Buddha Birthday Ceremony: Chinese Buddhist Sunday Service

Zen Ceremony - mindful chanting and positive energy - Buddha's Birthday Bathing 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 April 26, May 17, and June 14, 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.us

Also at Dharma Jewel:

--> Beginner's Meditation Class! All invited, free consecutive weekly course, next will be summer 2026. 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: May 3, May 24, May 31

--> Sunday services (Buddhist ceremony - mindful chanting), 9:15am on 4/26, 5/17, 6/14

--> 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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