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Saturday Night Avatamsaka Sutra Lecture (In Person: May 10, 2025)

5/12/2025

 
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Also available via live streaming (webcast) from Berkeley Monastery
Lecturer: Rev. Heng Sure (or DRBA monks and nuns)

Come join us for in person at Berkeley Buddhist Monastery starting on May 10, 2025!

Every Saturday night, the Berkeley Monastery community gathers to listen to a lecture on the Flower Adornment Sutra.  We investigate the sutra text line by line and endeavor to bring its ancient wisdom up to date for our modern lives in the 21st century.

For more class info: Please Click Here.

Daily Silent Meditation at Berkeley Buddhist Monastery

5/11/2025

 
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Join us for daily silent meditation at the monastery—a quiet and sacred space for personal practice.

Mornings: 6:15–7:15am (doors open at 6:00am), weekdays only 
Evenings: 5:15–6:15pm (doors open at 5:00pm), everyday

All are welcome to come and go quietly at any time during the session. These are open periods of silent sitting without instruction, offering a calm and supportive environment to deepen your practice.

Ukiah Valley Kid's Book Fair @ CTTB

5/1/2025

 
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You’re Invited to a Joyful Celebration of Reading! 

Come join us at the Ukiah Valley Kids' Book Fair — a fun and heartwarming event dedicated to inspiring a lifelong love of reading. Our mission is to promote literacy and education for children of all ages through engaging, hands-on activities that spark curiosity and creativity.

Families will have the chance to meet authors, illustrators, educators, and organizations who are passionate about helping every child discover the joy of books. Whether you're just learning your ABCs or already devouring chapter books, there’s something here for everyone!

Let’s come together to build a vibrant, supportive community where reading is fun, learning is exciting, and every child’s story matters. 

When: 10:00am-3:00pm
Where: City of Ten Thousand Buddhas,
4951 Bodhi Way, Ukiah, CA, 95482

​FREE ADMISSION AND PARKING 

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Redwood Vihara Website & Newsletter

4/17/2025

 
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Berkeley Buddhist Monastery is branching out and establishing a monastery in the redwoods! Visit our new Redwood Vihara Website.

Read our first Redwood Vihara newsletter here. If you are interested in getting news and updates, please sign up for our Redwood Vihara newsletter.

Deconstructing Reality: Science, Time-Space, and the Illusion of the Self

4/9/2025

 
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Dates: June 7-14, 2025
Location: Sudhana Center
225 South Hope Street in Ukiah, California

What if everything we believe about time, space, reality, and even our own identity is a construct? This retreat, led by Doug Powers and Bogdan Staszewski, will challenge our assumptions about existence. We will explore the implications of cutting-edge physics, Buddhist philosophy, and phenomenology, not as intellectual exercises but as portals to profound transformation.

Buddha Root Farm: 2025 Guan Yin Recitation Session & Chan Session

4/8/2025

 
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Location: Buddha Root Farm / Reedsport, Oregon
Guanyin Session: Sat, June 21 – Fri, June 27

Chan Session: Fri, June 27 – Mon, June 30
** Work Week: Sun, June 15 – Sat, June 21**

More details and registration here

Come join us in the woods of Buddha Root Farm, where we recite the name of Guan Yin and return to the refuge within. Following the Guan Yin retreat, we invite you to deepen your practice with a Chan meditation retreat in the quiet woods of Oregon.

​For those who want to join the CIA (Compassion-In-Action), come for work week before hand to setup the camp for everyone! ;)


Summer Guan Yin Session at CTTB (July 12-20, 2025)

4/6/2025

 
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Location: City of Ten Thousand Buddhas (Ukiah, CA)
Dates: July 12 - 20, 2025

Details and Registration Here


​Hosted with DRBU Extension at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. Come to the home of Guan Yin Bodhisattva to recite her name.

