Showing posts with label Carmel NY. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carmel NY. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2026

Sutra Study with Bhikkhu Bodhi (8/8)

Teacher: American scholar monk Bhikkhu Bodhi
Dharma students, on Saturday, August 8th, 2026, Bhante (Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi) will be holding his Sutta Study class in two modes, in-person (in NY) and online (on Zoom).

We will study The Book of Eights. See a PDF of this chapter here. To participate through Zoom, interested parties must register on the BAUS website here.

Class begins at 9:30 am ET with a 40-minute meditation: 30 minutes of mindfulness-of-breathing (ana-pana-sati) and 10 minutes of cultivating loving-kindness (metta bhavana).

Meditation is followed by sutta (discourse) discussion, starting at 10:10 am and running until 11:20 am ET. To determine the time in your own time zone from anywhere in the world, use The World Clock. (Zoom link below).
The schedule will be as follows:
  • 9:30 to 10:10 am: Meditation
  • 10:10 to 11:20 am: Sutta Study
  • The Sutta Study class will be conducted over Zoom at the link given here:
Zoom link for Sutta Class
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  • Meeting ID: 812 2960 9505
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Virtual meditation over Zoom

Wednesdays 7:00–8:00 pm (ET) with Bhikkhu Bodhi
Dharma students are invited to join Bhante at 7:00 pm (ET) for a Buddhist meditation session over Zoom by clicking here.

Each Wednesday evening, from 7:00 to 8:00 pm, Bhikkhu Bodhi leads a meditation session on Zoom. The session consists of a 15-minute vandana (chanting verses of homage as Buddhist music), followed by a 45-minute guided meditation. All are welcome to join in. The sacred Pali texts for recitation are attached separately. Please see class page on website for chanting text.

With metta,

Bhikkhu Bodhi, Chuang Yen Monastery (BAUS.org)
Passcode: 368764

Note: This is a recurring meeting from 7:00pm to 8:00 pm Wednesdays.
Meeting ID: 835 4090 0862
Passcode: 368764
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Meeting ID: 835 4090 0862
Passcode: 368764
Find local number: us02web.zoom.us/u/kcYniDdmfU

The Buddhist Association of the U.S. (美國佛教會)
2020 Route 301, Carmel, New York 10512
contact@baus.org

Thursday, May 14, 2026

Hybrid retreat with Bhikkhu Bodhi (9/4-7)



Four-Day Hybrid Retreat
with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi (online or in-person)
Buddhist Association of the United States (BAUS, Chuang Yen Monastery, Carmel, Upstate NY

PRACTICING THE DHAMMA:  From Bondage to Liberation a Four-Day Hybrid Retreat with Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
Beginning Sept. 4th and running through Sept. 7th a retreat will study the groups of mental factors that hold us in bondage to samsara, the cycle of repetitive birth and death, and the opposing factors that lead to liberation.

This retreat is based on the Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma, Chapter II, Sections 4–8, and Chapter VII, Sections 3–14 and 24–40.

The retreat includes Dhamma talks, discussion periods, and five sessions of meditation each day. It also provides the opportunity for those who haven’t yet “gone for guidance” (ti-sarana) to go for guidance to the Three Jewels, the first decisive step to formally becoming a follower of the Buddha-Dharma.

This retreat is conducted in hybrid mode, meaning it is both onsite in New York and online worldwide. Those who cannot attend in person can practice at home, participating online over Zoom or YouTube.

Those who wish to join in-person can come to BAUS/Chuang Yen Monastery and stay from Friday evening until Monday afternoon.
  • The monastery can accept only 50 onsite practitioners. If someone applies after the 50 spaces have been filled, that person will be put on a waiting list and accepted if prior applicants drop out.
Remember, anyone who can’t join in person can join from home via Zoom or YouTube.

REGISTER to participate in person only if committed to coming to Chuang Yen Monastery and staying all the way through Monday afternoon. If participating only part time, please join online.

A more detailed schedule will be posted later, but reserve these dates now. To register, go HERE.

Order a copy of the Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma (either electronic edition or hardcopy) from Pariyatti Press HERE.
BAUS: The Buddhist Association of the U.S.
美國佛教會
2020 Route 301 Carmel, NY 10512
contact@baus.org

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Meditate w/Bhikkhu Bodhi, Vesak, sutra study


CLASS INFO: Wednesdays 7:00–8:00 pm (EDT) with Bhikkhu Bodhi
Our Theravada JuBu teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi
Dear Dharma Students, please join us tonight (May 6, 2026) at 7:00 pm for a meditation session over Zoom by clicking here.

