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Palyul
Ohio's spiritual leader, Khenchen Tsewang Gyatso will visit
May 15-21
Palyul
Ohio released the schedule for the visit of its spiritual
director, Khenchen
Tsewang Gyatso, May 15-21. Teachings will be at Lingling's
restaurant in Fairlawn. On Tuesday, May 16, there will be
two sessions on the Six Perfections: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
and 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Wednesday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m., there
will be a public talk at Copley High School's new auditorium.
For more information, e-mail pcdo@palyulohio.org.
Jewel
Heart schedules movie nights in May and June
Jewel Heart Cleveland scheduled two movie nights, Friday,
May 19 (Big Fish) and Friday, June 16. (Beauty and the Beast).
The events are open to all and begin at 7:00 pm. Jewel
Heart Cleveland is located at 2670 W. 14th Street in
the Tremont neighborhood. For more information, call 216/687-1617
or e-mail cleveland@jewelheart.org.
CloudWater's
Animal Release Service Saturday, May 15
CloudWater Zendo holds its annual Animal Release Service
Sunday, May 21 at 12:00 pm at Edgewater Park. Everyone is
welcome to bring pets or pictures and mementos for the ceremony
which includes a general blessing of all animals, administration
of the refuge vows for all living and deceased animals.
There will be a potluck picnic after the release ceremony.
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 Cleveland plans Change Your Mind Day June 3
The Cleveland
Chapter of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship is organizing
a Change
Your Mind Day (CYMD) observance the afternoon of Saturday,
June 3 at the Lagoon Picnic Area, in the Rocky
River Reservation of the Cleveland MetroParks (download
this map). CYMD is an international event promoted by
Tricycle magazine. The free event focuses on the
teaching of Buddhist meditation, and will include presentations
from the Jijuyu-ji Zen Group, the Cleveland Zen Group, Cleveland
Shambhala, the Northeast Ohio Soto Zen Group, CloudWater
Zendo, Stillwater Sangha and others.
For more information about the June 3 event, contact Dean
Williams.
The
next regularly scheduled BPF Cleveland meeting is Sunday,
May 21, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm at the Cleveland Buddhist Temple.
All are welcome.
Jewel
Heart hosts Ven. Thubten Chodron July 3-4
Jewel Heart Cleveland hosts Ven.
Thubten Chodron for a series of dharma talks Monday,
July 3, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm and Tuesday, July 4 10:00 am
to 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. On Tuesday there will
be an informal potluck from 12:00 to 1:30 pm. Jewel
Heart Cleveland is located at 2670 W. 14th Street in
the Tremont neighborhood. For more information, call 216/687-1617
or e-mail cleveland@jewelheart.org.
Local
News
Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group holds all-day sittings (zazenkai)
The Jijuyu-ji
Zen Group will hold all-day sittings (zazenkai) on May
20 and June 17 at the Cleveland Buddhist Temple (CBT) from
8:00 am to 4:30 pm. Suggested donation is $25 and includes
lunch. Students are welcome to come and go at their convenience.
For more information, contact Dean
Williams.
The Jijuyu-ji group meets every Thursday evening at CBT
from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm for zazen, a short chanting service
and a Dharma talk. The Cleveland
Buddhist Temple is located at 1573 E. 214th St. (corner
of E. 214th St. and Euclid Ave.), Euclid, OH (Directions).
Buddhist
precepts study group continues in Lakewood
One Saturday a month from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, Lynne Brakeman
will host a study group on the Buddhist precepts This year
we are reading from Being
Upright: Zen Meditation and the Buddhist Precepts by
Tenshin Reb Anderson Roshi. The next study dates are June
10 and July 8. The class will usually be on the second Saturday
of each month. E-mail lbrakeman@cox.net
for details and directions.
Insight
Meditation of Cleveland holds Vipassana retreat Oct. 20-22
Insight Meditation of Cleveland will hold a three-day Vipassana
silent meditation retreat Oct. 20-22 at the Jesuit Retreat
House in Parma. The retreat will be led by Amy Schmidt and
will consist of alternating periods of sitting and walking
meditation. Schmidt is a resident teacher at the Insight
Meditation Society in Barre, MA. She co-founded Southwest
Sangha, a self-retreat center and Buddhist community in
southern New Mexico. The retreat fee is $180; $50 at the
time of registration, balance due by Sept. 15. Scholarships
are available.
