Daily Events

Open Meditation  
Thu and Fri, 6:15 - 7:15 AM
Everyday, 5:15-6:15 PM

Tai Ji Quan 
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday Mornings, 7:15- 8:45 AM
Guang Ping Yang Style
Instructor: Futung Cheng

Weekly Events

Saturday Night Avatamsaka Sutra Lecture
Saturdays, 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Also available via live streaming (webcast) from Berkeley Monastery
Lecturer: Rev. Heng Sure

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.

Thursday Night Meditation Practice, Teachings, and Community
2nd and 4th Thursday of the month starting October 10, 2024
7:30 - 9 PM Pacific Time
Instructors: James Baraz and Eve Decker
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

In-person gathering at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, 2304 McKinley Ave., Berkeley. Or, people can join us online using the usual Zoom link.

Applying Buddhist Perspectives to Ordinary Life
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.  

Dates: Weekly from January 22 through May 14.
Time: Wednesday evenings on Zoom, 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. Pacific Time.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87431260912
Meeting ID: 874 3126 0912
Passcode: 558681

Friday Night Meditation & Avatamsaka Sutra 

Classes resume September 27th, 2024.
Time: Fridays 7:30-9 p.m.
​​Instructor: Professor Martin Verhoeven

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.

Also available via live streaming (webcast) from Berkeley Monastery

Monthly Events

First Tuesday with Abhayagiri Monks

Date: First Tuesday of every month
Times: 5pm (Tea Time)
            7:30pm - 9:45 (Dhamma Talk)
Speaker(s): Monks from Abhayagiri Monastery

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.