Announcement: retreat at Chuang Yen monastery
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From: BAUSCYM
WEEKEND RETREAT
On April 22 and 23, Dharma Master Fa-Tzang will be conducting a retreat on the
teachings of the Tien Tai School (Based Upon the Teachings of the Lotus Sutra).
Rev. Heng Sure will be providing a translation for the two days.
The retreat is during the day on Sat. 22 & Sun. 23.
Location: Chuang Yen Monastery, 2020 Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512
Fees: There is no fee, but we accept donations.
Saturday: 9:30AM-11:30AM - Dharma Talk and Q&A.
11:30Am-2:00PM - Lunch
2:00PM-5:00PM - Tien Tai Discussion and Practice.
Sunday: 9:30AM-5:00PM - Tien Tai Practice.
Tien Tai Contemplation and Q & A.
Dharma Master Fa Tzang Bio
Master Fa Tzang, a renowned teacher of Tien Tai Traditions, was ordained in Taiwan, in 1987. He has a degree in physics from Chern Kong University in Taiwan, where he also studied
Tien Tai tradition with the 45th patriarch of the Tien Tai School, Master Hsien Ming, the former Abbot of Chuang Yen Monastery.
After serving as Dean of the Buddhist Institute in Taichung, Taiwan for six years, Rev. Fa Tzang went into a three-year solitary retreat in mountains to deepen his Tien Tai practice. He recited the Lotus Sutra and practiced cessation-and-contemplation and the Repentance of Lotus Samadhi. He has accomplished the Annotation for Repentance of Lotus Samadhi.
Venerable Fa Tzang has published over 50 works on the Buddhadharma. He is President of Sangha Forest Publisher, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sangha Magazine, President of Buddhist Compassion TV Station, Dean of the Sangha Eduacation Institute, and Abbot of Chien Hwa and Yong Jin Monasteries.
Rev. Heng Sure, Ph.D.
Rev. Heng Sure ordained as a Buddhist Bhikshu (monk) at the City of Ten Thousand
Buddhas, Talmage, California, in 1976. A native of Toledo, Ohio, Heng Sure was finishing his M.A. in Oriental Languages at the University of California, Berkeley when he met his teacher in religion, the late Ven. Master Hsüan Hua. After receiving full ordination in the Mahayana tradition of Chinese Buddhism he commenced a "Three Steps, One Bow" pilgrimage dedicating his efforts to World Peace, traveling up the of California coast highway from South Pasadena, a distance of over six hundred miles in two years and nine months. During the pilgrimage and for three years following he kept a strict vow of silence.
A journal of the pilgrimage, With One Heart, Bowing to the City of Ten Thousand
Buddhas, was subsequently printed, including translations into Chinese and Vietnamese. Two volumes of correspondence, Letters From True Cultivators, were published by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, French, and Japanese, he speaks on Buddhism's encounter with the West.
Rev. Heng Sure currently serves as Director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery holds
a Doctorate in Religion from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California,
where he co-teaches a class on Buddhist-Christian Dialogue. He also represents Buddhism on the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative and serves on the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio. A vegetarian since 1969 and a vegan since 1980, Rev. Heng Sure regularly speaks on the topic of compassionate eating to audiences around the world.
From: BAUSCYM
WEEKEND RETREAT
On April 22 and 23, Dharma Master Fa-Tzang will be conducting a retreat on the
teachings of the Tien Tai School (Based Upon the Teachings of the Lotus Sutra).
Rev. Heng Sure will be providing a translation for the two days.
The retreat is during the day on Sat. 22 & Sun. 23.
Location: Chuang Yen Monastery, 2020 Route 301, Carmel, NY 10512
Fees: There is no fee, but we accept donations.
Saturday: 9:30AM-11:30AM - Dharma Talk and Q&A.
11:30Am-2:00PM - Lunch
2:00PM-5:00PM - Tien Tai Discussion and Practice.
Sunday: 9:30AM-5:00PM - Tien Tai Practice.
Tien Tai Contemplation and Q & A.
Dharma Master Fa Tzang Bio
Master Fa Tzang, a renowned teacher of Tien Tai Traditions, was ordained in Taiwan, in 1987. He has a degree in physics from Chern Kong University in Taiwan, where he also studied
Tien Tai tradition with the 45th patriarch of the Tien Tai School, Master Hsien Ming, the former Abbot of Chuang Yen Monastery.
After serving as Dean of the Buddhist Institute in Taichung, Taiwan for six years, Rev. Fa Tzang went into a three-year solitary retreat in mountains to deepen his Tien Tai practice. He recited the Lotus Sutra and practiced cessation-and-contemplation and the Repentance of Lotus Samadhi. He has accomplished the Annotation for Repentance of Lotus Samadhi.
Venerable Fa Tzang has published over 50 works on the Buddhadharma. He is President of Sangha Forest Publisher, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sangha Magazine, President of Buddhist Compassion TV Station, Dean of the Sangha Eduacation Institute, and Abbot of Chien Hwa and Yong Jin Monasteries.
Rev. Heng Sure, Ph.D.
Rev. Heng Sure ordained as a Buddhist Bhikshu (monk) at the City of Ten Thousand
Buddhas, Talmage, California, in 1976. A native of Toledo, Ohio, Heng Sure was finishing his M.A. in Oriental Languages at the University of California, Berkeley when he met his teacher in religion, the late Ven. Master Hsüan Hua. After receiving full ordination in the Mahayana tradition of Chinese Buddhism he commenced a "Three Steps, One Bow" pilgrimage dedicating his efforts to World Peace, traveling up the of California coast highway from South Pasadena, a distance of over six hundred miles in two years and nine months. During the pilgrimage and for three years following he kept a strict vow of silence.
A journal of the pilgrimage, With One Heart, Bowing to the City of Ten Thousand
Buddhas, was subsequently printed, including translations into Chinese and Vietnamese. Two volumes of correspondence, Letters From True Cultivators, were published by the Buddhist Text Translation Society. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, French, and Japanese, he speaks on Buddhism's encounter with the West.
Rev. Heng Sure currently serves as Director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery holds
a Doctorate in Religion from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California,
where he co-teaches a class on Buddhist-Christian Dialogue. He also represents Buddhism on the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative and serves on the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio. A vegetarian since 1969 and a vegan since 1980, Rev. Heng Sure regularly speaks on the topic of compassionate eating to audiences around the world.
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