Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple

Beginning Dance Class

rgee — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:41:07 +0000

The world famous Venice Buddhist Temple Ballroom Dance Class is starting an all new Beginning Hustle dance class.

There is no registration, just show up. No partner is required. We change dance partners during the class to insure that everybody dances. The beginning class will be held each Sunday. Teacher is professional dance instructor [...]

Sometimes, The Easiest Things To Say Are Also The Most Difficult

rgee — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:15:02 +0000

I would like to begin by first saying “Thank You” to everyone who has taken the time to comment on our temple’s bulletin board. It is nice to know that people do take the time to read what has been written. Putting out a bulletin board message is not necessarily an easy thing to do. [...]

2012 Shinnen En Kai

skawano — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:36:29 +0000

Shinnen En Kai on January 29th, 2012 with Performance by the Grateful Crane Ensemble

Dear Members and Friends,

Greetings for the New Year! May we take this opportunity to extend our best wishes for a very happy and prosperous 2012. On Sunday, January 29, 2012 the Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple Shinnen-enkai & Keiro-kai, joint Bukkyokai, [...]

Southern District Jr YBL Seminar 1, 2012

rgee — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:19:21 +0000

Five members of VHBT Jr. YBA attended the Southern District Jr YBL Seminar 1 at the Arizona Buddhist Church in Phoenix, Arizona, on the weekend of Jan. 14-15, 2012.

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Intro to Buddhism

rgee — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:39:16 +0000

An Introduction to Buddhism class will be held on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month beginning Jan. 13, 2012, from 7:30PM – 8:30PM. Classes are free, and will fulfill the requirements for the Boy Scout Sangha Award, the Girl Scout Padma Award (Cadettes), and the Dharma award (a non-Scouting award open to all). [...]

7th Annual Film Festival

rgee — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:30:23 +0000

Animal Fables

Around the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables, or jataka tales, illuminating various human virtues and foibles—from kindness, cooperation, loyalty and self-discipline on the one hand to greed, pride, foolishness, and treachery on the other. Instead of populating these stories with people, they cast the animals of their [...]

Happy New Year 2012

rgee — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:34:25 +0000

Temple Board 2012

Click picture to enlarge. Photo courtesy of Ken Chen.

Greetings, VHBT Members and Friends. As we usher in the New Year, I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve you and the temple. I will work hard and tirelessly to meet the needs of the [...]

In Our Lives We Experience Many Things

rgee — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:40:21 +0000

In our lives we experience many things. The things we experience we tend to label as pleasant, unpleasant, or neither pleasant nor unpleasant. We regard these experiences as being positive, negative or neutral. As human beings, however, we also look at our experiences and sometimes go beyond the simple label of positive, negative or neutral. [...]

Mochitsuki

rgee — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:18:33 +0000

Dear Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple,

Here’s to a very successful Mochitsuki event.

When our temple can bring friends and families together, we are spreading the Nembutsu in practice.

Everyone, young and old worked extremely hard. From rice washing, setup, boiling, grinding, pounding, cutting, shaping, brushing, packaging, distributing and tear down: all were done with extreme [...]

Mochitsuki Update

mamano — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:00:19 +0000

Thank you to those who helped with the setup this past Saturday!!!! Your dedication to the Temple is exemplary. And thank you to June Fujioka for helping me put the lunch together!

Thank you very much to YABA for setting up the rice into (23) barrels and the initial washing on Wednesday evening!

Schedule for [...]