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AtlantaBuddhism.org Mindfulness, Meditation, and Buddhist events around Atlanta!
A list of live webcast and virtual classes, meditation groups, and chanting services is on our website [http://www.atlantabuddhism.org](https://georgiameditation.org/online.html) and at http://sfzen.org/virtualchurch
A good resource for beginners is [StudyBuddhism.com](http://studybuddhism.com/)
Dharma Jewel Monastery, Zen meditation center in Atlanta, invites you to guided meditation and a sequential weekly fundamental concepts of Buddhism class! Join us for the next class Tuesdays starting April 15 at 7pm, all welcome! Classes are led by dedicated Buddhist monastics who have years of meditation experience and rigorous training and devote their entire lives to authentic Zen practice. Courses are offered at no charge. Everyone is welcome. Children's class on Sundays. Register today at www.DharmaJewel.US
Dharma Jewel Monastery in person meditation classes and groups - all welcome and free. Register at www.dharmajewel.us
--> Beginner's Meditation Class: Free 5-month consecutive weekly course with guided meditation practice and introduction to Buddhism lectures. Come learn about Zen meditation! All welcome, including both newcomers and experienced meditators. Starts April 15, 2025 at 7pm
--> Children's class: many Sundays at 10am: please register in advance
--> Open drop-in one hour guided meditation, select Sundays at 10am, all welcome any session! 3/23, 3/30, 4/27
--> Chinese Buddhist Ceremony (Sunday Service, bilingual), Next March 16 & April 13, 2025 at 9:15am
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In person meditation sessions and Buddhist events around the Atlanta area:
- Drepung Loseling Monastery: Beginner's Meditation, every Sunday at 11am - 12pm, in person and online
- Tuesdays at 6pm: Medicine Buddha Practice, and Tuesdays at 7pm: Public Buddhist Teaching, now back IN PERSON as well as online, at Drepung Loseling Monastery
- Atlanta Pure Land Association Mietoville Academy: Mindful Chanting Service every Sunday at 9am - 12pm
- Buddhanara Temple: Small group meditation every Saturday at 9am
- Emory Buddhist Club: Guided meditation for Emory University students, faculty, staff, and affiliates every Thursday at 6pm
- Atlanta Shambhala Center: Open house meditation Sundays at 10am
- Wat Dhammakaya Georgia Meditation Circle: Wednesday nights at 7pm
- Atlanta Chan (Zen) Meditation Center Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association: Zen meditation open to all, Sundays: Guided meditation at 10am - 12pm
- Roswell Insight Meditation Community, Mondays at 7pm on Zoom
- Mahamevnawa Atlanta Buddhist Meditation Center in Woodstock: Saturdays at 7:30pm
- Grant Park Meditation at Chua Quang Minh Temple in central Atlanta: First Wednesdays at 7:30pm and second Sundays at 2pm
More Atlanta local mindfulness groups:
Daily online, either in the morning or evening: Compassion Meditation with Cognitively Based Compassion Therapy (Emory-Tibet Partnership CBCT)
https://www.compassion.emory.edu/cbct-daily-practice.html
Mondays at 7pm: Roswell Insight Meditation Community
http://www.roswellinsightmeditation.org/ (currently Zoom only)
Tuesdays starting April 15 at 7pm: Beginner's Zen Meditation and Fundamentals of Buddhism Class at Dharma Jewel Monastery
Tuesdays at 6pm: Medicine Buddha Healing Practice with Tibetan Buddhist monks
http://www.drepung.org (In Person and Livestream)
Tuesdays at 7pm: Public Buddhist Teaching - Talk with a Monk, at Drepung Loseling Monastery (In Person and Livestream)
Wednesdays at 7pm: Dhammakaya with Meditation Circle
One Wednesday a month at 7:30pm: Intown meditation and talk with Grant Park Meditation at Chua Quang Minh Temple
www.grantparkmeditation.org
Thursdays at 10am: Protector Puja with monks at Drepung Loseling Monastery (in person only)
Thursdays at 6pm: Guided Meditation with Emory Buddhist Club
For students & university affiliates only, in Cannon Chapel
Fridays at 8pm: What Would Guan Yin Do - Buddhism in Modern Life through Exploring the Lotus Sutra, hosted by Georgia Buddhist Summer Camp in collaboration with Berkeley Buddhist Monastery / Dharma Realm Buddhist University
Register at http://www.georgiabuddhistcamp.com (Zoom only)
Sundays at 10am: Shambhala Atlanta virtual open house
atlanta.shambhala.org
Sundays at 11am: Guided Meditation with Drepung Loseling Monastery Atlanta, in person and online:
https://livestream.com/accounts/7116288
Online Live Buddhist Classes from around the Country in English:
Berkeley Buddhist Monastery goes online:
Morning and Evening Prayer, Mindful Recitation, Chanting of Mantras and Sutras, Zen Meditation, and Bowing Practices
Daily 8am - 10pm (Eastern) via YouTube Live (DharmaRealmLive) and Zoom
http://www.berkeleymonastery.org/
Chanting, Meditation, and Sutta Study
Wednesdays at 10pm (Eastern) , and
Saturdays at 1pm (Eastern) : How Do you apply the Dharma to This?!