Each Wednesday evening, from 7:00 to 8:00 pm, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi leads a meditation session over Zoom. The session consists of a 15-minute vandana (chanting Pali verses of homage) followed by a 45-minute guided meditation.

All are welcome to join. The texts for recitation are attached separately. Please see class page on website (BAUS.org/en) for chanting text. Miss it? Don't worry. This is a recurring meeting from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm (EDT, New York time), Wednesdays.

With metta,

Chuang Yen Monastery/BAUS
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More activities at Chuang Yen Monastery (BAUS)­ for May 2026
Dates: Saturdays, May 2, 9, and 23. Time: 6:30 am to 8:30 am (PT) - 9:30 am to 11:30 am (ET) On Saturdays, Bhikkhu Bodhi leads a full morning program of meditation and sutra study.

May 2nd and 9th is a "hybrid" program in-person and online. The May 23rd class online only this month. The online class can be accessed through Zoom. Please note: To participate in this class, one must register with BAUS ahead of time: Sign up for class with Bhikkhu Bodhi

The Sanctuary Within with Ven. Youmin
Instructor: Ven. Youmin Date: May 10th, time: 10:00 am-11:30 am and 1:30-3:00 pm. Place: Woo Ju Memorial Library. Lead by Ven. Youmin, we will explore the ancient mechanics of the mind through the art of breath, deconstruct the filters of our perception, and gain a definitive framework for stress management. This is more than a lecture, it is a mental operating system upgrade. THE SANCTUARY WITHIN with Ven. Youmin 4/19 & 5/10

VESAK 2026: "Buddhist Christmas" in New York: the Buddha’s Birthday Celebration
Date: Sunday, May 17, 2026, 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Place: The Great Buddha Hall at Chuang Yen Monastery. All are invited to celebrate Vesak, commemorating the birth of the historical Gautama Buddha (Shakyamuni). We will recite the Sutra on the Merit of Bathing the Baby Buddha and make a Grand Meal Offering to all the Buddhas. BAUS invites everyone to sponsor the lighting of a blessing lamp or other blessing or memorial services.
Group meditation Wednesdays on Zoom
Group Meditation on Zoom w/Bhikkhu Bodhi
Group Meditation over Zoom, Wednesdays, 7:00 pm-8:00 pm. Platform: Zoom. Every Wednesday evening, from 7:00 to 8:00 pm, Bhikkhu Bodhi leads online group meditation. The session consists of a 15-minute vandana (chanting verses of homage), followed by a 45-minute guided meditation, either on loving-kindness or on mindfulness of breathing.

Temple of Enlightenment (TOE)
  • 3070 Albany Cresent Bronx, NY 10463
  • TOE Meditation Class and Dharma Talk with Ven. Subodha
Instructor: Ven. Subodha, Sundays, 10:00 am to 11:30 am on Zoom and in person at TOE on Tuesdays from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. Location: Temple of Enlightenment Meditation Program. In person only at the Temple of Enlightenment in the Bronx.

  • Bhikkhu Bodhi (BAUS); Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

New Year, New Mind: Cultural Reset (2/8)



JuBu Ven. Dr. Bodhi, PhD (Claremont Colleges)
BAUS is having an important New Year event (NEW YEAR, NEW MIND) at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, Upstate New York. This is the home of our beloved venerable Theravada Buddhist scholar-monk teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi. It will be held on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.

This cultural reset helps welcome in the Chinese (Lunar) New Year observed by most of Asia and nearly all Buddhist communities, ushering in the Year of the Horse2026 Lunar New Year.
Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Dharma,

CYM has completed the first semester of the course Ancient Path, Modern Mind: Chinese Buddhism in a Changing World with Ven. You Min.

The Temple is pleased to announce that the second semester will begin in 2026, with the opportunity to explore three core themes under the guidance of Ven. You Min:
New Year, New Mind-Abbot Youmin
  1. the foundational sutras and treatises that shaped Chinese [Mahayana] Buddhism
  2. ⁠the cycle of Buddhist festivals and their rituals
  3. ⁠the lived life of the monastic order in relation to society.
Students are invited to cultivate focus, compassion, and balance through study and shared practice. More: 2026 Ancient Path, Modern Mind: Chinese Buddhism in a Changing World, with Venerable You Min

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Meditate w/ Bhikkhu Bodhi Zoom (Weds)



Virtual meditation over Zoom (BAUS)
Dharma Students, join us tonight at 4:00 pm (LA time, 7:00 pm NY time) for a guided meditation session over Zoom with the great Bhikkhu Bodhi.

Recorded instructions by Bhante (Venerable) each Wednesday evening as Bhikkhu Bodhi leads a meditation session on Zoom.

