{"id":51,"date":"2009-05-29T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/2009\/05\/29\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:46:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:46:35","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/2009\/05\/29\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal<\/w:View> <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning \/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas \/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false<\/w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false<\/w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false<\/w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables \/> <w:SnapToGridInCell \/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct \/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules \/> <w:DontGrowAutofit \/> <\/w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument> <\/xml><![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState=\"false\" LatentStyleCount=\"156\"> <\/w:LatentStyles> <\/xml><![endif]--><!-- [if !mso]><span class=\"mceItemObject\"   classid=\"clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D\" id=ieooui><\/span> <![endif]--> <!--  \/* Style Definitions *\/  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal \t{mso-style-parent:\"\"; \tmargin:0in; \tmargin-bottom:.0001pt; \tmso-pagination:widow-orphan; \tfont-size:12.0pt; \tfont-family:\"Times New Roman\"; \tmso-fareast-font-family:\"Times New Roman\";} @page Section1 \t{size:8.5in 11.0in; \tmargin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; \tmso-header-margin:.5in; \tmso-footer-margin:.5in; \tmso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 \t{page:Section1;} --> <!-- [if gte mso 10]> <![endif]--><\/p>\n<table style=\"text-align: left; width: 710px; height: 391px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<tr style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4955-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1321\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4955-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4955-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4955-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4955-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4955-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/IMG_4955-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>MBMS\/Ashin Kelatha Vihara<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"moduletable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><span class=\"search\" style=\"font-family: courier new,courier;\">The Myanmar Buddhist Meditation Society was founded in 1992 by the late Venerable Sayadaw Ashin Kelatha.&nbsp; The association&nbsp; is registered as a non- profit organization under the IRS Code Section 501 (c) (3). The Society purchased the present property situated at 9711 Old Court Road, Windsor Mill, Baltimore County, State of Maryland in March 1997 and named it the Ashin Kelatha Vihara. The property consisted of a single residential dwelling and 6.6 acres of land.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBMS\/Ashin Kelatha Vihara The Myanmar Buddhist Meditation Society was founded in 1992 by the late Venerable Sayadaw Ashin Kelatha.&nbsp; The association&nbsp; is registered as a non- profit organization under the IRS Code Section 501 (c) (3). The Society purchased the present property situated at 9711 Old Court Road, Windsor Mill, Baltimore County, State of Maryland &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/2009\/05\/29\/about-us\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-mbms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1322,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/1322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kelathavihara.org\/kv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}