Master Hsu Yun's Pictorial Biography Lecture by Rev. Heng Sure (Fri 6:30-7:30pm)

1/5/2025

 
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Date/Time: Fri, 7:30-8:30pm (Pacific Time)
Speaker: Rev. Heng Sure

Rev. Heng Sure gives stories and lectures on the Pictorial Biography of Master Hsu Yun. ​The lecture will be in English, with Chinese and Vietnamese translation.

To sign up: [email protected].

Ten Transferences Chapter Lecture on Sunday by Rev. Heng Sure

1/4/2025

 
Come learn how Bodhisattvas creatively dedicate merit to all living beings from the "Ten Transferences" chapter in the Avatamsaka Sutra.

Speaker: Rev. Heng Sure 
Date/Time:
Sundays 7:30 – 9:00 pm
 
English Zoom link:Join Here (ID: 929 8519 9033 / Passcode: 95482)
Vietnamese Zoom link: Join Here (ID: 879 7769 2844 / Passcode: 922407)
YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/QEM_3BhT8IA?feature=share
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Morning and Evening Ceremonies Streaming Online

1/3/2025

 
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In the morning and evening, please join us in our daily ceremonies, where the ancient chants connect us to ourselves and all living beings.

5:00-6:00am Morning Ceremony 
6:30-7:30pm Evening Ceremony


YouTube Channel: DharmaRealmLive

Register Here to Join on Zoom​

Applying Buddhist Perspectives to Ordinary Life with Steven Tainer

12/28/2024

 
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The first in a series on Buddhist views of reality drawn from different Buddhist schools, this course will examine human existence and day-to-day life patterns, and suggest ways to correct negative tendencies and enhance life overall. Emphasis will be placed on perspectives that can be understood by newcomers to meditation training, but will also include some more advanced teachings. Each point will be explained in terms of several levels of insight, with suggestions for applications in practice.

Taught by: Steven Tainer
Dates: Jan 22 - May 14, 2025
Time: Wednesday, 7:30-8:45pm (Pacific Time)
Online Only Zoom Link: Join Here (Meeting ID: 874 3126 0912 / Passcode: 558681)





Avatamsaka Sutra Lecture by Martin Verhoeven

9/16/2024

 
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7:30 - 8:15 pm Meditation
8:15 - 9:00 pm Lecture / Q & A
Last class is May 16, 2025
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Join Online: DharmaRealmLive


The class will examine the practices and path set forth by the Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Sutra, which describes a cosmos of infinite realms upon realms, mutually containing one another.

The text touches on various topics such as the Bodhisattva path, the interpenetration of phenomena (dharmas), the visionary powers of meditation and the equality of things in emptiness.


For more details such as how to access the live broadcast link and the speaker bio, please visit the class link.

Insight Meditation Gatherings with James and Eve (In-Person and Online)

9/1/2024

 
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Meditation practice, Teachings, and Community
With James Baraz and Eve Decker
Thursdays 7:30-9pm PT

We will meet in person the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month. In-person gathering at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, 2304 McKinley Ave., Berkeley. Or, people can join us online using the usual Zoom link.


​More information at www.insightberkeley.org.

Come Join Our Chinese Music Ensemble at the Monastery!

4/24/2024

 
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Have fun learning and playing music in a Chinese ensemble! All instruments are welcome (strings, plucking, woodwind, percussion). Please bring your own instrument. No experience needed, although preferred. We can help you get started on an instrument. Sessions are free. All ages are welcome.

Dates: 1/25, 2/22, 3/29, 4/26, 5/31, 6/7 (Last Saturday)

Time: 1:00-3:00pm 
Location: Dining Hall, Berkeley Buddhist Monastery

Interested? Please email: [email protected].   

First Tuesdays with Abhayagiri Monks

4/1/2024

 
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Date: First Tuesday of the Month
Times: 5pm (Tea Time)
            7:30pm - 9:45 (Dhamma Talk)
Speakers: Abhayagiri Monks

On break until May 6, 2025

Please join us for a Dhamma evening with the Monks from Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery. At 5pm there is an informal time to ask questions of the monks over tea, and then at 7:30pm, there will be chanting, meditation, followed by a Dhamma talk. All are welcome. 

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