Name: Sunday Open Meditation: Celebrating Buddha’s Birthday
Start: 2026-05-31T10:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-31T12:00:00-07:00
Location: Nalanda West

Celebrate Saka Dawa (Buddha Shakyamuni’s birthday) with Nalandabodhi Seattle! On the full moon, the birth, enlightenment, first teaching, and parinirvana of Buddha Shakyamuni are commemorated. Please join us!

**SCHEDULE**
10:00–12:00p Chanting, Meditation, Teachings on the Buddha’s Life by Mitra Tyler
12:00–1:00p Community Potluck & Birthday Cake

REGISTRATION
Please register using [this link](https://seattle.nalandabodhi.org/events/sunday-open-meditation-celebrating-saka-dawa/).

Nalandabodhi Seattle offers dharma teachings at no cost, but please consider making a donation if you are able.

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Mitra Tyler was born in Nova Scotia, Canada. He has been engaged in the study and practice of Buddhism since 1996, becoming a student of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche two years later. He began studying the Tibetan language in 1997, and became an oral interpreter and textual translator for Nitartha Institute and Nalandabodhi in 2000.

Tyler joined the faculty of [Nitartha Institute](https://nitarthainstitute.org/) in 2003 and was appointed as a senior teacher in Nalandabodhi in 2005. He has served as an oral interpreter for lineage-holding masters of the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. Tyler enjoys teaching on such topics as the four immeasurables, and exploring how the great Buddhist forebears inspire and inform life in the 21st century.

A musician and singer, he has participated in the creation of several ‘melodized’ liturgies and ‘dharma songs.’ Tyler is the father of an amazing daughter and lives in Seattle, Washington.

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**About the “Mitra” title:** In 2005, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche empowered a group of his long-time students to be senior teachers of Nalandabodhi. He gave each of them the title Mitra, which is drawn from the Sanskrit term Kalyanamitra, “spiritual friend.” The Mitras guide Nalandabodhi’s three paths of [Study, Meditation, and Mindful Activity](https://nalandabodhi.org/path/) and teach throughout the world.

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