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  • Archive for the NYC Buddhist News Category


    What a Great Day!

    Published February 6th, 2010

    Brooklyn Zen Center has now completely moved to its new space at 505 Carroll Street today and formally opened our Boundless Mind Temple at the new location. Many expressed amazement, joy, gratitude and exhaustion after an incredible effort to bring this new place of practice into the world. Seeing us all together today sitting, chanting, [...]

    Upper Manhattan Sitting Group Forming!

    Published January 3rd, 2010

    Paul Brantley is organizing a sitting group in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi and affiliated with Brooklyn Zen Center in northern Manhattan. We are very excited as the new Morningside Heights-based sitting group will support those who wish to practice in our lineage and attend events and retreats with visiting teachers, but live too [...]

    JMP on Shambhala Sun’s Blog

    Published January 2nd, 2010

    Check out the piece at Shambhala Sun’s blog on the Jazz Mindfulness Program led by Adam Bernstein at Brooklyn Zen Center.
    New York City’s teenagers now have a really fun reason to be mindful after school.  And their parents may be pleased to learn that this activity doesn’t require a video screen, a cellphone, an iPhone [...]

    The Walls Start Today!

    Published November 18th, 2009

    Yes, it’s true. After a long wait and rather circuitous path laden with stops, starts, surprises and further gifts, a delivery of sheet rock will be raised and passed through the tall, bright windows of 505 Carroll Street today! After delivery, the contractors will snap out the lines for exact placement and begin framing the [...]

    Walking Meditation across the Brooklyn Bridge

    Published October 27th, 2009

    Please join us in a mindful walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, bringing our attention to our many traditions of mindfulness and meditation, our often busy urban lives and environment, and our own deeply awake minds.
    On Thursday, October 29, 2009, at 7pm, meet at the Manhattan entrance, across the street from City Hall Park at Park [...]

    Norman Fischer in Conversation with Meredith Monk

    Published September 23rd, 2009

    I wanted to let you all know about an interesting upcoming event featuring Zen teacher and poet Norman Fischer and the composer and performer Meredith Monk (pictured at left) that will be taking place at Poets House in New York City on October 6th. Here is the event listing from the Poets House website:
    Tuesday, October [...]

    Buddhist Contemplative Care In NYC

    Published June 24th, 2009

    Here is a recent article from the LA Times about a group of Buddhist chaplains at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. According to the article, there are over twenty Buddhist chaplains or chaplains-in-training at Beth Israel, more than in any other hospital chaplaincy program. The large Buddhist presence there grew largely out [...]

    Zen Buddhist Counselor Helps Patients Face Death

    Published April 1st, 2009

    This linked article is about Issan Koyama, a Zen Buddhist Priest  and Riverdale pastoral counselor for Continuum Hospice Care. Reverend Koyama counsels those near death in the Bronx and Manhattan. Reverend Koyama began his chaplaincy work at Hartford Street, a San Francisco Zen Center-affiliated center in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco.
    Today he lives on [...]

    Columbia University Talks on Buddhist Philosophy

    Published December 12th, 2008

    For the philosophically inclined among us, there is an ongoing series of talks, entitled Ethics Across Traditions, held by The Columbia Society of Comparative Philosophy at Columbia University. A few of the talks included are “The Incompatibility of Two Conceptions: Dependent Origination and Emptiness in the Mulamadhyamakakarika,” ”Philosophical Problems from Nagarjuna’s Vigrahavyavartani“ (tonight), and “Buddhism and Free Will.” Check out the schedule here. Maybe some [...]

    Film: The Gatekeeper of Enmyoin

    Published September 24th, 2008

    At 6:30pm on October 1st and 2nd, The Vilcek Foundation will be holding two screenings of The Gatekeeper of Enmyoin, a film about a 95-year-old, female Buddhist priest in Japan. A synopsis of the story follows:
    Teijun Ogawa, a proud and rare niso (female priest) of Japanese Shingon Buddhist Sect, dies after telling her story to [...]

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