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Wednesday Night Meditation & Dharma Talk:
April 22 & May 6, 7:30pm - 9pm Quang Minh Temple (Chua Quang Minh), home of Grant Park Meditation Etiquette Reminders:
Chua Quang Minh Temple 1168 Benteen Ave SE, Atlanta, GA 30312 Map grantparkmeditation.org/classes |
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AtlantaBuddhism.org is pleased to welcome two charismatic American nuns (including former Atlanta resident and Agnes Scott College professor) coming to us from Sravasti Abbey, a Buddhist monastery in the Tibetan tradition in the Pacific Northwest.
Venerable Thubten Damcho, a Princeton University graduate, originally hails from Singapore and has led teachings throughout the world with Venerable Thubten Chodron of Sravasti Abbey. Venerable Thubten Rinchen, a Stanford University graduate who holds a doctorate in physics, may be familiar as she used to attend teachings at Drepung Loseling right here in Atlanta! Everyone is welcome to practice mindfulness and feel the joy in our hearts. Wednesday May 6 at 7:30pm: Venerables Thubten Damcho and Thubten Rinchen will lead guided meditation and Dharma talk on cultivating love and compassion in our busy lives! Free, at Chua Quang Minh / Grant Park Meditation grantparkmeditation.org/classes Thursday May 7 at 7pm: The nuns will give a talk Thursday night at Drepung Loseling Monastery near Brookhaven, see below. Friday - Sunday May 8 - 10: They will help lead the Georgia Buddhist Camp. |
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Beyond Bias: The Path of Joy & Equanimity
by Venerables Thubten Damcho & Thubten Rinchen
Thursday, May 7, 2026 • 7:00 pm at Drepung Loseling Monastery Atlanta
How do we navigate a complex world with the steady heart of a bodhisattva? While love and compassion are the familiar gateways, Joy and Equanimity are the pillars that stabilize a long-term practice. Join visiting nuns Venerables Thubten Damcho and Thubten Rinchen as they lead an exploration into the more nuanced pair of these “Four Abodes”: Empathic Joy and Equanimity.
We will discuss how to move past the subtle biases of “us vs. them” and how to cultivate a joy that isn’t dependent on our own personal gains. This evening is designed to help you deepen your existing practice, moving from intellectual understanding to a lived experience of a balanced, unshakable mind.
Donation is suggested.
https://www.drepung.org/Changing/Changingmenu/Sravasti-Nuns-2026.htm
by Venerables Thubten Damcho & Thubten Rinchen
Thursday, May 7, 2026 • 7:00 pm at Drepung Loseling Monastery Atlanta
How do we navigate a complex world with the steady heart of a bodhisattva? While love and compassion are the familiar gateways, Joy and Equanimity are the pillars that stabilize a long-term practice. Join visiting nuns Venerables Thubten Damcho and Thubten Rinchen as they lead an exploration into the more nuanced pair of these “Four Abodes”: Empathic Joy and Equanimity.
We will discuss how to move past the subtle biases of “us vs. them” and how to cultivate a joy that isn’t dependent on our own personal gains. This evening is designed to help you deepen your existing practice, moving from intellectual understanding to a lived experience of a balanced, unshakable mind.
Donation is suggested.
https://www.drepung.org/Changing/Changingmenu/Sravasti-Nuns-2026.htm
Registration now open for our overnight Georgia Buddhist Camp!
All age groups (Children, Teens, Families, and Adults) welcome
Buddhist monks and nuns coming from Sravasti Abbey, Buddhist Text Translation Society, the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and more!
www.georgiabuddhistcamp.com
All age groups (Children, Teens, Families, and Adults) welcome
Buddhist monks and nuns coming from Sravasti Abbey, Buddhist Text Translation Society, the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, and more!
www.georgiabuddhistcamp.com
Songkran: Happy Southeast Asian / Theravada New Year - Cambodian / Khmer, Lao, Sri Lankan, Thai, Burmese! Festivals around Atlanta:
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Meditation Groups Now Welcoming You at Dharma Jewel Monastery!
--> Beginner's Meditation Class: Free 5-month consecutive weekly course with guided meditation practice and introduction to Buddhism lectures. Come learn about Zen meditation! Summer TBD in English, and separately in Chinese.
