Upcoming
Local Events
CBT holds annual
Obon event this Saturday July 17
The Cleveland
Buddhist Temple (CBT) will hold its traditional Obon celebration
this Saturday, July 17 on the Temple lawn. The Japanese American
Citizens League Icho Daiko will provide Taiko Drumming. A
food sale will begin at 5:00 pm. The dancing and drumming will begin
at 7:30 pm.
On Sunday, July
18, the CBT will hold a Memorial Service for those who died during
the months of July and August and the Hatsu-Bon service for those
who died during the past year. A period of meditation will begin
at 10:00 am, the service will start at 10:30 am and will be followed
by an Obon lunch. More info:
contact Peter Junger at (216) 721-9706.
Palyul OH spiritual
director gives three public talks July 21, 23 and 24
Palyul
Changchub Dargyeling, Ohio (Palyul OH) welcomes its spiritual
director, Khenpo Tsewang Gyatso Rinpoche this month. A week-long
retreat is already sold out. There are three public talks scheduled::
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Date,
Time, Location
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Event
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July
21, 7:30 pm, The Religious Society of Friends Meeting House
10916 Magnolia Drive, University Circle
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Empowerment;
Chokhor Duchen Event; Bestowal of the Rigdzin Dupa Empowerment;
Fee, contact Palyul at pcdo@palyulohio.org |
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July
23, 6:30 pm, Cleveland Museum of Art
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Public
talk: How to live a fearless life; free and open to the public |
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July
24, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Society of Friends Meeting House
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Heart
essence teachings from the Guru; Fee, contact Palyul at pcdo@palyulohio.org |
CloudWater
Zendo holds monthly Pure Land service July 21
CloudWater
Zendo will hold its monthly Pure Land Buddhist Service Wednesday,
July 21 at 7:00 pm. The service is open to all who would like to
learn about Pure Land Dharma.
Check out CloudWater's
busy calendar
of events for other upcoming classes and events.
Join CloudWater
for Cleveland Food Bank Service July 24
CloudWater
Zendo is sponsoring a community service opportunity at the Cleveland
Food Bank on Saturday, July 24 from 8:00 am to 12:00 pm. To sign
up, e-mail yingfa@cloudwater.org.
Jewel Heart
Cleveland holds Silent Auction beginning July 30
Jewel Heart
Cleveland will hold a Silent Auction beginning July 30. For more
information, contact cleveland@jewelheart.org.
Jewel Heart
welcomes Ven. Thubten Chodron July 31- August 1
Jewel Heart
Cleveland will host the founder of the Sravasti Abby located in
Newport, WA, Ven.
Thubten Chodron, July 31 and August 1.
On Saturday,
July 31, 7:30 pm, Ven. Chodron will speak on "Teaching Attachment
vs. Pure Love."
On Sunday, August
1, from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon and from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm, she
will speak on "Buddha Nature: Our Inner Pure Being." Suggested fee:
$30 for the full day; $15 per session.
For more information,
contact Anne Warren at 440/576-1190 or e-mail Cleveland@jewelheart.org..
CBT's fundraising
rummage sale will be July 31 and August 1
The Cleveland
Buddhist Temple (CBT) will hold its fundraising rummage sale
Saturday July 31 (9:00 am to 4:00 pm) and Sunday, August 1 (9:00
am to 2:00 pm).
CBT welcomes
shoppers and volunteers to help with this important fundraising
project. For more information, call Betty Ochi, 440/442-6133.
Taigen Dan
Leighton visits Cleveland August 12-15
Jijuyu-ji Zen
Group of Cleveland welcomes Taigen Dan Leighton August 12-15.
Taigen Leighton
founded the Mountain Source Sangha
meditation groups in California in 1994. He received Dharma Transmission
in 2000 from Reb Anderson, Roshi, former abbot and currently senior
Dharma teacher with San Francisco Zen Center.
On Thursday,
August 12 Taigen Leighton will join Jijuyu-ji at it's regular Thursday
evening sitting at the Cleveland Buddhist Temple.
On Friday, August
13, Taigen Leighton will give a public talk at the West Shore Unitarian
Church in Rocky River.
On Saturday,
August 14, Taigen will lead an all-day sesshin. On August 15, there
will be a half-day seminar on bodhisattva practices based in part
on his book Faces
of Compassion.
For more information,
e-mail Dean Williams.
Jewel Heart
Cleveland holds White Tara classes in August and September
Jewel
Heart Cleveland's Julie Thomas will lead four sessions on the
Healing Practice of White Tara from 1:30 to 3:30 pm on four Saturdays:
August 21, August 28, September 18 and September 25. The study materials
for this workshop will be The
Tara Box, by Gehlek Rinpoche with Barbara Rosen. The seminars
are free to Jewel Heart members; $40 for all four courses for nonmembers.
Thomas is a student of Prema
Dasara and a certified teacher of the Mandala Dance.
For more information
about Jewel Heart events, contact Anne Warren at 440/576-1190 or
aewarren@apk.net . Jewel
Heart Cleveland is located at 2670 W. 14th Street in the Tremont
neighborhood of Cleveland. Check out JH Cleveland's Web page by
click
On Saturday,
July 24, Thomas will lead the Mandala Dance of the 21 Praises of
Tara at 1:00 pm at the First
Unitarian Church of Youngstown, 1105 Elm Street. Suggested donation
is $5 for students and $10 for adults. For more information on this
event, e-mail jethomas@ysu.edu.