American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi
The session consists of a 15-minute vandana (chanting verses of homage), followed by a 45-minute guided meditation. All are welcome to join. For the texts recited, see class page on web: chanting text.
With metta
美國佛教會
BAUS (Buddhist Association of the United States)

NOTE: This is a recurring meeting: from 7:00pm to 8:00pm Wednesdays

Monday, September 2, 2024

The Diamond Sutra, BAUS class (10/6)


CLASS: The Various Aspects of Meditation Theory in the Diamond Sutra
Not Czech monk Ven. Dhammadipa (Xing Kong)
Ven. Dr. Dhammadipa Sak, Ph.D. (aka Fa Yao) is the abbot of the US Zen Institute in Germantown, Maryland, and the Amata Meditation Center in Boyds, Maryland.

He previously served as the abbot of Chuan Yen Monastery (BAUS' CYM) and the Temple of Enlightenment. He is currently a vice president of the Buddhist Association of the United States (BAUS).

The Diamond Sutra 
Wiki edit by Wisdom Quarterly

This Sanskrit discourse is a Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra (a kind of apocryphal sacred text) from the genre of "Perfection of Wisdom" (Prajñāpāramitā) literature.

Translated into a variety of languages over a broad geographic range, the Diamond Sūtra is one of the most influential Mahayana sutras in East Asia, particularly prominent within the Chan (or Zen) tradition [1] alongside the Heart Sutra.

A copy of the Chinese Tang Dynasty version of the Diamond Sūtra was found among the Dunhuang manuscripts in 1900 by Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu and sold to Aurel Stein in 1907 [2]. They are dated back to May 11, 868 [3]. It is, in the words of the British Library, "the earliest dated printed book" [4].

It is also the first known creative work with an explicit public domain dedication, as its colophon at the end states that it was created "for universal free distribution" [5], a tradition carried on today by many Mahayana publishers given that the Buddha's Dharma is priceless.

Title
I did it, Batman! - There's no I. Keep meditating!
The Sanskrit title for this work is the Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, which may be translated roughly as the "Vajra Cutter Perfection of Wisdom Discourse" or "The Perfection of Wisdom Text that Cuts Like a Thunderbolt" [1].

In English, shortened forms such as Diamond Sūtra and Vajra Sūtra are common. The title relies on the power of the vajra (diamond or thunderbolt and also an abstract term for a powerful adamantine weapon) to cut things as a metaphor for the type of wisdom that cuts through illusions to get at ultimate reality [1], which is what the Abhidhamma literature of the Pali canon aims to do.

This sutra is also called Triśatikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra ("300 lines on the Perfection of Wisdom Sutra").

The Diamond Sūtra is highly regarded in East Asian countries with historical traditions of Mahayana Buddhism [1]. [It is not considered an actual "sutra," a discourse by the Buddha or his immediate disciples, in the Theravada tradition of South and Southeast Asia.]

Translations of this title into the languages of some of these countries include... More

ABOUT THE TEACHER: Born in Taiwan and raised in Malaysia, Ven. Dhammadipa received his ordination in Sri Lanka in 1987. He earned a Ph.D. in theology and religious studies from the University of Bristol, UK, in 2005.

Ven. Dhammadipa has also been a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago School of Divinity. His primary interests include Abhidhamma and meditation practices, and he frequently emphasizes the importance of meditation in society.

He is fluent in Chinese, Cantonese, Hakka, and English and is literate in several other languages including Pali, Sanskrit, Japanese, French, and German for his academic pursuits.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
  • 9:00 am – Check-in
  • 9:30 am – Meditation unguided
  • 9:40 am – Greet teacher/bow to the Buddha
  • 9:45 am – Introduction to the day’s master and class
  • 9:50 am – Morning Class 1
  • 10:35 am – Tea break and cookies
  • 10:45 am – Morning Class 2
  • 11:30 am – Lunch and break
  • 12:50 pm – Meditation
  • 1:00 pm – Afternoon Class 1
  • 1:45 pm – Tea break and cookies
  • 2:00 pm – Afternoon Class 2
  • 2:45 pm – Share the merits, bow to the Buddha and teacher, and group photo
  • 3:00 pm – Clean up
Celebrating BAUS’s 60th anniversary and the new Dr. C.T. Shen & Mrs. Woo Ju Shen Memorial Hall

Ven. Bodhi: Enlightenment for Laypeople

ONLINE: four days, from Friday evening, Aug. 30, through Monday, aftertoon, Sept. 2, 2024
American Theravada scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi from New York is holding a retreat.
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What did the Buddha teach laypeople?
During the Buddha’s time, tens of thousands of people left the household life to take up the monastic life of wandering ascetics.

The Buddha also had hundreds of thousands of lay disciples who continued to live at home.