Insight
Meditation of Cleveland meets on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings at 7:00 pm at the First
Unitarian Church of Cleveland, 21600 Shaker Blvd, Shaker
Heights. On the first and third Tuesdays of each month,
IM's Brecksville Sangha meets at the Brecksville
Library at 7:00 pm.
Regional
News
Tenshin
Reb Anderson Roshi leads June sesshin in Pittsburgh
The Northeast
Ohio Soto Zen Group (NEOSZG) and Pittsburgh's Stillpoint
Sangha are collaborating to welcome back Tenshin Reb Anderson
Roshi for a Soto Zen sesshin retreat, June 16-21 at the
Franciscan Spirit and Life Center in Pittsburgh. On
June 16 at 7:00 pm, Tenshin Anderson will give a public
talk. Space for the sesshin is limited. Registration
details are available on the NEOSZG Web site. There
are still some spaces available. Contact Mark
Kasunic (voice: 412/741-2229) for more information.
Chicago's
Ancient Dragon Zen Gate welcomes Taigen Dan Leighton June 23-25
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-translator of Dogen Zenji's Extensive Record (Eihei Koroku) which was published last
October.
E-mail Dean Williams
for more information.
Louisville's
Zen Master Dae Gak leads Fri/Sat retreat near Coshocton
July 28-29
Zen
Master Dae Gak, guiding teacher at Furnace
Mountain Zen Center near Louisville, KY, will lead a
silent retreat near Coshocton, OH, Friday, July 28 to Saturday,
July 29. In 1994, Dae Gak received dharma transmission in
the Korean Kwan Um School of Zen from Zen Master Seung Sahn.
He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Kent State
University. In 2000, Dae Gak began teaching independently
of the Kwan Um School. The retreat fee is $75 and includes
vegetarian meals; participants must provide their own linens.
Preregistration is required. Contact Steve Berg at 330/893-2447
or berg@valkyrie.net
Jewel
Heart's Gehlek Rimpoche will lead a series of classes on
Shantideva's Boddhisattva's Way of Life
In 2006, Jewel Heart Ann Arbor will welcome its spiritual
leader, Gehlek Rimpoche, for a series of all day Saturday
classes on Shantideva's classic Bodhicaryavatara. The classes
will cover Chapter
IX: Affection of Wisdom. Class will be from 10:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. on Saturdays, the remaining dates are: June
3, July 29, September 30 and October 21. The cost per class
is $40 for nonmembers, $20 for members.
Jewel
Heart Ann Arbor is located at 207 East Washington St.
(Directions).
For more information, e-mail: programming@jewelheart.org
Columbus
Zen announces 2006 sesshins with Daniel Terragno
Columbus Zen announced dates for two week-long sesshins
with Daniel Terragno. The spring sesshin was March 31 through
April 7. The fall sesshin will be Tuesday, Nov. 7 through
Sunday, Nov. 12. Daniel
Terragno is the Dharma heir of John Tarrant Roshi of
the Pacific Zen Institute. Terragno started his spiritual
practice in 1967 studying the Gurdjieff Work with W.A. Nyland
before taking up Zen. Terragno received authorization to
teach Zen in 1995, and in 2001 received Dharma transmission
from Tarrant Roshi. Unless otherwise noted,
Columbus Zen activities take place at the First Unitarian
Universalist Church, Room 8, 93 W. Weisheimer, Columbus,
OH (Directions). For more information, e-mail: flemingms@hotmail.com.
National
News
Buddhist
Peace Fellowship holds international gathering in Garrison,
NY, June 22-25
Registration is now open for the Buddhist
Peace Fellowship's international Membership Gathering
June 22-25 at the Garrison
Institute in Garrison, NY. The group's intention is
to offer an opportunity to network and build its socially
engaged Buddhist sangha in a family- and children-friendly
environment. Speakers and workshop leaders will include
(tentatively):
Workshops
will cover:
- Issue
areas: prison dharma, engaging with and transforming racism
and other institutionalized oppressions, militarism
- “Inner
Disarmament,” facilitation skills, creating create
a dharma-based social change campaign, more
- Best
practices and strategies for BPF chapter outreach
- How
to create a dharma-based fundraising strategy for BPF
chapter
The
retreat is limited to 200 people. Visit the BPF
Membership Gathering page for registration details and
fee.
