Please come to the Vancouver Buddhist Temple Annual General Meeting February 26th, 2012 at 1pm and make your voice heard. Following changes in the BC Societies Act, the VBT board initiated a review of the constitution set in 1953. This work began in 2002 and resulted in final review and recommendation during 2011. In the December 2011 board meeting, the constitution committee including input from H. Mizuta, K. Mizushima, B. Akune and G. Chor made final recommendations.
Vancouver Buddhist Temple member Jessica Main was in Japan for most of the month of November researching her Doctoral Thesis. Jessica is the Chair of Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation on Buddhism and Contemporary Society. The Chair is the steward of UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program at UBC.
Please join our monthly gift card purchasing group and spend a small part of your dollars on gift cards. This means that one would commit to certain card(s) every month. For example, a member could purchase a $50 or $100 Esso gas card or a Safeway card every month. For more information you can visit www.shopandsupport.ca click on 'Retail Partners' then 'Dynamic Retail Gift Card List' to see all shops involved in the program.
How quickly the time passes when everybody is actively involved in our Temple Activities. I am now writing the message from the Board for our final Bodhi Mind issue for 2011.
Our Fall Bazaar with the guidance of our co-chairs, Dave Ohori and Yvonne Nakano was a great success with majority of our food items sold out well before our closing time. We wish to thank all the people who came to help in the food preparations and to the patrons for all their support. Special thanks to Joanne and Yvonne for making the hakusai tsukemono and the shime saba for the saba zushi.
As the most important Jodo Shinshu observance this is the date chosen to commemorate Shinran Shonin’s passing. The Hoonko Service in 2012 will be particularly significant, as it marks the 750th year since the passing of Shinran. At our Mother Temple, Nishi Hongwanji in Kyoto, special musical services have been conducted since April 2011 leading up to their Hoonko Service in January 2012.
Enjoy a weekend designed to promote fellowship between the various age groups within the families attending. Participate in activities, lectures and workshops. The event is open to anyone who is curious about or interested in the teachings of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism or is just a friend or family of someone who is. This is a family event where we will be living in the Dharma.
Around 500 years after the death of Shakyamuni, Buddha in the 1st and 2nd AD, a major revolution in Buddhist thought took place.The movement arose out of ideas that had been evolving over a long period in a number of sects in Southern and Northwestern India.The new Buddhist thinkers called their system Mahayana (“great vehicle” or “fe
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Vancouver Buddhist Temple member Jessica Main was in Japan for most of the month of November researching her Doctoral Thesis. Jessica is the Chair of Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation on Buddhism and Contemporary Society. The Chair is the steward of UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program at UBC.
Please join our monthly gift card purchasing group and spend a small part of your dollars on gift cards. This means that one would commit to certain card(s) every month. For example, a member could purchase a $50 or $100 Esso gas card or a Safeway card every month. For more information you can visit 
he 750th year since the passing of Shinran. At our Mother Temple, Nishi Hongwanji in Kyoto, special musical services have been conducted since April 2011 leading up to their Hoonko Service in January 2012.
