Welcome to everyone here, particularly those who have come from interstate, and thank you for coming. It has been a great honour to be the foundation President of Sakyadhita Australia in its first year. It is a marvellous project to bring together Buddhist women of different backgrounds who practice in different traditions and who live in different states with the common cause of promoting the Dharma in Australia. There is much to do. If you look at how we have met our Aims a