Links to Sites of Related Interest
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Chicago & Upper Great Lakes Region
Bright Dawn Home Spread Meditation Retreat Center
Great Plains Zen Center
Heartland Sangha
Kubose Dharma Legacy
Buddhist Council of the Midwest Member Temples
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Elsewhere (or Nowhere in Particular)
Access to Insight (compendium of sutras and commentaries from the Theravadin tradition)
BuddhaNet
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Ekoji Buddhist Temple, Virginia
Collective Dharma Insight (bilingual English-Spanish engaged Buddhism)
Living Dharma website of West Covina Buddhist Temple
Numata Center Buddhist Canon Translation Project
Meditation HQ: categorized resource directory for everything about meditation.
Quiet Mountain Tibetan Buddhist Listings
Real World Buddhism
Sangha Yahoogroup, an international, pan-denominational English language discussion group with over 800 members, founded in 1998.
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
What Do You Think, My Friend?
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| Welcome to the Buddhist Temple of Chicago (BTC)
- Office hours: 10am-4pm weekdays.
- English language services: 11:00 a.m.
- Shotsuki Hoyo (monthly memorial) services, USUALLY the 1st Sunday of each month (Please call 773-334-4661 to confirm).
- No Services Sunday before Labor Day
- Open discussion group after services 2nd Sunday of the month.
- Guest Speaker Series, usually the 3rd Sunday of the month.
- Japanese language services: 1:00 p.m., usually 1st Sunday each month (Please call 773-334-4661 to confirm), also
- New Year’s Day (joint service at 11am, followed by Japanese buffet and sake toast)
- Spring O-Higan (followed by lunch--two seatings)
- Hana Matsuri (joint service at 11am, followed by lunch)
- O-Bon (followed by lunch--two seatings)
- Fall O-Higan (followed by lunch--two seatings)
- BTC Anniversary (Sunday closest to October 8, joint service at 11am, followed by lunch)
- Ho-on-ko (Sunday after Thanksgiving, followed by lunch--two seatings)
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Temple Organizations and Affiliates
Additonal information is also available at the Temple or via e-mail at info@budtempchi.org.
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Activities of Other Organizations at BTC- American Buddhist Association (ABA) - an independent organization, founded by Rev. Gyomay Kubose, whose purpose is to study and make known the principles of Buddhism and to encourage the understanding and appreciation of those principles. The ABA co-sponsors with Bright Dawn Homespread the Zazen (sitting meditation) at BTC:
- May-October, 1st and 3rd Sundays at 9 a.m.
- November-April All Thursday evenings:
7:00pm to 7:30 - Introduction: Basics and review for beginners
7:30 - Opening sitting Zen
8:00 - Teaching book review: The Joy of Living by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
8:45 - Closing sitting Zen
- November-April All Sunday mornings: 8:30am to 9:00 - Introduction: Basics and review for beginners
9:00 - Sitting Zen
9:20 - Walking / Moving Zen
9:40 - Sitting Zen
10:00 - Dharma Talk
10:15 - Tea, Social, Refreshments
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