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Happy 85th Birthday to His Holiness the Dalai Lama

10/29/2020

Celebrating His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 85th Birthday

Join us as we celebrate the 85th birthday of His Holiness the Dalai Lama! The Drepung Loseling Monastery Atlanta monks will present the Long Life Offering Puja for World Peace via Livestream at https://livestream.com/accounts/7116288
(Link also through www.drepung.org)

In celebration of his 85th birthday, His Holiness is releasing an album that combines music with Buddhist teachings. All proceeds earned from the album will go to non-profit organizations that the Dalai Lama supports.

One of the benefiting organizations is SEE Learning, an international education program developed by the Center for Contemplative Science and Compassion Based Ethics at Emory University and the Dalai Lama.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dalai-lama-debut-album-inner-world-1012484/

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One Mind Zen Movie set in China

10/27/2020

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ONE MIND
"Incredible footage. To be any closer you’d have to shave your head."
— Bill Porter (Red Pine)

Online Film Screening: ONE MIND is a cinematic meditation on life inside one of China’s most revered and austere Zen Buddhist monastic communities.

About the movie: http://www.commonfolkfilms.com/onemind
Can't join us? Buy or rent it here online http://onemindmovie.com/

ONE MIND is a rare cinematic portrait of life inside one of China’s most austere and revered Zen communities. The monks at Zhenru Chan Monastery continue to uphold a strict monastic code established over 1200 years ago by the founding patriarchs of Zen in China. In harmony with the land that sustains them, the monks operate an organic farm, grow tea, and harvest bamboo to fuel their kitchen fires. At the heart of this community, a group of cloistered meditators sit in silence for 8 hours every day. Suggesting a Zen version of the critically acclaimed film Into Great Silence, ONE MIND offers an intimate glimpse into a thriving Buddhist monastery in modern China.

Director Edward A. Burger (Amongst White Clouds) has lived and studied with Buddhist communities in China for over 15 years, and is the first Western filmmaker to be granted such unprecedented access to the daily rituals and traditions practiced in this remote mountain monastery.

But more than a portrait of life within this monastic community, ONE MIND is an experiment in Buddhist filmmaking. A markedly quiet and contemplative film, Burger has set forth to craft a documentary that is not ‘about’ Buddhism, but rather a ‘Buddhist film’. Taking inspiration from traditional Zen stories and lessons told to him by elder monks and teachers at Zhenru monastery, each chapter of the film explores the trials and challenges we all must face when we set forth to become wiser, kinder human beings. In ONE MIND we learn that this journey begins when we turn our gaze inward. That no matter how far we have traveled and how many mountains and valleys we have crossed, the true adventure awaits us within the landscapes of our own mind.

One Mind Chinese Zen Buddhist Movie Meditation Film

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WWGYD

10/21/2020

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We are EXCITED to announce WWGYD:
“What Would Guan Yin do?” is Georgia Buddhist Summer Camp's weekly virtual session with Bhikshu Jin He from Berkeley Buddhist Monastery (a branch of Dharma Realm Buddhist Association) in California. We welcome you to join this weekly session for adults to discuss ways of interpreting the Dharma to a modern & relevant perspective, as we identify principles from culture, tradition and popular opinion. We are using the Universal Door Chapter of the Lotus Sutra to see how the Dharma plays a role in our daily lives. Suitable for beginners and advanced practitioners alike.

Fridays at 8pm Eastern time via Zoom

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82908864838?pwd=NEhsTjl0empFbVBLa3FVN1pJK1pIUT09

Meeting ID: 829 0886 4838
Password: 777456

On hiatus temporarily October 20 - November 2020

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Happy 85th Birthday to His Holiness the Dalai Lama

One Mind Zen Movie set in China

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