Events | Calendar | Past Events
Celebrating Life - Senior's Day 2007
--- July 2007
A New Year at the Temple
--- Feb 2007
Verses Delineating the Eight Consciousnesses
--- Jan 2007 to April 2007
Amitabha Buddha’s Birthday and Sakyamuni Buddha’s Enlightenment Day
--- Jan 2007
Sutra on the Eight Realizations of Great Beings Dharma Talk Series
--- Sep 2006 to Nov 2006
Senior’s Day
--- Jul 2006
The Venerable Guan Cheng’s Birthday Celebration & Charity Fundraiser
Buffet
--- Jun 2006
First World Buddhist Forum
--- Apr 2006
Prajna-Paramita Hirdya Sutra (Heart Sutra) Dharma Talk Series
--- Nov 2005 to Mar 2006
Causation Dharma Talk Series
--- Oct 2005 to Nov 2005
--- July 2007
On Saturday, July 21st, the International Buddhist Society held its annual Senior’s Day celebration. The event is highly anticipated by everyone each year..... [ Read More ]
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--- Feb 2007
The International Buddhist Temple celebrated the Chinese New Year of the Golden Boar from February 15th to 19th. As it is the last year in the twelve-year Chinese zodiac cycle, following the Year of the Dog, the Boar symbolizes rebirth and growth..... [ Read More ]
--- Jan 2007 to April 2007
Every Sunday beginning from January 21st, the Venerable Guan Cheng held a Dharma Talk series on “Verses Delineating the Eight Consciousnesses”. The verses were condensed by Master Hsuan Tsang of the Tang Dynasty from hundreds of scriptures and texts in the Consciousness-Only Doctrine. It is a must-read for beginners to the doctrine, with the central idea that both goodness and evil stem from our own minds. Studying the Doctrine of Consciousness will help us understand our inner worlds, which then greatly improves our practices as Buddhists.
--- Jan 2007
The Abbot and the Sangha at the temple performed two Chanting Devotions: for the Amitabha Buddha’s Birthday on the 5th, and for the Sakyamuni Buddha’s Enlightenment Day on the 26th. Both ceremonies took place from 9:30 to 11:30 AM. The day on which the Sakyamuni Buddha attains Enlightenment is one of the most important of the Buddhist year, for it is also when His birth and passing are celebrated.
--- Sep 2006 to Nov 2006
Venerable Guan Cheng held a Dharma talk series on the Sutra on the Eight Realizations of Great Beings (as spoken by the Buddha), which took place every Sunday from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM from September to November of 2006. During each session, the abbot systematically dissected and presented each realization that is mentioned in the sutra and answered a variety of questions from audience members. If you missed this Dharma talk series, please visit Lessons to access audio and video recordings of this event.
--- Jul 2006
Every summer, the temple hosts a Senior’s Day celebration to honor the seniors of the Lower Mainland. Despite the heat wave this year, over a thousand seniors came to enjoy a wonderful vegetarian lunch and scheduled entertainment, free of charge.
--- Jun 2006
Over 300 people came to celebrate the abbot’s birthday, and to raise funds for the temple’s charity and freeing sea life programs. Attendees enjoyed a delicious lunch buffet with more than 25 different vegetarian dishes, and watched a video documentary of the Venerable’s most recent trip to China. He and many volunteers freed over 100,000 sea animals in Hong Kong and Guangzhou. He also visited disadvantaged students and seniors who are the beneficiaries of the temple’s ongoing poverty relief initiatives.
--- Apr 2006
The Venerable Guan Cheng represented Western Canada at the First World Buddhist Forum, held in Hangzhou, China. More than a thousand Buddhist leaders, experts, and politicians from 34 countries around the world gathered to discuss the central theme: “A harmonious world begins in the mind”. Sponsored by the Chinese government, this forum is the first major international Buddhist conference since the founding of New China in 1949.
--- Nov 2005 to Mar 2006
Beginning in November 2005, the abbot held a weekly Dharma Talk series with detailed PowerPoint presentations, to introduce the Prajna-Paramita Hirdya Sutra (also known as the Heart Sutra) to beginners. Over 150 people attended the 4-month lecture series. Those who missed the Dharma talks may still study the sutra by reading the abbot’s Chinese book, Prajna-Paramita Hirdya Sutra Commentary 心經要義, published in 2006.
--- Oct 2005 to Nov 2005
The abbot held a 3-session Dharma Talk on causation in Cantonese, for beginners to Buddhism. More than 120 people attended.
