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The 8th Western Buddhist Monastic Conference
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TRUE TO THE SOURCE ~
November
7th - 11th, 2002
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The 8th Western Monastic Photo Album
Hosted
by: The Sagely City of Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery, Talmage,
Northern California
Co-host:
Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery, Redwood Valley
The Western Buddhist Monastic Conference is a forum for ordained
members of the Buddhist Monastic Sangha of all traditions to
gather with one another, share in insights and experiences,
learn from one another, and together look into the issues that
are uniquely and fundamentally important to our lives as Western
Buddhadharma Sangha.
The overarching theme for this 8th gathering of Buddhist Monastics
in the West springs from a topic put forth at the 7th Monastic
Conference ~ Adapting to the West: Keeping True to the Source
with regards to Monastic Training ~ and the suggestion that
this theme is not only deserving of more time and attention,
but due to its very simplicity, vastness, and perfect relevancy,
would in fact serve well as a focal point for our 2002 gathering.
This 8th Monastic Conference focused on the theme True to the
Source through a variety of methods: direct exposure ~ through
our contact with one another and on-site tours given by resident
monastics of both the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas and Abhayagiri
Monasteries; contemplation ~ through collective meditation and
listening; and communication ~ through informal conversation
and storytelling, as well as four traditional Councils centered
on the topics below.
...True
to the Source Councils...
I
Insight into Traditional Monastic Forms
II
Interface with Western Society
III
The Heart of the Matter: Roots, Bodhicitta
IV
Interfaith
In past years, these Conferences have proved to be a wonderful
opportunity to meet anew or meet again in the spirit of sharing
with one another in the great experience of both our diversity
and commonality as Buddhist monastics. For those training independent
of an established monastery or in a small monastic community,
the Conference is a precious chance for a few days steeped in
greater community monastic life -- not only in a traditional
training monastery, but with our greater Western Sangha, with
its whole spectrum of traditions, yanas, lineages and schools.
For further information, please contact Conference secretaries:
Ajahn Punnadhammo at (arcc@baynet.net)
~or~
Yeo Kwang Sunim at: (Jayusan@cs.com)
Bohyunsah Zen Buddhist Temple
1932 Highland Boulevard,
Hayward, CA 94542, USA
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