Local News
CBT invites
volunteers for Toban (temple cleaning) in July and August
The Cleveland
Buddhist Temple will hold Toban (temple cleaning) on Friday,
July 16 beginning at 9:00 am. In August there will be a major cleanup
on Saturday August 21 beginning at 9:00 am and (if needed) on Sunday,
August 22 beginning at 10:00 am. To volunteer or for more information,
contact Craig Horton, the resident temple coordinator at 216/287-9524.
Congratulations
to CloudWater's Shramanera Patricia Sadar on her ordination
On July 10,
CloudWater Zendo
held an ordination ceremony for Shramanera Patricia Sadar (Shih
Ming-Xing). The Traditional Rite of Tonsure was conducted by Ven.
Shih Ying-Fa, Abbot of CloudWater Zendo and Ven. Shih Shen-Lung,
Abbot of the Dragon Flower Ch'an Temple of St. Louis, MO. Sadar
took the "250 Vows of the Fully Ordained." CloudWater Zendo is located
at 14436 Puritas Ave. on Cleveland's West Side.
Regional
News
Udumbara Zen
Center (Chicago) holds rural retreat July 30 to August 1
Udumbara
Zen Center (Evanston, IL near Chicago) will hold a three-day
sesshin at its new
rural facility in Ottawa, IL July 30 to August 1.
The retreat
will be lead by Udumbara's Sojun
Diane Martin, a student of Dainen
Katagiri Roshi of the Minnesota Zen Center and Yvonne
Rand. For information on the retreat and possible car pooling
from Cleveland, contact Dean
Williams.
Jewel Heart
holds autumn retreat September 3-6 in Garrison, NY
Jewel
Heart Ann Arbor will hold its Autumn Retreat 2004 on Labor Day
weekend in Garrison, NY. Spiritual leader Gehlek
Rinpoche will lead the retreat on "Infinite Heart: Dissolving
the Barriers to a Radically Compassionate Life." More details of
the program will be announced soon on the Jewel Heart Web site.
Eastern Buddhist
League Conference will be in Minneapolis over Labor Day Weekend
The Twin Cities
Buddhist Association will host the 2004
Eastern Buddhist League Conference (Pure Land or Jodo Shinshu)
in Minneaplis, MN September 3-5 with the theme "Expressions of Buddhism."
Sessions include:
- Panel: Changing
Faces of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism: Rev. Kodani, Bishop Ogui, Dr.
Unno, Moderator Ð Rev. Miyamura
- Buddhism
in the Healing Professions: Wayne Takeshita, Clarice and Grant
Chikazawa Nelson
- Rituals and
Symbols/Japanese American Buddhist Taiko: Rev. Masao Kodani
The complete
conference schedule, a registration form and hotel information are
available on the Web site.
National
News
Dalai Lama
will visit Florida and Puerto Rico in September
His Holiness
the Dalai Lama will visit Miami from September 19-22.
Osel
Dorje Ningpo - USA is hosting His Holiness' public events on
September 19, 20 and 21st. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.
Details of the program are available on the Web site.
His Holiness'
visit to the University of Miami on September 22 is part of the
university's lecture series called "Celebrating American Democracy
and Diversity." Visit the UM
Dalai Lama page for details. The university will also confer
on him an honorary doctorate of humane letters. This event is invitation-only
for UM faculty, staff and students.
His Holiness will
visit and teach in Puerto Rico September 23-25.
However, earlier
this month, His Holiness sat out his birthday celebrations on the
advice of his doctors. Press reports say he developed a cough and
is suffering from exhaustion due to his intense travel schedule.
Related stories:
"Exhausted
Dalai Lama sits out his 69th birthday bash," AFP, July 6, 2004.
"Dalai
Lama's speech moves to larger venue in Sunrise from UM," Florida
Sun-Sentinel, July 2, 2004.
International
News
Northern Indian
state confirms plans for the world's largest statue of Maitreya
Buddha
Officials in
Uttar Pradesh,
India recently confirmed plans to build a 492-foot-tall statue
of Maitreya Buddha in Kushinagar that will be three times higher
than the Statue of Liberty. The base of the statue will hold a 17-story
temple building.
The project
will be supported by the Maitreya
Project Trust based in Gorakhpur, India with the assistance
of the government of Uttar Pradesh and an unnamed Japanese group.
No date for a groundbreaking was announced.
For more details
and a computer-generated image of the proposed statue, see "India
to build biggest Buddha," BBC, July 13, 2004.
Editorial:
Appreciation to the organizers of "The Buddha Project"
I would like
to extend my sincere thanks to the organizers of "The
Buddha Project" which took place in many places and many
guises during May, June and July.
This excellent
collaboration included demonstrations and presentations by nearly
all the active Buddhist groups in the region. My personal favorite
was the June 16th talk by John Daido Loori, Roshi which was attended
by well over 50 people.
Co-curator Jeanne
Rossetti tells me she is seeking a publisher to produce a record
of the project, including quality reproductions of the world-class
art work displayed in the many galleries that participated. I hope
she is successful.
The Buddha Project
was curated by Jeanne Grossetti and Robert Thurmer.
Co-sponsored by Cleveland State University’s Center for Sacred
Landmarks
Project partners included: Arts Collinwood, The Cleveland Buddhist
Temple, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Shambhala Meditation
Group, Cleveland Zazen Group, CloudWater Zendo, Gallery U, Insight
Meditation of Cleveland, Jewel Heart Cleveland, Jijuyu-ji Zen Group
of Cleveland, Performers and Artists for Nuclear Disarmament, Thrive:
An Artspace, and West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church.
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