via Zoom with American Buddhist bhikkuni (nuns) in the Theravada Buddhist (Pali-based) tradition from Karuna Buddhist Vihara in California
http://www.karunabv.org/
The Foundation of Buddhist Practice by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Venerable Thubten Chodron
Fridays at 9:15pm (Eastern) via Livestream
American Buddhist nun Ven. Thubten Chodron teaches Stages on the Path to Awakening (podcast downloads also available) in an online course developed with His Holiness the Dalai Lama
https://thubtenchodron.org/live/
Tibet House US has unlocked their video archives for free to all during the Covid-19 pandemic. This rich collection features a diversity of talks and topics from various speakers:
https://tibethouse.us/video-library/
Find links to more virtual classes and great webcast resources at
www.sfzen.org/virtualchurch
American Buddhist Songs - new release album Good Karma Music
http://dharmaradio.org/
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**[MeditateAtlanta.org ](http://www.georgiameditation.org/)**Meetup features regular and special events representing various traditions of Buddhist meditation throughout Atlanta, such as Zen, Tibetan Buddhism, Insight / Vipassana Meditation, and Mindfulness Practice. Drop in any week - newcomers welcome! All events below are free, in English, and open to beginners.
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[AtlantaBuddhism.org](http://georgiameditation.org/index.html) Upcoming Special Events (free!):
- Georgia Buddhist Scholarship -- for students and young adults, including cash prize for high school seniors, as well as awards for use at educational programs such as Georgia Buddhist Summer Camp or retreats at Dharma Realm Buddhist University.
- Mindfulness Meditation Retreat -- visit our website for latest retreat schedule!
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Upcoming events (4+)
See all- Chinese Buddhist Sunday Service: Buddha's Birthday Gratitude Medicine CeremonyDharma Jewel Monastery, Atlanta, GA
Zen Ceremony - mindful chanting and positive energy - Gratitude Liang Huang Repentance Buddhist Ceremony at Dharma Jewel Monastery in Atlanta
This Chinese Buddhist Sunday service is open to all:
Dharma Jewel Monastery (http://www.dharmajewel.us) will hold a Buddhist Ceremony on Sunday May 4 & June 15, 9:15 am to 12:30 pm. This ceremony reminds us to purify our mind and thus deepen our compassion and wisdom within. We sincerely invite everyone to attend this event - chanting of the liturgy, the Diamond of Prajna Paramita Sutra, is in Mandarin Chinese, with English transliteration and translation. A Grand Meal Offering before the Buddhas / Blessing & Memorial Service (chanting) and free vegetarian lunch follows. Bilingual instructions, all are welcome! New? Don't worry about following along the recitation, just come relax and enjoy the healing spiritual experience!
More about Chinese Buddhist ceremonies here:
https://dharmajewel.us/ceremony-introduction/Schedule:
9:15am: Seating
9:30am: Ceremony begins; Lamp Offering
9:50am: Chanting "The Universal Gateway of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva" (Guanyin Pusa - Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra)
10:50am: Dharma Talk (Bilingual English/Chinese)
11:30am: Grand Meal Offering before the Buddhas / Blessing & Memorial Service
Vegetarian lunch follows.Dharma Jewel Monastery
2550 Henderson Mill Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30345.
Phone: 770-939-5008
http://www.dharmajewel.usAlso at Dharma Jewel:
--> Beginner's Meditation Class! All invited, free consecutive weekly course, Tuesdays at 7pm for spring 2025. Come learn about and practice Zen meditation! Whether new or experienced in meditation, all are welcome.
--> Children's meditation and compassion class, great for ages 5 - 12. Sundays at 10am
--> Open guided Zen meditation, Sundays at 10am, all welcome to come any week: 4/20, 4/27, 5/25, 6/8, 6/22, 7/6, 8/3
--> Sunday services (Buddhist ceremony - mindful chanting), 9:15am on May 4 & June 15, 2025
--> Vegetarian cooking classes -- free and delicious! Check with Dharma Jewel Monastery for latest schedule.
All events are offered at no charge.
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More Information about the Diamond Sutra (Buddhist text):
"All conditioned phenomena
Are like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow,
Like dew or a flash of lightning;
Thus we shall perceive them."The Diamond Sutra is a teaching pointing at the wisdom of understanding ultimate reality. Buddhism is rooted in cause and effect, and thus is ultimately very methodical in understanding suffering and how to alleviate it. You can find talks on Mahayana Buddhist texts from Buddhist Text Translation Society at:
http://www.buddhisttexts.org
and
http://www.cttbusa.org/The actual sutra text translated into English is here by Chung Tai Zen Center:
http://sunnyvale.ctzen.org/wiki/dharma-gems/sutras-and-gathas/***
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- Chan (Zen) Meditation at Dharma Drum Atlanta4977 Dillards Mill Way, Duluth, GA
#### Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association Atlanta Chan Meditation Center
# In Person Chan (Zen) Retreats
Chan (Zen) meditation practice and study group discussion (bilingual English/Chinese), Sundays at Dharma Drum Atlanta
Beginners welcome! Please join us in using the method of Chan practice to relax your body, free your mind from vexations, and eventually attain liberation.
