Term Opening
Sunday, 2/13
10:00am
(Attend in-person or online)
Join us as we enact a simple but important ceremony, in which members of our community step forward to commit themselves to participating in this season’s Term Student Program.
Parinirvana
Sunday, 2/13
10:00am
(Attend in-person or online)
Along with our Term-opening ceremony, we will also observe Parinirvana. During our Parinirviana ceremony, we come together as a community to honor the Buddha as he passes into supreme, perfect enlightenment.
Buddha's Birthday
Buddha’s Birthday
Sunday, 4/10
10:00am
(Attend in-person or online)
Every year we honor the birth of Shakyamuni Buddha with a ceremony in which we bathe the baby Buddha with fresh water and flowers. With this beautiful ceremony, we contemplate the emergence of Shakyamuni Buddha in this world!
Jukai (Ceremony of Giving and Receiving Precepts)
Sunday, 5/8
10:00am - 11:30am
(Attend in-person or online)
The Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts represent our aspiration to live an ethical life, as well as our commitment to the continual inquiry that such a life demands. They are the wisdom of the Buddhas and Ancestors handed down through the generations, and also something that already lives within our own hearts. Join us as several of our friends in the Dharma and members of the Buddha Eye community receive the Bodhisattva Precepts in a special ceremony. Jukai has been enacted countless times over the generations, and presents to us an important moment in the lives of individual community members but also the entire assembly.
Fusatsu (Monthly Ceremony of Atonement)
Wednesday, 2/16
Friday, 3/18
Saturday, 4/16
Sunday, 5/15
6:30pm - 8:30pm
(Attend In-person only)
Fusatsu is a monthly ceremony of atonement and vow renewal, coinciding with the Full Moon. We hold Zazen at 6:30 PM. Afterwards is the Fusatsu ceremony itself. Please hold noble silence when arriving and exiting the temple. No registration required.