--> Children's class: Great for kids around ages 5 - 12 and parents/family, many Sundays at 10am
--> Open drop-in one hour guided meditation, select Sundays at 10am All welcome any week, no experience needed. Next: April 19 2026
--> Chinese Buddhist Ceremonies (Sunday Services): Mindful chanting of sutras and mantras, bilingual and all welcome, next Sunday April 26 at 9:30am - 12pm
Dharma Jewel Monastery
2550 Henderson Mill Rd NE, Atlanta GA 30345
Landline Phone: 770-939-5008 http://www.dharmajewel.us
--> Beginner's Meditation Class: Free 5-month consecutive weekly course with guided meditation practice and introduction to Buddhism lectures. Come learn about Zen meditation! Summer TBD in English, and separately in Chinese.
--> Children's class: Great for kids around ages 5 - 12 and parents/family, many Sundays at 10am
--> Open drop-in one hour guided meditation, select Sundays at 10am All welcome any week, no experience needed. Next: April 19 2026
--> Chinese Buddhist Ceremonies (Sunday Services): Mindful chanting of sutras and mantras, bilingual and all welcome, next Sunday April 26 at 9:30am - 12pm
Dharma Jewel Monastery
2550 Henderson Mill Rd NE, Atlanta GA 30345
Landline Phone: 770-939-5008 http://www.dharmajewel.us
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all are welcome for the Mindfulness Retreats at Dharma Realm Buddhist University
Join us for a week of recitation, meditation, service, and self-reflection immersed in a spiritual community, the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. This is a chance to disconnect from our digital devices, reconnect to our inner wisdom and compassion, and form a true network of caring relationships with those around us.
extension.drbu.edu
Winter, Spring, and Summer Residential Retreats are now open:
with teachers like Reverend Heng Sure, Ven. Jin Chuan, and Ven. Jin Wei
at Dharma Realm Buddhist University, City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, or Redwood Vihara, in northern California
Summer retreats: June 6 - 13, and July 25 - Aug 2, 2026
https://extension.drbu.edu/retreats.html
Join us for a week of recitation, meditation, service, and self-reflection immersed in a spiritual community, the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. This is a chance to disconnect from our digital devices, reconnect to our inner wisdom and compassion, and form a true network of caring relationships with those around us.
extension.drbu.edu
Winter, Spring, and Summer Residential Retreats are now open:
with teachers like Reverend Heng Sure, Ven. Jin Chuan, and Ven. Jin Wei
at Dharma Realm Buddhist University, City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, or Redwood Vihara, in northern California
Summer retreats: June 6 - 13, and July 25 - Aug 2, 2026
https://extension.drbu.edu/retreats.html
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Find a link to a list of many in-person (residential) retreats in 2026, including ones for High School and College students, young adults, and all ages:
BuddhistClub.org Includes spring and summer programs, and 3 - 7 day Zen retreats throughout the year at: - Tallahassee Chan Center (Florida) - Dharma Realm Buddhist University Extension (California) - Woodenfish (Japan for 2026!) - Dharma Drum Retreat Center (New York) - Sravasti Abbey (Washington state) - US Zen Institute (Maryland / Washington DC) etc |
VeGreen Noodle Vegan Restaurant in Buford: YUMMY!
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All the family-owned local VeGreen restaurants are yummy! Asian-inspired cuisine and entirely plant based food. Check out the original Vegreen is in Duluth; VeGreen2Go has a dining room and is also in Duluth, and now VeGreen Noodle is near the Mall of Georgia!
Vegreen Noodle 2660 Mall of Georgia Blvd Ste #100A, Buford, GA 470-238-8000 / vegreennoodle.com At Vegreen Noodle, our menu has a mix of familiar favorites like "Sesame Chicken" and "Mongolian Beef" alongside some tasty surprises like our "Black Truffle Fried Rice" and "Veggie Pepper Steak." Plus, don't miss our hearty noodle soups, they're cozy and full of flavor. And we're excited to offer a variety of vegan sushi rolls, which is pretty unique since most sushi places focus on seafood. And finish it off with a delicious vegan mango smoothie! |
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Why does Buddhism encourage vegetarianism? For hundreds of thousands of years, The stew in the pot has boiled up A resentment very hard to level. If you want to know why There are wars in the world, Just listen to the haunting cries that come From a slaughterhouse at midnight. Read more here: https://sunnyvale.ctzen.org/wiki/dharma-gems/dharma-lectures/buddhism-and-vegetarianism-by-grand-master-weichueh/ |
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Looking to practice mindfulness and meditation around the Atlanta Georgia area? Here are some groups you can try out, they're all different!
