EVENTS AND CALENDAR
There's a lot of exciting Dharma possibilities coming up. Keep reading:
Special Events
On-going Events at the Abbey
Ven. Chodron Around the World
CALENDAR
July 2008
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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1 Youth Week begins |
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3 new moon
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8 Youth Weekends |
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Tsok 12 |
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18 full moon
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| 20 Sharing the Dharma Day |
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| 27 Tsok
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Tele-teachings/Live Video with Venerable Chodron on
Essence of Refined Gold by the Third Dalai Lama
One 9-week series:
• Thursdays, April 24, May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, June 5, 12, 19
You can’t contemplate or meditate on the Dharma without first hearing teachings, but if you live in a remote area or far from your teacher, what to do?
Ven. Chodron offers one 9-week series of “tele-teachings," accessible via internet or conference call, on Thursdays evenings at 6:00 Pacific time.
Essence of Refined Gold, by the Third Dalai Lama, is a classic lamrim text, which concisely details the steps of the graduated path. Ven. Chodron has been teaching on this text for over a year. She just completed the Perfection of Meditation so will be teaching next on the Perfection of Wisdom.
Click here to hear audio or read transcripts of past teachings.
Head to http://www.sravastiabbey.org/live and tune in for the live broadcast on the internet using uStream.TV. Ask questions in real time using the chat box! No registration necessary.
Or - just use your telephone, dialing into a central number (long distance charges apply.) You can dial in alone at home, or set up your speakerphone and invite Dharma friends to join you for teachings and post-teaching discussion after you get off the phone.
Since we have limited number of phone connections, a $90 deposit is required to reserve your place on the phone calls. We have instituted this procedure to help minimize the number of no-shows and last minute cancellations. Your deposit can be returned (at your request) at the end of the series.
Click
to register or ask for more information.
Getting Along with Others: Bringing Harmony to Family, Work, and Other Relationships
Seven Tuesdays, May 13 - June 24, 7 p.m.
The Create Place, 900 West 4th Street, Newport, WA
If your boss isn't driving you crazy, then your spouse probably is . . . or your kid, or your neighbor, or the neighbor's dog. What gives us more heartburn (and heartache) than our relationships with others? Well-known teacher Thubten Chodron offers tools for improving the quality of our relationships and our lives.
All are welcome. No pre-registration necessary. Attend one, some, or all sessions.
Click here to download the flyer.
Friends of Sravasti Abbey Leadership Team and Volunteer Meeting – May 14 to 18
Sravasti Abbey
For people who care about Sravasti Abbey and want to contribute to its flourishing.
Friends of Sravasti Abbey (FOSA) is an inter-connected web of Dharma friends, lay and ordained, who support the Abbey's vision, offering service and material support. Join the dynamic volunteer team that will help manifest the Abbey's first monastic residence! The meeting begins Wednesday night with a shared medicine meal and evening practice and ends Sunday after lunch.
Write
for more details.
Vesak Day Puja to Honor our Singapore Benefactors – May 19 6:00 pm
Friends of Sravasti Abbey-Singapore put forth much joyous effort for Ven. Chodron’s recent Asian teaching tour. On this Chinese Vesak Day, we will commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana of the Buddha, dedicating the merit for all our benefactors, especially for the generosity of the Singaporeans. All are welcome.
Planting Seeds to Cultivate Wisdom – May 23 to 26
Memorial Day Lamrim Retreat
Sravasti Abbey
It’s gardening season. What kind of seeds are you planting in your mind? Spend Memorial Day weekend at Sravasti Abbey cultivating the seeds of wisdom that ripen in ultimate happiness. This lam rim retreat will emphasize the two kinds of wisdom—wisdom as it relates to karma (our actions and their results) and wisdom that realizes the nature of reality.
Retreat begins at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and ends after lunch on Monday. A dana offering a registration form are requested to reserve your place.
Click here to register.
Click here to download Planting Seeds of Compassion flyer.
Sravasti Abbey Annual Open House – June 8
1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
For friends, neightbors, and friends we haven’t met yet.
Please stop by Sravasti Abbey for refreshments and fellowship, walk the land, and hear plans for the new monastic residence.
Vesak Day celebration – June 18 7 p.m. Join us for Lama Chopa puja to celebrate the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana
Youth Week - Buddhist Practice and Community Life - July 1 to 8
Retreat for Young Adults 18-25 Years Old Sravasti Abbey
Join us for one week of community life at a Buddhist monastery.
Share in a week of fun and learning. Engage your body and mind in meditation practices, teachings, Dharma discussions and outdoor work on 240 acres with beautiful gardens, meadows and woodlands in northeastern Washington state.