Dalai
Lama plans visit to Buffalo, NY next September
The University of Buffalo announced that HH The Dalai Lama
will speak on Friday,
Sept. 21 at the University's stadium as part of its
Distinguished Speakers Series. Tickets go on sale to the
public on May 30. Complete
info.
In other
Dalai Lama headlines:
US
Senators Hope to Give Dalai Lama a Congressional Gold
Medal,
Voice of America, May 11, 2006.
China
warns countries against hosting Dalai Lama, Hindustan
Times, May 11, 2006.
"China on Thursday opposed Tibetan spiritual leader
Dalai Lama's visit to Latin American countries and asked
foreign governments to be on 'high alert' against his
political activities and bid for 'Tibetan independence'
on the 'pretext of religion.'"
Dalai
Lama 'behind Lhasa unrest', BBC, May 10, 2006
"China has blamed the Dalai Lama for an outbreak
of violence at a Buddhist monastery in Tibet, accusing
the exiled spiritual leader of stirring up unrest. ...
But some analysts have accused China of exploiting the
apparent unrest for political gain in an effort to discredit
the Dalai Lama. Tibet analyst Theirry Dodin said China
had encouraged division among the Tibetans by promoting
followers of the Dorje Shugden sect to key positions of
authority."
WebCast:
Columbia University Symposium on Mind & Reality
Last February, the Center for the Study of Science and Religion
at Columbia University hosted a symposium called "Mind
& Reality: A Multidisciplinary Symposium Consciousness."
The event was dedicated to enriching the dialogue between
Buddhism, Hinduism and contemporary consciousness studies.
The proceedings are now available for download. Participants
include Thubten
Jinpa (one of the Dalai Lama's principal translators)
and Robert
Thurman. The event included panel discussions on the
topics of knowledge, experience, wisdom, meditation and
ethics.
International
News
South Asia celebrates 2,550th
anniversary of the birth of Sakyamuni Buddha
The traditional dates for significant Buddhist holidays
vary from country to country. This month, Buddhists in many
South Asian nations celebrate the birth of Sakyamuni Buddha
(aka Buddha Jayanti or Buddha Purnima). Legend holds he
was born in what is now the country of Nepal. Although his
formal lineage died out in India, the country's leadership
acknowledged his legacy in formal addresses to the nation
on the occasion of his birthday. A sampler of the headlines:
- Buddha
Jayanti: Thrice Blessed Day,
The Rising Nepal, May 14, 2006
- Lumbini
And Its Master Plan, The Rising Nepal, May
12, 2006
- 1,000
devotees walk in procession to honour Buddha, Malaysia
Star, May 12, 2006.
- President,
Vice President, Prime Minister (of India) greet nation
on Buddha Purnima, ANI, May 12, 2006.
- Images
for "Buddha Purnima", Yahoo News Images
- Images
for "Buddha's Birthday," Yahoo NewsImages
In the
Media
BBC Picture essay: Bhutan's happiness
formula
The BBC recently published "Bhutan's
happiness formula," a picture essay and audio/videocast
on the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan. The essay is associated
with a BBC series called "The Happiness Formula." Bhutan,
nestled between India and China, has a government which
considers Gross National Happiness as important Gross Domestic
Product.
Movie Review: Travelers and Magicians
I finally got a chance to view the DVD of Travelers
and Magicians, a 2003 film written and directed by Khyentse
Norbu Rinpoche. Norbu is also known as Dzongsar Khyentse
Rinpoche. He's the Bhutanese-born leader of the Khyentse
lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1999, his first movie, The
Cup (1999) was an Indy hit. Travelers & Magicians
is the first feature film shot in Bhutan in Dzhongka, the
Bhutanese language. I think it played at the Cedar Lee for
a very short time last year. I found the DVD at my dear
old Rocky River Public Library. I give it two thumbs up!!
(The Cup gets three thumbs up!!)
When
not directing movies, Khyentse Norbu Rinpoche supervises
his lineage's traditional seat of Dzongsar
Monastery in Eastern Tibet, as well as newly established
colleges in India and Bhutan. He has also established meditation
centers in Australia, North America and the Far East.
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