Sunday, June 09, 2013

CELEBRATING BUDDHISM: TEACHINGS BY VENERABLE THUBTEN CHONYI JUNE 21-23, 2013



Treasure Valley Dharma Friends is pleased to present
Venerable Thubten Chonyi 
June 21-23, 2013

Celebration and ritual can be very important parts of any spiritual journey, and holidays are the times when celebration and ritual are front and center. On Friday and Saturday, Venerable Chonyi will teach about the Buddhist holidays, their origins and observance.

She will also speak to how holidays affect us both as a community through shared experience and on a personal level by bringing a sense of tradition, and inspiration.
On Sunday, Venerable Chonyi will conduct an Eight Mahayana Precepts Ceremony at sunrise and a discussion of the ceremony and precepts in the afternoon.

Friday, June 21, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Saturday, June 22,10:0011:30 am/1:002:30 pm 
Sunday, June 23, 5:00-6:00 am/ 2:00-3:30 pm

All sessions at LTTT Temple, 2312 W. Overland Road 
(Just east of the Overland-Vista intersection)

$15 per session or $60 for all
No one turned away for lack of funds


Ven. Chonyi is a Buddhist nun practicing in the Tibetan tradition. She is a resident of Sravasti Abbey, the Buddhist monastery in Newport, Washington. She received bhikshuni ordination in Taiwan and trains at Sravasti Abbey under the guidance of Ven. Thubten Chodron.