[UD News] Tonight—Bring Your Own Plate & Fork!
Join us for an evening of thanksgiving!Join us for a potluck dinner and movie night tonight—Friday, 11/28 at 6PM. Bring any of your Thanksgiving leftovers to share, and afterwards we will watch the Hong Kong Award winning film The Last Dance. From Wikipedia: This film explores themes related to Hong Kong's death care and follows a wedding planner who enters the funeral industry through a partnership with a traditional Taoist priest, seeking to understand the meaning of life and death through funeral rituals. The film received a total of 18 nominations in the 43rd Hong Kong Film Awards, making it the most-nominated film of the year. |
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Join in a Special Event this Sunday The temple will have a special event this Sunday. Please join us from 10AM to 11AM on Sunday, April 26th, for our weekly Smoke Cleansing Offering. We will also be celebrating our teacher and founder Dr. Lye's birthday!For those who aren't in the area, we will open this up for Zoom participation as well: Meeting ID: 844 8027 1385 Passcode: 108108
The Walk For Peace in North Carolina On January 17th, Dr. Lye and members of Urban Dharma joined many others in Salisbury & Spencer, North Carolina, to pay respects to the monks undertaking the Walk for Peace from Fort Worth, Texas to Washington, DC. Dr. Lye shares some explanations of the tradition these monks are practicing: “Thudong” is Thai/Lao for “dhutanga” – a set of 13 ascetic practices that the historical Buddha recommended and allowed for his disciples. Dhutanga practices include...
Happy 2026! We had a full house during our "Endings, Beginnings" New Year's event, preparing for the end of 2025 by chanting the Vajrasattva Hundred Syllable Mantra to clear and leave behind all that we do not wish to take with us into 2026. In Asian Buddhist traditions, cleaning and clearing the negatives of the year coming to a close is a more common emphasis than making new resolutions for the new year per se. Thus, every year on New Year’s Eve, Urban Dharma hosts and karmic cleansing...