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Northeast
Ohio Sangham
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An
E-Newsletter for the Buddhist community in and around Northeast
Ohio
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Vol.
3, Issue 3, July 28, 2005
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Quick
Scan - This Month's Headlines
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Upcoming
Local Events
- CBT's
Rummage Sale starts Saturday, July 30 at 9:00 am
- Jewel
Heart's Gehlek Rimpoche visits Cleveland August 20 and 21
- Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group holds all-day sitting on Saturday, August 20
Local
News
- NEO
Soto Zen Group changes weekly sitting location and time
- Cleveland
Shambhala holds information series in August
- CloudWater
Zendo announces summer break beginning August 19
- Buddhist
Peace Fellowship recognizes new Cleveland Chapter
Regional
News
- Chicago's
Ancient Dragon Zen Gate welcomes Taigen Dan Leighton August
26-28
- Tibetan
relics on view in Columbus September 9-11
- Noted
Zen teacher and scholar Shohaku Okumura visits Pittsburgh
in November; Cleveland in April
National
News
- Japanese
Buddhist monks carry Hiroshima flame to the birthplace of
the atomic bomb
- Dalai
Lama will tour U.S. in September and November
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Local
Events
CBT's
Rummage Sale starts Saturday, July 30 at 9:00 am
The
Cleveland
Buddhist Temple's (CBT) annual Rummage Sale fund raiser
begins Saturday, July 30 at 9:00 am until 4:00 pm; and again
Sunday, July 31, 9:00 am to 2:00 pm. At the same time there
will be a bake sale and free coffee.
On Sunday,
August 21 at 10:00 am CBT will hold a full-day toban (temple
cleaning) of its historic building. Everyone is invited
to volunteer to help CBT members as a form of meditation
practice. To volunteer or to obtain further information,
please phone Craig Horton, the Resident Temple Coordinator,
at 216/287-9524.
The
Cleveland Buddhist Temple is located at 1573 E. 214th St.
(corner of E. 214th St. and Euclid Ave.), Euclid, OH (Directions).
For more information, contact Peter
Junger.
Jewel
Heart's Gehlek Rimpoche visits Cleveland August 20 and 21
Jewel
Heart Cleveland welcomes its spiritual leader, Gehlek
Rimpoche, for two full-day events on Saturday, August 20
and Sunday August 21, from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm and again
from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm each day. Rimpoche will speak on
the Eight
Verses for Training the Mind, written by Kdampa Master
Langri Thangpa. These verses describe methods for generating
great compassion and Bodhimind, the altruistic intention
to attain enlightenment in order to help others. Suggested
free will donation is $40 for the weekend.
Jewel
Heart Cleveland is located at 2670 W14th Street in the Tremont
neighborhood. For more information, call 216/687-1617 or
e-mail Cleveland@jewelheart.org.
Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group holds all-day sitting on Saturday, August 20
The
Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group will hold an all day sitting at the Cleveland
Buddhist Temple on Saturday, August 20. The guest speaker
will be Tricia Teater, a priest from the Udumbara Zen Center
in Chicago. The Cleveland Buddhist Temple is located at
1573 E. 214th St. (corner of E. 214th St. and Euclid Ave.),
Euclid, OH (Directions).
On Saturday,
August 21, Jijuyu-ji's Dean Williams will speak at the morning
service of the Unitarian
Universalist Congregation of Canton.
Local
News
NEO
Soto Zen Group changes weekly sitting location and time
The
Northeast
Ohio Soto Zen Group recently changed its regular weekly
sitting time and location. The group noaw meets Wednesday
evenings at 7:00 pm at Evolution Yoga in Beachwood. The
group will meet at 7:00 pm for set up and instruction meditation
for new comers. A 20-minute sitting meditation period will
begin at 7:15 followed by 10 minutes of walking meditation.
The final 20-minute period will begin at 7:45. The sitting
will end at 8:05 with a short dedication chant. Evolution
Yoga is located at 3737 Park East Drive in Beachwood.
In November,
the group will welcome it's teacher, Reb
Anderson Tenshin Roshi, of the San Francisco Zen Center,
for a three-day weekend event. The visit will include a
public talk on Friday, November 11; and all-day sittings
on Saturday and Sunday, November 12 and 13. For information
on location and fee, contact Jennifer
McMullen.
Cleveland
Shambhala holds information series in August
Cleveland
Shambhala announced a series of four classes called
"Everything you always wanted to know about Shambhala but
were afraid to ask." The series is designed to introduce
students to the basic history, forms and practices of Shambhala
Buddhism. The classes will be Tuesdays, August 9, August
16, August 23 and August 30. CSMG meets at the Tyler Building,
3615 Superior Ave. near downtown Cleveland (Directions).
For more information, contact Fred
Schwieg, CSMG Coordinator, voice: 440/331-3581.
CloudWater
Zendo announces summer break beginning August 19
CloudWater
Zendo will pause its busy schedule of classes from August
19 through September 5 for summer break. Its regular meditation
schedule will resume Tuesday, September 6. On Sunday, September
11, CloudWater will hold an all-day Kuan Yin Intensive from
8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Students can choose to attend the Medium
Intensive from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm or the Short Intensive
from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. CloudWater Zendo is located at
14436 Puritas Ave. on Cleveland's West Side. Call 216/889-1393
or e-mail yingfa@cloudwater.org
for more information.