All are welcome to join.
10am - 12pm: Sitting meditation, walking meditation, 8-form moving meditation
Monk's House at 4977 Dillards Mill Way, Peachtree Corner, GA 30096
Free. We welcome your donations.
Atlanta Chan (Zen) Meditation Center Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association (DDMBA) is currently meeting at 4977 Dillards Mill Way, Peachtree Corner, GA 30096 (residential area, please do not block neighbors' driveways)
www.ddmbaatlanta.com - Basics of Meditation at Drepung Loseling Monastery AtlantaDrepung Loseling Monastery, Atlanta, GA
Drepung Loseling Monastery, meditation center and Tibetan Buddhist temple in Atlanta, hosts many events each week, IN PERSON AND Online via DLM's Facebook page, YouTube channel, and Vimeo Live (link below):
Every Sunday at 11am is an introductory session with brief guided meditation. Everyone is welcome. You can also watch live online, link below.
Drepung Loseling Monastery 2025 schedule (visit www.drepung.org for latest updates)
All welcome to these events:
- Guided Meditation, Sundays at 11am
(Chai Tea Social afterwards at noon on the first Sunday of the month)
- Medicine Buddha Practice, Tuesdays at 6pm
- Public Buddhist Teaching (talk by a monk), Tuesdays at 7pm
- Evening Prayers, Wednesdays at 7pm
- Protector Puja, Thursdays at 10am
- The Foundations Series Retreat and The Lamrim Series, monthly on SaturdaysMost events are free and open to the public, donations are welcome. Visit http://www.Drepung.org for more details.
Please find the link to the live webcast on Drepung's website, social media, or at https://vimeo.com/drepungloseling
Plus, weekdays: Compassion Meditation led by lay members through Emory Compassion Center CBCT
Everyone may join, no pre-requisites for the events listed above. As this is a temple, we recommend modest attire, but you may wear anything that is comfortable. We will take off our shoes to meditate. There is no charge, though donations are welcome.
Drepung Loseling is the Tibetan Buddhist center in Atlanta frequented by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and is dedicated to the study and preservation of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of wisdom and compassion. A center for the cultivation of both heart and intellect, it provides a sanctuary for the nurturance of inner peace and kindness, community understanding, and global healing. Drepung Loseling Monastery has a long history in Tibet and main monastery with over 3,000 monastics now in India, and is academically affiliated with Emory University.
More Atlanta meditation (http://www.georgiameditation.org) groups
- Medicine Buddha Puja at Drepung Loseling Monastery (In Person and Livestream)Drepung Loseling Monastery, Atlanta, GA
Medicine Buddha Puja (healing ceremony) will be in person at Drepung Loseling Monastery Atlanta and on Livestream (online streaming live) the first Tuesday of the month at 6pm.
Following this, the Public Buddhist Teaching will be EVERY Tuesday at 7pm.Join us physically or virtually at Drepung Loseling Monastery Atlanta, Tibetan Buddhist temple near Brookhaven.
This is a great service to pray for healing and the compassionate potential of all beings.
Drepung Loseling Monastery - Weekly free events open to all:
-- Guided Meditation, Sundays at 11am
-- Buddhist Prayer Service, Wednesdays at 7pm (in person only)
-- Protector Puja, Thursdays at 10am (in person only)
-- Public Buddhist Talk, Tuesdays at 7pm
-- Foundations Retreat, monthly on Saturdays (registration & fee required)Online link:
https://livestream.com/accounts/7116288Also, given coronavirus, there is a daily compassion meditation with Emory Compassion training, free but sign up at https://compassion.emory.edu/cbct-daily-practice.html
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The first Tuesday of the month, join us for a Medicine Buddha Practice at and a public Buddhist talk by a Tibetan Buddhist monk, at Drepung Loseling Monastery. (http://www.drepung.org)
New? Everyone is welcome. The Medicine Buddha Practice is a short session combining brief guided meditation, chanting of mantras, visualization, and Buddhist prayers. It helps promote individual, social, environmental and global healing. Please join this communal meditation to enhance healing and well-being for yourself, your friends and family members.
Everyone may join, no pre-requisites for the events listed above. As this is a temple, we recommend modest attire, but you may wear anything that is comfortable. We will take off our shoes to meditate. There is no charge, though donations are welcome.
Drepung Loseling Monastery is the authentic Tibetan Buddhist center in Atlanta supported by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and is dedicated to the study and preservation of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of wisdom and compassion. A center for the cultivation of both heart and intellect, it provides a sanctuary for the nurturance of inner peace and kindness, community understanding, and global healing. Drepung Loseling Monastery has a long history in Tibet with main monastery now in India, and is academically affiliated with Emory University.
www.drepung.org
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