KMP at READ MALAYSIA Book Fair
Dear Rinpoche,
We just completed preliminary setup for our booth in Read Malaysia at The Mines.
Fang did the display and setup was with the help of Susan, Allan and myself. The door curtain design was Fang’s idea and we borrowed the Shakyamuni thangka from Li Kim.
David
The Book Fair will be held from 04 June 2010 to 13 June 2010, 11am to 10pm daily at The Mines.
I got this nice sms message from David…so I thought I’d blog it and ask everyone to go there to support Kechara Media & Publications (KMP). They deserve our support as they do wonderful work and they all work so hard.
KMP’s website- https://www.kechara.com/services/preserving-buddhism/ .
Thanks ahead of time for caring about our own centre and each department’s growth..
Tsem Rinpoche
More photos of the book fair:
Tsem Rinpoche’s book – Gurus for Hire (Chinese version).
Dear Rinpoche,
We’re now having supper at Ming Tien to say thank you to Allan, Gim Lee n her cousin who came to support today. Allan been working quite hard the last 10 days straight with no leave and did a lot to help us meet n exceed our daily sales target. He also has made many friends with other booth people. Thank you.
Love, Jamie Khoo
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There are many types of Fairs to promote your products. But Kechara Media Publications or KMP is always having book Fairs to promote Tsem Rinpoche’s Book and also to raise funds for more books to be published for the benefit of those who are scholarly inclined to the teachings of Buddhism. And at the same time visitors to the fair also can get their doubts solved or even learn more dharma. And is also the link to our Centre KH. KMP produces books that cost a lot and people might not buy as the price may be out of their budget. At a fair normally you have promotion for the same books at lower price.
It was tough work manning the booth from 11 am – 10pm daily for a whole week. We are lucky to have Allan to be there and be our presence at the Read Malaysia Book fair. It was a long weekend and the crowd was thin and not many seemed to be spiritually inclined. Allan with some push from a certain someone, went all out with friends and various contacts to get the sales going.
Allan, a seemingly laid-back, funloving and funny personality is particularly good with his networking skills. Networking as in connecting with people seemed to his favourite preoccupation. He has been in KMP for the last 3 months and have been performing pretty well and practicularly good at making connections. I am hoping to see Allan more in action and getting more involved as well all know Allan has got a big heart – perhaps even bigger than his corpulent figure.
KMP book fairs have come a long way. What Paris described was certainly correct. KMP’s first bookfair ever was in Singapore. The whole KMP team and volunteers went to Singapore to Sun City to parade our books and promote Kechara. We did not have any problem transporting our books to Singapore but upon our return from Singapore we had problems with the Custom however we manage to overcome it. In Singapore I met with an accident because the traffic lights were weird and different from the system in Malaysia. Oh no, I had to pay over SGD1000 to the owner of the car I had damaged. What was lucky I did not cause any physical damage on either side. The accident set me trembling afterwards. The whole process was hard work but was fun though.
Let’s be real honest – sometimes, it’s real hard work being at a book fair: nightmare customers that argue, stingey shoppers that don’t want to pay more than RM5 for a book, the crazy crowds, the noise, the long hours…
But it’s always very rewarding and very fun, knowing that are books are out there in the world and that everyone who is walking past our booth has the opportunity to connect with the incredible teachings in our books.
KMP has been doing roadshows for years, setting up our little booth and spending hours upon hours manning the stall, selling our books and more, importantly spending much time with the customers to tell them more about Dharma, Rinpoche, the message we are trying to promote and Kechara organisation as a whole.
Sometimes, people just don’t get it; or they come round just to pick a fight. This can be fun too for sharpening our debate skills, testing our own understanding of Dharma and learning that very important lesson of speaking skilfully and being patient (even with the most difficult customers!)
Then, sometimes, we also meet really interesting people who are sincerely looking for a spiritual path or some answers, and come talk to us to find out more about Dharma. That’s the most fun – talking to them about the preciousness of the teachings in the books and knowing in some way that, as they take a book home, little blessings of profound transformation, happiness and peace will start to pervade their lives.
We’re starting to plan for the next one already in the last quarter of the year – we’ll see you there? Come armed with your debate questions!
Hello Paris,
My hubby returned from visiting our son in KL on Monday 20 this week, armed with the book written by David Lai. I am still in the midst of reading it. My hubby wanted to get a copy of your book, too but he couldn’t get it at Times, Pavilion where our son works. He saw your book at MPH but wanted to give the business to Times where Louis works. What a coincidence that my daughter also attended York University, also did Literature and English! But she did her MA at SOAS, London and is now the Managing Editor with one of the publishing firm in London.
We are so-called, but I know very little about the in-depth teaching of Buddhism. So, when I read David’s book, I feel I can’t hold a candle to him. I pray to The Merciful Guanying Buddha, Goddess of Mercy. I know to live an honest life, be compassionate and helpful. Other than these, I know next to nothing about the chanting, etc in Buddhism.
I wish to learn, and if time permits, I would like to hear more from Kechara House.
May everyone in Kechara House have abudant blessings.
Daisy