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7-Week Class Series: Essential Buddhist Teachings
Member Group: Seattle Insight Meditation Society
Starts: Wed, Jan 9th
Region: Seattle, WA
7 Week Class Series: Essential Buddhist Teachings
Member Group: Seattle Insight Meditation Society
Starts: Wed, Jan 9th
Region: Seattle, WA
View, Meditation & Action – Deepening our Practice
Member Group: Bodhi House
Starts: Tue, Feb 12th
Region: OLYMPIA, WA
Wild Awakening book discussion group
Member Group: Nalandabodhi
Starts: Tue, Feb 12th
Region: Seattle, WA
Rebel Buddha book discussion group
Member Group: Nalandabodhi
Starts: Wed, Feb 13th
Region: Seattle, WA
Day of Mindfulness
Member Group: Seattle Insight Meditation Society
Starts: Sat, Feb 23rd
Region: Seattle, WA
Kunrik Puja
Member Group: Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism
Starts: Sat, Feb 23rd
Region: Seattle, WA
Reverend Kuwahara Seminar on Kyogyoshinsho
Member Group: Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple
Starts: Sat, Feb 23rd
Region: Seattle, WA
Tibetan Culture and Religion
Member Group: Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism
Starts: Sun, Feb 24th
Region: Seattle, WA
Painting Enlightenment, Healing Visions of the Heart Sutra
Member Group: Nalandabodhi
Starts: Fri, Mar 1st
Region: Seattle, WA
2600 years ago Siddhartha Gotama, the future Buddha, was a prince in an area that’s now a part of northern India. In spite of his comfort and security, he was unhappy and disenchanted with palace life. He decided to leave the palace and begin a spiritual life of a wandering ascetic. His spiritual journey ultimately led to his insight into…
Find out more »Member Group: Seattle Insight Meditation Society
Start: Wednesday, January 9 @ 7:00 pm
End: Wednesday, February 20 @ 9:00 pm
Event Type: Class
Tradition: Vipassana
Teacher: Steve Wilhelm, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel, Anna Ossenfort, Lauren Wilson, Jerry Harter
This class will be led by Local Dharma Leaders, Steve Wilhelm, Lyndal Johnson, Sooz Appel, Anna Ossenfort, Lauren Wilson, and Jerry Harter 2600 years ago Siddhartha Gotama, the future Buddha, was a prince in an area that’s now a part of northern India. In spite of his comfort and security, he was unhappy and disenchanted with palace life. He decided…
Find out more »Member Group: Seattle Insight Meditation Society
Start: Wednesday, January 9 @ 7:00 pm
End: Wednesday, February 20 @ 9:00 pm
Event Type: Class
Tradition: Vipassana
Teacher: Local Dharma Leaders
Twice monthly Tuesday evening get togethers with the intention of deepening our understanding of the view, meditation and action. With guidance from various Buddhist teachers we will explore how Buddhist teachings and the path of dharma inform and interact with our daily lives. We begin with a brief centering meditation followed by a 20 – 30 minute video/recording by teachers…
Find out more »Member Group: Bodhi House
Start: Tuesday, February 12 @ 6:30 pm
End: Tuesday, May 21 @ 8:00 pm
Event Type: Meditation
Tradition: Buddhist
Teacher: a variety of traditional teachers
Tuesdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, January 8 – March 26, 2019 Join us for an informal weekly book discussion group. Both Mahamudra and Dzogchen emphasize the ultimate state of awareness and the clear and luminous nature of the mind. Rinpoche presents the view and practices of these two traditions with a pragmatic approach and informal style. He teachers that by…
Find out more »Member Group: Nalandabodhi
Start: Tuesday, February 12 @ 7:00 pm
End: Tuesday, April 30 @ 8:30 pm
Event Type: Featured Event, Other
“There’s a rebel within you. It’s the part of you that already knows how to break free of fear and unhappiness. This rebel is the voice of your own awakened mind. It’s your rebel buddha—the sharp, clear intelligence that resists the status quo. It wakes you up from the sleepy acceptance of your day-to-day reality and shows you the power…
Find out more »Member Group: Nalandabodhi
Start: Wednesday, February 13 @ 7:00 pm
End: Wednesday, March 27 @ 8:30 pm
Event Type: Featured Event, Other
Join us for a day of sitting and walking meditation in the Vipassana tradition.
Find out more »Member Group: Seattle Insight Meditation Society
Date: Saturday, February 23
Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Event Type: Meditation, Retreat
Tradition: Vipassana
Teacher: Tim Geil
The Kunrik Puja will be led by the ordained at Sakya Monastery. The benefit of a Kunrik prayer service is a favorable rebirth (in the human realm for continued Dharma practice) for those who have passed away. For those who are sick, it removes obstacles. The service will include a Sur practice, which benefits those who have passed away by…
Find out more »Member Group: Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism
Date: Saturday, February 23
Time: 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Tradition: Tibetan Buddhism
On February 22nd and 23rd, Reverend Kuwahara from the Berkeley Buddhist Temple will be hosting lectures on the writing’s of Shinran Shonin. Friday, February 22nd will be a japanese lecture from 9:30am until 2:30pm and Saturday, the 23rd will be an english lecture from 10:00am until 12:00pm. Please come out to attend this wonderful seminar and enjoy the teachings of…
Find out more »Member Group: Seattle Betsuin Buddhist Temple
Date: Saturday, February 23
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Event Type: Featured Event
Tradition: Jodo Shinshu (Pureland)
Teacher: Kiyonobu Kuwahara
Here’s a wonderful opportunity for our youth to spend a casual hour asking questions of Her Eminence Dagmo Kusho (aka Dagmola). Would you like to know more about Dagmola’s life in Tibet and what it was like for her growing up there? You might read her wonderfully entertaining autobiography, Princess in the Land of Snows, as preparation for this Q&A…
Find out more »Member Group: Sakya Monastery of Tibetan Buddhism
Date: Sunday, February 24
Time: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Tradition: Tibetan Buddhism
Teacher: H.E. Dagmo Kusho Sakya
A weekend exhibition of the the Buddhist art of Iwasaki Tsuneo, and workshop with Paula Arai, PhD “My purpose for doing tiny-character sutra copying paintings is for you to see the teachings of the Buddha, to see the Buddha, and I am deeply gratitude to dwell in the heart of the sutra. Also, contemporary people who have lost themselves in…
Find out more »Member Group: Nalandabodhi
Start: Friday, March 1 @ 7:00 pm
End: Sunday, March 3 @ 5:00 pm
Event Type: Featured Event, Meditation, Other, Talk