Drepung Loseling Monastery - Beginner's guided meditation Sundays at 11am, all welcome. https://drepung.org/ Buddhanara Temple - Saturdays at 9am, Zen meditation practice, 2197 Gravel Springs Road, Buford GA 30519 Atlanta Pure Land Association Mietoville - Sunday mornings, Mindful recitation (Amitabha Buddha name chanting is in Chinese but you don't need to know Chinese), 2800 Simpson Circle, Norcross GA 30071 Grant Park Meditation - Atlanta's In-Town Mindfulness Practice Group at Chua Quang Minh Temple at 2pm and April 22 & May 6 at 7:30pm : One Wednesday of the month at 7:30pm and one Sunday of the month at 2pm www.grantparkmeditation.org |
Drepung Loseling Monastery, Inc.
Beginner's Guided Meditation
Sundays at 11am (Chai Tea social back on the 1st Sunday of the month too!)
Both in person and online!
Parking is available behind the center at John Lewis Elementary School
All welcome to these events at Atlanta's Tibetan Buddhist meditation center and temple
- Guided Meditation, Sundays at 11am
- Medicine Buddha Practice, Tuesdays at 6pm
- Public Buddhist Teaching (talk by a monk), Tuesdays at 7pm
- Evening Prayers, Wednesdays at 7pm (in person only)
- Protector Puja, Thursdays at 4:30pm (in person only)
- The Foundations Series Retreat and The Lamrim Series, monthly on Saturdays
Details at www.drepung.org/changing/Calendar/Current.htm
In Person and Online on FB, Youtube, and Vimeo Live
Beginner's Guided Meditation
Sundays at 11am (Chai Tea social back on the 1st Sunday of the month too!)
Both in person and online!
Parking is available behind the center at John Lewis Elementary School
All welcome to these events at Atlanta's Tibetan Buddhist meditation center and temple
- Guided Meditation, Sundays at 11am
- Medicine Buddha Practice, Tuesdays at 6pm
- Public Buddhist Teaching (talk by a monk), Tuesdays at 7pm
- Evening Prayers, Wednesdays at 7pm (in person only)
- Protector Puja, Thursdays at 4:30pm (in person only)
- The Foundations Series Retreat and The Lamrim Series, monthly on Saturdays
Details at www.drepung.org/changing/Calendar/Current.htm
In Person and Online on FB, Youtube, and Vimeo Live
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American Buddhist music and folk songs! Our newest album, Dharma Radio, with artists Reverend Heng Sure and Friends is available now on Apple iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, free from Good Karma Music, and more.
New to Buddhism? Start here, with lots of Q&A, guided meditation audio podcasts free to download or stream, and Tibetan Buddhism study guide!
The Buddhist Text Translation Society is the premiere place to get sutra texts, commentaries, and other Mahayana Buddhist books in English and various other languages.
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Georgia Buddhist Scholarship and Southern Buddhist Scholarships : next is spring 2026
Details here: Youth Recipients Supported by Emory Buddhist Club and Harvard University Buddhist Alumni Society
www.buddhistclub.org and www.harvardbuddhism.org |
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Meditation/mindfulness has many benefits, but it is not merely relaxing, sitting, or concentrating. In Buddhism, meditation means building up good habits of the mind -- an active way to transform our thoughts and views to nurture our compassion and to see clearly. Buddhist practices such as meditation allow us to leave behind our false projections and uncover the wisdom to be free from negative motivations such as greed, anger, and ignorance. Understanding reality lets us develop our wholesome virtues and attain liberation.
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Meditation/mindfulness is a tool that can help us calm our minds, relieve stress, and become healthier. Yet it is not the same as merely relaxing or focusing -- it is an active process to develop and habituate ourselves to positive qualities such as altruistic love and compassion, a starting point to find the root causes of our problems and change them. In Buddhism, meditation gives us the framework that helps us to develop our full potential by understanding the true nature of reality. To be awakened means to see reality as it actually is, not as we think it is, not trapped by our ego, misconceptions, and prejudices. A clear mind is the source of the penetrating wisdom of deep insight -- one that dispels greed, anger, and delusions; one that truly understands cause and effect, interdependence, and impermanence; and thus uncovers the inherent wisdom within. This true wisdom brings us freedom and liberation from sufferings.
But don't just take our word for it. Come try out meditation with us! Even the Buddha himself never claimed to be a god, and said not to rely solely on blind faith of his teachings -- in fact, he encouraged free inquiry, and everything can be personally experienced. In Buddhism, we must practice the path ourselves, as we are responsible for our own thoughts and actions. Only through our own cultivation can we generate boundless compassion and deep insight -- e.g., reading cookbooks or looking at photos of food does not cure our hunger, we must actually choose to eat! |
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