Calgary Buddhist Temple Blog

Matinee at the Temple

Monday, April 17, 2023
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Join us for an afternoon movie matinee on Saturday, June 17th at 2:00pm!  The Calgary Buddhist Temple is pleased to host a FREE showing of “Sleeping Tigers: The Asahi Baseball Story” presented by High Summitt Immigration. Everyone is welcome! 

Discussion to follow and then stick around to watch “Our Beloved Otera” from 2009 which is a tribute to the Raymond Buddhist Temple narrated by Reyko Nishiyama and Harry Sugimoto. It was the first Buddhist temple established in Alberta and functioned until 2006.

Register by going to https://bit.ly/Matinee-17Jun23.

Sleeping Tigers is a feature-length documentary, made in 2003, tells the story of the Asahi baseball team. This team became a symbol of the Japanese Canadian struggle for equality and respect, and despite being disbanded and interned, left a legacy of inspiration for future generations of all Canadians. This remarkable story is told with a combination of archival footage, interviews, and dramatic re-enactments.

Light refreshments will generously be provided by a grant from the Calgary Nikkei Cultural Fund and the Calgary Japanese Community Association. Let’s come together and make this afternoon educational, engaging and enjoyable for all!

 

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Futomaki Workshop

Tuesday, April 11, 2023
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Come join the Sangha at the Temple on Saturday, May 27th at 2pm for a demonstration on how to make Futomaki which is a rolled sushi characterized by its large size and filled with a number of different ingredients. You’ll learn about the types of things that can go inside this sushi as well as how to roll the maki.

The cost is $12 (temple member) and $17 (non-temple member) – taxes and event service fee included. LIMITED registration – open to the first 10 people who register and pay online. Also included in the cost is that each participant will make one futomaki that they can take home to enjoy!

Green tea and an opportunity to get to know each other will follow.

Sign up before the workshop is full!

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Hanamatsuri

Tuesday, April 11, 2023
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The Calgary Buddhist Temple will be holding the annual Hanamatsuri Service on Sunday, April 16 – Hanamatsuri is in recognition of the birth of Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha). The service starts at 10:00 am with lunch to follow. Everyone is welcome to join in the chow mein, rice and beverages will be made at the temple and it’s always nice to have contributions brought from our generous sangha as well. 

Please sign up to bring your contribution for the lunch.

Thank you!

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Sunday Services In-Person & Online

Friday, March 10, 2023
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It is our pleasure to offer our Sunday Service in-person and via live-streaming – both start at 10:00am (MST). We look forward to you joining us, and everyone is welcome! 

Online live-streaming is from our Facebook group Calgary Buddhist Temple, and the relevant sections from our service book can be found here approximately one day prior:

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“Stamp” out Waste

Sunday, February 19, 2023
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with the JSBTC WF (Women’s Federation). Save the Children-Canada collects used postage stamps for resale to dealers and collectors. Money raised by this method of fundraising is used to help provide a better life and a brighter future for children around the world and in Canada.

The JSBTC Women’s Federation takes ALL stamps, foreign and Canadian.  Please remember to put your stamps in the container at the entrance to the Temple by April 9th as they will be taken to the next WF Annual Meeting in Steveston for national consolidation.

These stamps are sold to stamp collectors by the stamp store so the condition of the stamps is important!Acceptable and not acceptable stamps

  • Please cut with scissors (do not tear!!) and leave a 1/3 to 1/2 inch border around the stamp.
  • Stamps with postmarks showing the location and date are worth more so please cut around the postmark. Leave multiple stamps together.
  • If you have a postcard with the postmark showing the date and location, please turn in the whole postcard – do not cut it.
  • If it does not show the town or city, just trim around the stamp with border as above.
  • Stamps without enough border trim and machine generated business postage are not usable.

 

Thank you!

 

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JSBTC WF Dana Day

Sunday, February 19, 2023
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On Sunday, Mar 26, this is the special day held annually when all donations made on this particular day will go to the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Temples of Canada (JSBTC) Women’s Federation (WF) Dana Day. These donations are consolidated with Temples across Canada and are directed specifically to national organization(s) promoting social welfare. 

For the past three years, due to COVID, the Calgary WF Dana Day donations went to support local organizations such as Rocky Mountain Adaptive and the Canadian Mental Health Association but things are slowly returning to normal.

When sending an eTransfer, it can be made to calgarybuddhisttemple@gmail.com and it is important to include in the ‘Message:’ field: “2023 WF Dana Day”.

Cash or cheques can be made out to the Calgary Buddhist Temple and left in the temple donation box with clear identification that it is a “2023 WF Dana donation”. 

“Dana” is giving without thought of receiving something in return. The JSBTC Women’s Federation sincerely thank everyone who think of the challenges of others before themselves.

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