Posts Categorized: Local

2025 Annual Temple Spring Clean Up

On Sunday April 27, we will be having our Annual Spring Clean Up at the temple. Sensei is away so we’ll gather and do some meditative temple cleaning together.  Please join us! Note: START TIME IS 10:30 am! We are looking for volunteers to assist as

Gyoza Making / Fundraiser

Our first fundraising event of 2025 will be on Saturday, May 3rd from 8:30am-12:30pm at the Temple. Please join us for a morning of laughter, stories and dumpling folding at our annual gyoza making event. Together, we finely chop and create delicious gyoza to sell

Road Closure

1 Avenue at 6 Street NE – road running along the front of the Temple (from the city of Calgary website).  FROM: Monday, March 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM TO: Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 0:00 am (updated Apr 21) 1 AV NE closed between Edmonton

Hamamatsuri – Sunday, April 6

According to our tradition, the historical Buddha, Sakyamuni, was born in Lumbini Garden in Nepal on April 8, 566 B.C. He was born the son of King Suddohana and Queen Maya. There are many flowery descriptions of the scene at his birth, including celestial birds

April Lecture Series – Moral Conduct

We are grateful to have Robert Sensei lead a lecture series in April: Exploring the Buddhist view of Moral Conduct by referencing Right Speech, Right Action, and Right Livelihood from the Eightfold Path as a guide. This will be held on Tuesdays: April 8, 15, 22

The War Between Us

The Calgary Buddhist Temple is honored to present a special screening of The War Between Us, a thought-provoking film that follows the journey of a Japanese-Canadian family who are forcibly displaced and interned as enemy aliens in British Columbia during World War II.  Movie starts at

Meditation Retreat

This half-day meditation retreat will be at the temple on Saturday, March 8th from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm with the doors to the temple opening at 8:40 am.   There is no cost to the Half-Day Retreat but a small donation is always appreciated to

Spring Ikebana Class

March 8, 22, April 5 and 19, May 3 || 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm The 5 classes are a series and the cost is $250 total including flower material and instruction for Temple members or $300 for non-members. No refunds for missed classes. Students

Learn About the Temple

Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held on Sunday, April 13 and begin shortly after service. We will go over the temple finances, talk about events/highlights of the past year, discuss and vote on key issues and elect a new Board of Directors. The

Japanese Calligraphy

Would you like to experience Japanese calligraphy, and try for yourself this popular and beautiful part of Japanese art and culture? The Calgary Buddhist Temple Sangha Engagement will be hosting a Japanese Calligraphy workshop on Sunday, March 23 from 2-4:00pm with a fully qualified Master