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Happy 90th Birthday His Holiness the Dalai Lama

9/1/2025

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama
90th Birthday - Spread Compassion and Loving-Kindness
Atlanta's Tibetan Buddhist Center, Drepung Loseling Monastery at drepung.org


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News Coverage NYT HHDL
More about the situation in Tibet from BBC News: ​https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y772jlpgzo

New York Times on the Dalai Lama's Succession plan: ​https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/world/asia/dalai-lama-successor-tibet-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T08.-y_G.7ClHbBZ1_VO1&smid=url-share
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Urban Lotus: American Buddhist Folk Music new album streaming - using music as Dharma!

8/17/2025

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More about the creator of the music of Urban Lotus:

Reverend Heng Sure 
is a senior disciple of Venerable Master Hsuan Hua. When he’s not travelling to deliver talks and lead discussions on topics such Buddhism and Veganism, you’ll find him at home part of the year at Berkeley Buddhist Monastery in California, and the other part at Gold Coast Dharma Realm in Queensland Australia.

Born in Toledo, Ohio, he attended the University of California at Berkeley from 1971-1976, where he was active in theatre and music. After receiving his M.A. in Oriental Languages, he met his teacher, Hsuan Hua, who would later ordain him in 1976 at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (CTTB), as “Heng Sure” – a Dharma name which means “Constantly Real.” In 2003, he earned a PhD in Religion from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. He is perhaps best known for a Three Steps One Bow Pilgrimage he made from 1976 to 1979, along 800 miles of the California Coast from Pasadena to CTTB in Ukiah. During his pilgrimage, and for three more years after he arrived at CTTB, he maintained a vow of silence.

Heng Sure began playing guitar at the age of 16, and although he took a break from music while turning his focus towards a monastic life, he returned to the instrument in 2000. Master Hua felt it would be a great way to make the teachings accessible to Western ears, and encouraged Heng Sure to use his musical talents to turn the Dharma Wheel. And so for close to 20 years now, music has played an integral role in his life and teachings. In addition to three CD’s of Buddhist Songs and Stories, he co-produced an instructional banjo DVD, Zen Banjo, drawing on the connections he has found between meditation and music.

​As a leading expert on Buddhist Sutras, he works on translating many Mahayana texts from their original Chinese into English. When he’s in Berkeley, he gives weekly Dharma Talks on Saturday evenings at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, which are also broadcast online.

Listen to Urban Lotus wherever you get music, and more info at 
https://www.dharmaradio.org/urban-lotus/

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20th Anniversary of Buddha Mind Monastery in Oklahoma City

11/11/2024

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Buddha Mind Monastery is the Oklahoma sister temple of Atlanta’s Dharma Jewel Monastery. Both offer Zen meditation classes in English and in Chinese, Children’s mindfulness class, and more as part of Chung Tai Chan Monastery.

Venerable Abbot Jian Ying visited from Chung Tai Chan Monastery in Taiwan in October 2024 to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of Buddha Mind Monastery and Chinese Buddhism in Oklahoma City. (He also went to Chung Tai Zen Center of Houston and Texas Chan Pagoda Monastery, Great Dharma Chan Monastery in Boulder Colorado, and other American branch temples.) He gave a Dharma talk and teaching to help attendees celebrate this grand occasion! Go OKC!


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