 October 2002

Minor Project No.214
New sponsor for website www.bdcu.org.au

Minor Project No.215
New Sponsor for our www.bdcublessings.net.au website

Minor Project No.216
Upgrade of extra 100 megabyte capacity
for www.bdcublessings.net.au website

Minor Project No.217
New PC 15A

Minor Project No.218
Upgrade to PC5A

Minor Project No.219
Kodak Picture Easy Software on PC15A

Minor Project No.220
Digital camera pictures storage

Minor Project No.221
Buddhist Hour Broadcast recordings sent to Venerable Tang

Minor Project No.222
National Day of the Republic of China

Minor Project No.223
Most Venerable Phra Acharn Mun Bhuridatta Thera biography
– update for website

Minor Project No.224
Kathina Ceremony at Sakyamuni Buddha Vihara, Berwick

Minor Project No.225
Chan Academy Australia: Sumi-e Class

Minor Project No.226
New Kitchen and Dining Room – 10 more stump holes
Completed: 5 October 2002

Minor Project No.227
Offerings to Heavenly Sangha
Completed: 1 November 2002

Minor Project No.228
Fitting of ant caps on existing stumps – reading room floor

Minor Project No.229
Abhidhamma Teachings - Suitable offerings for the
Abhidhamma Teachings including flowers and reams of A4 paper.

Minor Project No.230
Prajna Paramita Puja
Completed: 26 December 2002

Minor Project No.231
Most recent raffle results – Spring Garden Raffle

Completed: 26th November 2002
Minor Project No.232
Camberwell market stall
Completed: 24 November 2002

Minor Project No.233
Public liability Insurance - increased in cover
Completed: 12 December 2002.

Minor Project No.234
Required Buddhist Hour broadcast attendance on 8 December 2002

Minor Project No.235
Fire Risk Reduction

Minor Project No.236
Front Entrance floor reconstruction

Minor Project No.237
Completion of stumping for front entrance

Minor Project No.238
New plants for garden

Minor Project No.239
New Year Greeting Cards

Minor Project No.240
Christmas Day Gift and Flower Stall

Minor Project No.241
President’s Minor Projects 2002 Report

Minor Project No.242
Prajna Paramita Puja
Completed: 1 January 2003

Minor Project No.243
2.4 New Years Bell Puja

Minor Project No.244
Kala Chakra Puja
Completed: 27th January

Minor Project No.245
Heavenly Monks Ordination Certificates
Minor Project No.246
Buddha Dhamma Chanting in Pali and English

Minor Project No.247
Temporary storage for Market Stall Goods

Minor Project No.248
New Discount available with Upwey Garden Supplies

Minor Project No.249
Adopt a stump

Minor Project No.250
Fire Risk Reduction in Heavenly Chan garden.
Minor Project No.251
Nomination for Victorian Senior of the Year

Minor Project No.252
The Anita Garden

Minor Project No.253
Flower Garden by the Stupa and Reclining Buddha

Minor Project No.254
New Garden created by the Apple Tree

Minor Project No.255
Last stump hole for the New Dining Room
Completed: 10 January 2003

Minor Project No.256
New Private Dining Hall - Extension of Australia Garden
Completed: 27 January 2003

Minor Project No.257
Northern retaining wall for the new dining hall
Completed: 27 January 2003.

Minor Project No.258
New Private Dining Hall - Partial completion
of Southern retaining wall
Minor Project No.259
New Private Dining Hall - Completion
of Eastern Retaining wall
Completed: on 31 January

Minor Project No.260
New Kitchen Dining Room Construction
Commenced: 9 February at 9.00am.
Minor Project No.261
Longhair Australian News Volume 2 published
Completed: 4 February 2003.

Minor Project No.262
Buddhist Hour No.262. commenced sixth year of broadcasting
the Buddhist hour
Completed: 9 February 2003

Minor Project No.263 Removal of Rubbish and Cuttings to Tip
Completed: 5 February 2003
Minor Project No.264
60 New plants for garden
Minor Project No.265
Summer Garden Raffle Tickets On Sale

Minor Project No.266
His Holiness Sakya Trizin Visit to Melbourne

Minor Project No.267
Captions for World Fellowship of Buddhist Conference
photos on BDDR Online Vol. 12 No. 8.