To guide these lay disciples, the Buddha offered a rich body of teachings to enable them to live the best life — a truly noble life — while fulfilling their household duties.

Venerable Bodhi, scholar-monk
Over four days, from Friday evening, Aug. 30, through Monday mid-afternoon, Sept. 2, Bhante (Bhikkhu Bodhi, the most prolific English translator of early Buddhist texts in the world) will lead a retreat focused on the Buddha’s teachings for laypeople.

The retreat will be based primarily on the Maha Mangala Sutta ("Great Blessings Discourse"), but Bhante will gather a vast number of [Pali canon] sutras and other texts that show how a lay disciple can walk the path to liberation while dwelling amid “the dust of the world.”
  • Dhamma talks,
  • discussion periods, and
  • five sessions of meditation each day.
It will also provide the opportunity for those who haven’t yet “gone for guidance” (sarana) to go for guidance to the Three Jewels, the first decisive step to formally becoming a follower of the Buddha-Dharma, the Path taught by the Buddha.

This retreat will be in hybrid mode, onsite and online. The teachings will be in English only. Those who wish to join in person can come to BAUS.org (Chuang Yen Monastery, Carmel, NY) and stay from Friday until Monday afternoon.

Attend live, over Zoom, or on YouTube
Those who cannot attend in person can practice at home, participating online over Zoom or YouTube.

The monastery can accept only 50 onsite practitioners. If one applies after the 50 spaces have been filled, one will be put on a waiting list and accepted if prior applicants drop out.

If not joining in person, please join from home via Zoom or YouTube. Register to participate onsite only if making a commitment to stay for all of it until Monday afternoon. If participating only part time, please join through the online channels.
  • The Buddhist Association of the U.S. (BAUS)
  • 美國佛教會
  • 2020 Route 301
  • Carmel, New York 10512
  • contact@baus.org

Monday, November 27, 2023

Study and meditate with Bhikkhu Bodhi

Bhikkhu Bodhi, Chaung Yen Monastery (BAUS.org/en); Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
Today is the full moon lunar observance or poya day in Sri Lanka, where BB studied.

Keep the sabbath (uposatha) day.
On Saturdays Bhikkhu Bodhi leads a full morning program of meditation and sutra study. The meditation is from 9:30-10:10 am, and the sutra study from 10:10-11:20 am ET (New York time).

The class is held in two modes, in-person and online. Those in the vicinity of Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, Upstate NY who would like to attend in person can come to the monastery for the class, which is held in Woo Ju Memorial Library.

Those who prefer to attend the class online can join through the Zoom platform. 

The class is based on the Anguttara Nikaya (AN), the "Numerical Discourses of the Buddha." The AN arranges discourses of the Buddha according to a numerical pattern, grouping together discourses that revolve around the same number of items.

We are presently studying “The Book of the Sixes.” For an electronic file of the text, use the button to the left.


ABOUT: The teacher, Ven. Bodhi, has been a Theravada Buddhist monk since 1972 and is highly regarded as a scholar and teacher. He has lived at Chuang Yen Monastery since 2007 and is the current president of BAUS (Buddhist Association of the United States). His translation of the entire Anguttara Nikaya is published by Wisdom Publications (Boston, 2012, 1,900 pages) under the title, The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha.

The teachings are free, and your generous dana (charitable donations) to support the teachings are welcome.

Please make check payable to BAUS and/or click HERE to donate at our website (baus.org/en). Please reference the course on all the payment methods. Thank you for your generosity.

To participate in this class, you must register with BAUS. You can register by clicking on Sign-up for the class notice or by clicking “Register.” If you are already registered, there is no need to re-register.

Friday, September 22, 2023

Early Paths to Liberation (Bhikkhu Bodhi)


Models of the Path to Liberation in Early Buddhism in English [with accommodation] for Russian-speaking students of Buddhism by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi:

Dharma Friends, all are welcome to join Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi on Sept. 23 for his upcoming monthly Dharma talk (in English) to Russian-speaking Buddhists.

The program runs from 9:30-11:20 am (US Eastern time) = 4:30- 6:20 pm (Moscow time). The talks are given in English, with a consecutive Russian translation.

Each session is organized as follows: Guided meditation (20 minutes) Dhamma talk (60 minutes) Questions & Answers (30 minutes).

Join through this link and password: ZOOM LINK Sept. 23, 2023: The Seven Factors of Enlightenment (selections from SN Chapter 46) -- Part 1 Passcode: Sambodhi

Meeting ID: 812 2960 9505 Passcode: Sambodhi
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With metta,

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
The Buddhist Association of the US
美國佛教會
2020 Route 301 Carmel, NY 10512
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