Buddhist
Peace Fellowship recognizes new Cleveland Chapter
The
Cleveland Chapter of the Buddhist
Peace Fellowship (BPF) recently received official recognition
from the national board of BPF. The group has three events
well along in the planning stages:
- Participation
in the Cleveland
Peace Show, taking place at the Free Stamp park on
Labor Day, August 5.
- An
ecumenical 9/11 remembrance event on Sunday, September
11 that will include representatives of a number of faith
traditions. Location TBA.
- Participation
in the Saturday, October 1 AIDS Walk in University Circle.
- An
Inner
Disarmament Workshop with BPF board member Joshin
Robert Althouse Friday, October 14 to Sunday October
16. There will be a public talk on Friday at a location
to be announced. The fee-based Saturday and Sunday workshops
will teach nonviolent communication skills. Location:
Cleveland Buddhist Temple in Euclid.
All
are welcome to participate in any of these events or the
next meeting of the Cleveland Chapter on Sunday, August
14. The Cleveland Chapter of BPF meets at a different location
each month. Contact Mark
McDermott for more information.
Regional
News
Chicago's
Ancient Dragon Zen Gate welcomes Taigen Dan Leighton August
26-28
Taigen
Dan Leighton will visit the Ancient
Dragon Zen Gate sangha in Chicago from August 26-28.
Taigen Leighton is a student of Reb Anderson Tenshin Roshi
and founded the Mountain
Source Sangha meditation groups in California in 1994.
Taigen is the co-author of Dogen Zenji's Extensive
Record (Eihei Koroku) which was published last October.
E-mail Dean Williams
for more information.
Tibetan
relics on view in Columbus September 9-11
The
Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition
(FPMT) is sponsoring a tour of Buddhist relics as a fund
raise for its Maitreya
Project in India. From September 9-11, the relics will
be on view in Columbus at the Karma Thegsum Choling at 231
S. Grubb Street. Contact Michael
Brennan for more information, voice: 614/228-6546.
Noted
Zen teacher and scholar Shohaku Okumura visits Pittsburgh
in November; Cleveland in April 2006
The
Pittsburgh-based Stillpoint
Zen Community will host noted Soto Zen teacher Shohaku
Okumura Roshi for a three-day sesshin November 18-20.
For more information, contact Stillpoint's Don
Orr, voice: 412/366-4268.
Okumura
Roshi founded the Sanshin
Zen Community and currently resides with his family
in Bloomington, IN. He has translated many important Zen
texts from Japanese into English, most recently Dogen's
Extensive Record : A Translation of the Eihei Koroku with
Taigen Dan Leighton.
Okumura
Roshi will also visit Cleveland for a weekend event April
14-16, 2006. For more information on that event, e-mail
lbrakeman@cox.net.
National
News
Japanese
Buddhist monks carry Hiroshima flame to the birthplace of
the atomic bomb
On July
16, to mark the 60th anniversary of the first test of the
atomic bomb, Japanese monks began a 25-day, 1,600-mile "Walk
for Peace" from San Francisco to Trinity Site in New Mexico.
The monks are carrying a lantern containing a remnant of
the fire from the nuclear attack on Hiroshima on August
6, 1945. They plan to reach Trinity site on August 9 for
a televised ceremony where they will extinguish the flame
and call for world peace and an end to nuclear proliferation.
More
info: "Monks
walk atomic flame to Trinity Site," Alamogordo News,
July 27, 2005.
Click
here to search Google News for the latest stories about
the Walk for Peace.
Dalai
Lama will tour U.S. in September and November
HH The
Dalai Lama has plans for an extensive US tour in September
and November.
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Sept.
11-14
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Idaho
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Public
events and venues TBA |
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Sept.
16-18
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Tucson,
AZ
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His Holiness will teach on the 8th Chapter of Shantideva's
Bodhicharyavatara at the invitation of Arizona Teaching
Inc.
Website: www.arizonateaching.org
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Sept.
19
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Tucson,
AZ
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His
Holiness will give a public talk/interfaith dialogue at
the Tucson Convention Centre being organised by the Arizona
Friends of Tibet. |
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Sept.
20
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Austin,
TX
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His
Holiness will give a public talk at the University of
Texas-Austin. www.utexas.edu/student/txunion/ |
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Sept.
22
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Houston,
TX
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Programme
at Rice University; Details TBA |
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Sept.
24
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New
York, NY
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York City and New Jersey (His Holiness to give teaching
to the Vietnamese community)
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Sept.
25
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New
Brunswick,, NJ
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A
Public Talk on "Peace, War and Reconciliation" at Rutgers
University. |
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Sept.
25
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New
York, NY
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At
3:00 pm, His Holiness will grant audience to Tibetans
and Buddhists from the Himalayan region at the Madison
Square Garden |
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Sept.
26
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New
York, NY
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Programme
at Columbia University, Details TBA |
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Nov.
4
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San
Francisco, CA
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Stanford
University dialogue between Religion and Neurosciences |
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Nov.
5
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San
Francisco, CA
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Stanford
University Meditation and public talk; Discussion on Non-violence. |
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Nov.
8-13
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Washington,
D.C.
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Programme
TBA |
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Nov.
8-10
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Washington,
D.C.
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Mind
and Life Conference. Web: www.mindandlife.org. |
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Nov.
13
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Washington,
D.C.
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Public
talk sponsored by International Campaign for Tibet. Web:
www.savetibet.org. |
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Buddhist
Groups in Northeast Ohio
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work is to discover your work
and then with all your heart to give yourself to it,"
— Dhammapada, trans. Thomas Byrom.
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