Minor Project No.268
VET Version 10.54 update

Minor Project No.269
Medicine Buddha Pujas

Minor Project No.270
Hevajra Puja
Completed: 18 April 2003

Minor Project No.271
Buddhist Hour Tapes to CD-ROM conversion

Minor Project No.272
Report on current issues with the IT systems
of the Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey)Ltd.
Completed: 12 March 2003

Minor Project No.273
Chan Academy Australia Summer Raffle
Completed: 4 March 2003

Minor Project No.276
Report on Sogyal Rinpoche Talk
online www.bdcublessing.net.au
Minor Project No.277
Cherry Tree Retirement Village Buddha Dhamma Talk
Minor Project No.278
Melbourne University Buddhist Society Visit

Minor Project No.279
Buddha Dhamma Symposium
Completed: 22nd February 2003

Minor Project No.280
Suite 10A Conversion for use as Treasurer Office

Minor Project No.281
Planning for Construction of New Fence along Southern Boundary
Minor Project No.282
Vajrasattva Puja
Completed: 9 June 2003

Minor Project No.283
Venerable Dhammavihari's visit
Completed: Friday 18 April

Minor Project No. 284
Five Day Bhavana Course

Minor Project No.285
Kalyanamitta Awards

Minor Project No.286
Devas of Dictionaries Altars

Minor Project No.287
Chan Academy Australia Brochures

Minor Project No.288
The Way of the Garden 2003 - Garden Roster

Minor Project No.289
Ch'an Academy Garden Task List Minor Project No.290
Medicine Buddha Practice for preparing blessed water

Minor Project No.291
Offering the blessed water at the Maroondah Hospital

Minor Project No.292
Sangha Blessings and visits to the Maroondah Hospital

Minor Project No.293
Photographs of Venerable Dhammavihari Online

Minor Project No.294
Photographs of Master Ru Sun Online

Minor Project No.295
Connection of library computers to laser printers

Minor Project No.296
Systems Maintenance Program Report
Completed: 30 May 2003.

Minor Project No.297
Replacement Fax Machine Operating

Minor Project No.298
Chan Academy Australia 7 Day Project List

Minor Project No.299
Versak 2546 B.E greetings sent
Completed: On 14 May 2003

Minor Project No.300
Visit to New Gippsland Buddhist Discussion Group
Completed: 27 May 2003

Minor Project No.301
Sri Lankan Friends
Completed: 18 April 2003

Minor Project No3 302
Pureland Buddha Dhamma on Buddha Dhyana Review Online

Minor Project No.304
Preparations for New Private Bathroom
Completed: 31 March 2003

Minor Project No.305
Easter Sunday Flower Stall at Lilydale
Minor Project No.306.
New Private Bathroom Tiling

Minor Project No.307
New Private Bathroom completed

Minor Project No.308
Visit by Venerable Dhammadaro and Venerable Dhammarakito
Completed: 22 June 2003

Minor Project No.309
Venerable Nguyen Tang's Blessings for John D. Hughes

Minor Project No.310
Adopt a Garden Bed

Minor Project No.311
Buddha Dhyana Dana Review Online printing for our
John D. Hughes Collection library.

Minor Project No.312
2003 Winter Chan Academy Raffle
Completed: 24 June 2003

Minor Project No.313
Longhair Australia News Vol. 2 No. 2 published.

Minor Project No.314
LAN 1 and LAN2

Minor Project No.315
PC1A and PC14A reconnected to LAN2
Completed: 24 June 2003

Minor Project No.316
Website hosting fees bdcublessings.net.au
and bddronline.net.au
Completed: 30 June 2003.

Minor Project No.317
Domain name renewal for bddronline.net.au
and bdcublessings.net.au
Completed: 3 June 2003.

Minor Project No.318
Garden News - Clean up of compost heap.

For details on each of the Minor Projects detailed in this report
please use the site search engine at
www.bsbonline.com.au .

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