Past Events

Join us for a week of Guan Yin recitation, meditation, service, and self-reflection immersed in a spiritual community at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. This is a chance to disconnect from…

Please join us at Redwood Vihara for our  Community Day!  It will be a day of mindfulness and friendship as well as working together clearing the forest of brush and small branches…

As a method that has been practiced for thousands of years, reciting Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s name opens the door to the innate, everlasting refuge within. Invoked in times of danger and uncertainty,…

On June 21, we will have one of the most significant events of the year at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas: Ven. Master Hsuan Hua’s Nirvana Day. This commemoration draws many visitors…

Join us for the Buddha’s Birthday at Berkeley Buddhist Monastery! In this ceremony, we bathe the baby Shakyamuni Buddha as we also reflect on purifying our own Buddha-nature. This is a chance…

How do we connect to a sustainable joy in our hearts? Come spend a day in the redwoods building trails outside and exploring a deeper path within. Through simple jobs such as…

In meditation, we often enter stillness through the breath or awareness of the body. In this immersion, we explore another gateway: the sense of taste. By slowly tasting chocolate, we learn to…

How deeply do we listen—to others, to ourselves, and to the living world around us? In an age of constant connection, many of us still feel unseen, unheard, or alone. What would…

At Stanford University, students sometimes joke about Duck Syndrome: calm and confident on the surface, paddling furiously underneath. We’re expected to be brilliant, productive, and somehow effortless at the same time. But…