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Summer Camp 2021! Georgia's Vacation Dharma Day at Huyen Khong Meditation Center (Vietnamese Buddhist Temple in Lawrenceville - Gwinnett County Atlanta suburb )

7/22/2021

On July 21, 2021, we held an in-person youth summer camp day for children and teens! Activities included Dharma talks, mindful lunch, walking meditation, chanting in English, Buddhist songs, watermelon eating contest, singing and talent show with musical abilities, trampoline, playground, painting, arts and crafts, and more! And, it was completely free! Thank you to Maiha for making it possible, the Venerable monks and nuns and the many adult volunteers, especially from the Vietnamese-American community, and to donors who contributed, including Georgia Buddhist Summer Camp and AtlantaBuddhism.org.

Don't forget, you can sign up for email reminders for the next Georgia Buddhist Summer Camp, write us at [email protected]!

May We Gather: National Anti-Hate Event

6/19/2021

May We Gather
Please join us in supporting #MayWeGather, A National Buddhist Memorial Ceremony for Asian American Ancestors, to be livestreamed on Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 7pm Eastern.

Join the list of endorsing individuals and temples at www.maywegather.org

Emory Tibet Week 2021 Compassion Contemplation

4/9/2021

Emory-Tibet Week 2021 is online only! STARTS THIS WEEK!Celebrating 23 years of academic collaboration between Emory University and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Compassion Center is excited to virtually host the annual Emory-Tibet Week!
We will kick off with a day-long film festival on Sunday, March 21st followed by a week of a live mandala exhibition, and daily meditations and chants with the Drepung Loseling monks of the Mystical Arts of Tibet from March 22-27.

Please register to receive the Zoom link for free. There are TWO zoom link registrations, one is for the Tibetan Film Festival on Sunday, and the other works for all the rest of the events.

Sign up at: https://www.compassion.emory.edu/news-and-events.html

Tibetan Film Atlanta Mindfulness

Emory Tibet Week Atlanta

April 09th, 2021

4/9/2021

Discrimination against Asian Americans and Buddhists in the United States

3/5/2021

Commemorating the Day of Remembrance February 19:

While we are not aware of any Japanese Buddhist temples in Georgia (though there are several groups that practice in various Japanese Buddhist and Zen traditions), it is important for us to mark the historical discrimination that Japanese-Americans and Buddhists faced:

The forced removal and incarceration of roughly 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them U.S. citizens, into various kinds of confinement sites during WWII began with the arrest of Buddhist priests even before the smoke had cleared at Pearl Harbor. The prewar surveillance of Buddhist temples and the targeting of Buddhist and Shinto priests as threats to national security was based on a long-standing presumption that America is essentially a White Christian nation. The first federal immigration law that targeted a particular group for exclusion was the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act that deemed the predominantly Buddhist/Taoist Chinese immigrants as the “heathen Chinee,” a group religiously and racially unassimilable. Despite this long history of religion-racial animus, Buddhists drew on their teachings, practice, and community to not only survive the wartime incarceration, but advocate for a vision of America that is multi-ethnic and religiously free. The incarceration experiences of Japanese American Buddhists offer a way to heal and repair America’s racial and religious fractures that endure in different ways even to the present. At a time when the karmic legacy of America’s racial past has put into question what becomes monumentalized, Prof. Williams will outline a major new initiative to remember the names of those incarcerated in the form of a Buddhist monument that he is creating.

Excerpt from: Duncan Ryūken Williams, Professor of Religion/American Studies & Ethnicity/East Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. Williams is the author of the LA Times bestseller American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2019)

He will give an academic talk, A REMEMBRANCE OF NAMES: A BUDDHIST MONUMENT TO THE WWII JAPANESE AMERICAN INCARCERATION

In Harvard session, Dalai Lama sees connection as the response to turmoil

1/26/2021

In Harvard session, Dalai Lama sees connection as the response to turmoil:
“Happiness is in the mind,” the Dalai Lama said. As individuals and as leaders, when we reach out to others, lifting them up, we experience that connection, and the resulting fulfillment brings us happiness. We need a sense of oneness. We are each one of 7 billion human beings.”

“Time is always moving,” he said. “We cannot change the past. The future is not yet come. What kind of future depends on the present, the younger generation — you are the key people who can create a happier future. So, please, you should not just copy what has happened. New thinking is very necessary. Please think more.”

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/01/in-harvard-session-dalai-lama-sees-connection-as-the-response-to-turmoil/

You can watch the entire Harvard Business School session on the Dalai Lama Youtube channel

VeGreen 2 Go: second Duluth delicious vegan restaurant now open!

11/28/2020

GRAND OPENING! VEGREEN 2 GO
Delicious fresh pan-Asian food and veggie-shrimp cakes with twists on all-American favorites like veg burgers, all vegan!

VeGreen 2 Go is the third family-owned restaurant in the VeGreen family - enjoy delicious Asian fusion food like sushi and clay pots at the original VeGreen in Duluth, or healthier American fast food at VeGreen Burger in Town and Country at Cobb, entirely plant based!

VeGreen 2 Go is in the very corner of the Duluth Walmart plaza outbuilding, between Marco's Pizza and the Murphys gas station, facing Berkeley Lake Rd.

2605 Pleasant Hill Road Ste 400, Duluth GA 30096
Call ahead (470) 488-5000
Closed Tuesdays (as of Nov 2020)
https://vegreen2go.com/

Atlanta Duluth Vegan Restaurant Vegreen 2 Go

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/

His Holiness Dalai Lama birthday peace

One Mind Zen Movie set in China

10/27/2020

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

WWGYD

10/21/2020

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