Sravasti Abbey is a new residence for Buddhist monastics and those preparing for ordination. Is is a place to learn and practice the teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition within our own American culture. It is a home where we endeavor to create peace through embodying the Buddhist values of non-harming, mindfulness, compassion, inter-relatedness, respect for nature and service to sentient beings.
Click here to see what we did last time.
Click here to register.
Click here to download Spring Flyer.
Exploring Monastic Life - August 19 - September 4, 2008
Retreat for Those Exploring Ordination
Sravasti Abbey
This program is for people who have expressed interest in knowing more about monastic life and exploring the possibility of ordination, as well as for those who have been ordained for five years or less. It will include meditation, teachings, discussion, and offering service to the community.
Click here to see our information page and download and fill out the appropriate application, monastic or lay practitioner, on that page and return to
by July 1. Space is limited; we will let you know by July 15 if you have been accepted.
To create a cohesive group, everyone must attend the entire program. Partial attendance is not possible.
Click here to listen to August 2006 teachings.
Click here to see what we did last time.
Click here to register.
ONGOING EVENTS
Sharing the Dharma Day
Sravasti Abbey
“Open Heart, Clear Mind – Buddhist ideas for everyone!”
Please join Ven.Thubten Chodron and Abbey residents for all or any of the sessions each month. Meet other like-minded folks and explore ideas together.
Click here to get the flyer.
Session 1: 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. – Meditation
11:00 a.m. – Noon – Dharma talk
Session 2: 12:15 p.m.
Vegetarian potluck lunch & informal Dharma discussion/Q&A
Session 3: 1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Contemplation and discussion of topic of the month
Session 4: 3:00 p.m
Tour of Buddhist artwork or grounds (weather depending) for
newcomers
Monthly teaching and discussion topics for 2008:
| March 16 |
Ethics |
| April 6 |
Purification & The Four Opponent Powers |
| May 4 |
Developing a Kind Heart: Loving-kindness |
| June 29 |
Developing a Kind Heart: Compassion |
| July 20 |
Nurturing Altruism & Bodhicitta |
| August 17 |
Wisdom that Realizes Reality |
| September 21 |
Meditation |
| October 19 |
Taking Refuge in the Three Jewels |
| November 16 |
The Buddha’s Life |
Prostrations from Afar - Ongoing
Join up with other practitioners to do '100,000' prostrations. Read about joining in with others for support and community.
View instruction videos on prostrations from Venerable :
- Instructions (Quicktime -22 MB) (Windows Media - 16 MB)
- Demonstration ( Quicktime - 58 MB) (Windows Media - 29.8 MB)
Be patient it takes around 5 minutes to download each one.
Internet Explorer users: Look at the lower left hand corner of your browser, there is a download icon.
The Quicktime versions require the latest Quicktime update. Download it here.
Practitioners from around the world are participating in the prostrations from afar. During previous monthly teleconferences, Ven. Chodron answered participants’ questions. You can listen to the recordings of the teleconferences at Venerable's website.
Info:
Dharma discussions in Coeur d'Alene
These discussions, led by a senior student, are every Thursday of every month. Contact
for info. Or call 208-665-5862
Click here (http://calendar.yahoo.com/cdadharma) for event calendar
Dharma discussions in Spokane
Spokane Dharma Friends meets every Thursday at 5:30 to listen to Essence of Refined Gold tele-teachings in Gonzaga University's Foley Teleconference Center ACT lab in the Library. Contact
.Or call (509) 389-5942.
Offering Service Weekends
| April 4-6 |
September 5-7 |
| April11-13 |
September 12-14 |
| May 2-5 |
September 19-21 |
| May 9-11 |
September 26-28 |
| May16-18 |
October 3-5 |
| May 30-June 1 |
October 10-12 |
| June 6-8 |
October 17-19 |
| June 13-15 |
October 24- 26 |
| June 20-22 |
October 31-November 2 |
| June 27-29 |
November 7-9 |
| July 18-20 |
November 14-16 |
| July 25-27 |
November 21-23 |
| August 1-3 |
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| August 8-10 |
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| August 15-17 |
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Come and join the residents of Sravasti and other volunteers as they work together and share the Dharma in informal discussions. Our visitors have the opportunity to live in community with the Abbey.Please contact the
to sign up for any weekend.
Volunteer service weekends have been going on since Venerable Chodron moved into the Abbey October 2003. they have been true examples of the Dharma in action, bringing together students and volunteers, Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike, from near and far. These offering-service weekends have be instrumental in remodeling the house, tending the veggie and flower gardens on a continual basis, preparing firewood, and editing audio teachings and putting them on Venerable’s website (www.thubtenchodron.org) .
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