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Emory University community members are invited each Thursday at 6pm for meditation with Emory Buddhist Club while school is in session! Also check out other meditation groups around Atlanta at [www.AtlantaBuddhism.org ](http://www.AtlantaBuddhism.org)
Join our email list to get updates, write info@georgiameditation.org or visit our website to sign up.
To join the streaming, please go to https://emory.zoom.us/j/515025945 , still Thursdays at 6pm. You can also find the Zoom link pinned to the top of our Facebook page. Our college students Buddhist organization page is [BuddhistClub.org](https://buddhistclub.org/)
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A sequential semester-long guided Beginner's Zen meditation and Introduction to Buddhism course is offered at no charge at nearby Dharma Jewel Monastery. This cumulative course is once a week for 4 months. A separate class is offered for children, as well as in Chinese. www.DharmaJewel.US
Open Guided Meditation (one hour), select Sundays at 10am!
Free, all welcome to come any week!
2026 dates: 4/19, 5/3, 5/24, 5/31
at Dharma Jewel Monastery
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Meditation helps us calm our minds, focus, and develop insight into understand ultimate reality. Emory Buddhist Club welcomes everyone each Thursday at 6pm for guided meditation, discussion, and tea. We are open to all Emory affiliates who are interested in mindfulness, Zen, meditation, and/or Buddhism! Our teachers rotate each week and are typically monks or nuns coming from the greater Atlanta Georgia community and sometimes even from around the country and world!

Another nearby meditation center, Drepung Loseling Monastery (academic affiliate of Emory University), offers events open to the general public and free every week: Tuesdays nights is a Medicine Buddha Prayer Service and a public Buddhist teaching; and Sundays at 11am is introduction to meditation. www.Drepung.org
We are led by invited teachers from Atlanta Buddhist groups found at www.AtlantaBuddhism.org such as Chung Tai Chan Monastery branch temple Dharma Jewel Monastery - Atlanta Zen Meditation Center, Georgia Buddhist Vihara - Vipassana Meditation Center, **Kim Cang Monastery - **Mindfulness Meditation Society, Drepung Loseling Monastery - Atlanta Tibetan Buddhist Center, Buddhanara Temple - Gwinnett County meditation center, Jun Dung Sa Temple - Korean Buddhist monastery in Lilburn, Dharma Drum Mountain Buddhist Association and Tallahassee Chan Center, and more. Also a proud sponsor of #MeditateAtlanta!
Upcoming events
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Meditation and Talk: Joy and Equanimity, with Sravasti Abbey Buddhist nuns
Drepung Loseling Monastery, 1781 Dresden Dr NE, Atlanta, GA, USSpecial Guest Nuns from Sravasti Abbey to visit Atlanta in May
- Meditation and Talk on Compassion: May 6 at 7:30pm with Grant Park Meditation at Chua Quang Minh Atlanta
- Meditation and Talk on Equanimity: May 7 at 7pm at Drepung Loseling Monastery Atlanta
- Georgia Buddhist Camp: May 8 - 10 near Atlanta
AtlantaBuddhism.org is pleased to welcome two charismatic American nuns (including former Atlanta resident and Agnes Scott College professor) coming to us from Sravasti Abbey, a Buddhist monastery in the Tibetan tradition in the Pacific Northwest.
Venerable Thubten Damcho, a Princeton University graduate, originally hails from Singapore and has led teachings throughout the world with Venerable Thubten Chodron of Sravasti Abbey.
Venerable Thubten Rinchen, a Stanford University graduate who holds a doctorate in physics, may be familiar as she used to attend teachings at Drepung Loseling right here in Atlanta!Everyone is welcome to practice mindfulness and feel the joy in our hearts.
Wednesday May 6 at 7:30pm: Venerables Thubten Damcho and Thubten Rinchen will lead guided meditation and Dharma talk on cultivating love and compassion in our busy lives! Free, at Chua Quang Minh / Grant Park Meditation
Details at grantparkmeditation.org/classesThursday May 7 at 7pm: The nuns will give a talk Thursday night at Drepung Loseling Monastery near Brookhaven, see below.
Friday - Sunday May 8 - 10: They will help lead the Georgia Buddhist Camp. You can join the camp by registering on our website!
Beyond Bias: The Path of Joy & Equanimity
by Venerables Thubten Damcho & Thubten Rinchen
Thursday, May 7, 2026 • 7:00 pm at Drepung Loseling Monastery AtlantaHow do we navigate a complex world with the steady heart of a bodhisattva? While love and compassion are the familiar gateways, Joy and Equanimity are the pillars that stabilize a long-term practice. Join visiting nuns Venerables Thubten Damcho and Thubten Rinchen as they lead an exploration into the more nuanced pair of these “Four Abodes”: Empathic Joy and Equanimity.
We will discuss how to move past the subtle biases of “us vs. them” and how to cultivate a joy that isn’t dependent on our own personal gains. This evening is designed to help you deepen your existing practice, moving from intellectual understanding to a lived experience of a balanced, unshakable mind.All welcome. Free, but if able a donation is suggested.
https://www.drepung.org/Changing/Changingmenu/Sravasti-Nuns-2026.htm1 attendee
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