Chow Mein Supper is this Saturday, October 22!
We still have a few tickets left. For purchase please contact Dan at 403-239-8655 or dan37mcc@gmail.com
Frozen gyozas and mochi for sale
Name your price Japanese items table
Calgary Buddhist Temple Blog
Virtual Book Club this Fall – details
The LDC (Living Dharma Centre) is starting a Virtual Book Club this fall.
We invite interested people to read a specific book chosen every three months and sign up for email participation and discussion.
For our first selection of our new book club, we have chosen two titles.
Both are excellent introductions to Shin Buddhism and are easily understandable.
These books are available through Chapters Indigo and Amazon.
To start up our Virtual Book Club, our first titles for the month of September, October and November are:
1) River of Fire, River of Water By Taitetsu Unno
Published in 1998 and speaks for itself as being a classic in Shin Buddhism literature. Written by the wonderful teacher and Shin Scholar, Tai Unno, if you have not already read it, we encourage you to!
2) Call of the Infinite By John Paraskevopoulos
A rare and lovely thing: a succinct treatment in 96 pages of the major concerns of Shin faith and life which manages to be compelling for all its brevity. Author John Paraskevopoulos is an Australian convert who is also a Shin priest.
He has the marvellous ability to anticipate a reader’s questions and answer them in straightforward fashion in a clear, lively prose.
Published in 2009 and the following are a few comments made by people who have read it:
Call of the Infinite is “I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend CALL OF THE INFINITE to one who has no previous background in Shin Buddhism. I feel confident that such a reader could then go on to the more fully-orbed works of such established writers as Alfred Bloom, Dennis Hirota, Kenneth Tanaka, and Taitetsu Unno. “-Peter M. Schogol
“This is a deeply thoughtful work and is a mature and useful guide for the spiritually hungry or perplexed. It is brief, but not epigramic; each paragraph gives the reader plenty to contemplate, but the meaning is always clear. The book is written in beautifully constructed English – not something one can take for granted in any published work. It is also cleverly and clearly structured.”- M.F. Healsmith
Gyoza Making On Saturday, Sept 19 at the Temple – pics!
On Saturday, 19 of us got together to make gyozas.
In just three hours we chopped, mixed, and folded 1008 gyozas (84 dozen)!
We will be selling them at the Chow Mein supper on Saturday, October 22, which is taking place at the temple.
With so many volunteers, not only did we get it done fast, we all had fun visiting with each other.
I made some as soon as I got home and got rave reviews from my family.
Thanks Jackie and Yuko for coordinating, and thank you volunteers for coming out!
Mickey Ikuta
Actual pics of Gyoza made and cooked (webmaster: nummy!):
Chow Mein and ribs dinner – Sat, Oct 22 at the Temple – times are in the Attached poster
Join us for our fall Chow Mein supper on Saturday, October 22.
Bring your friends and family and enjoy the sweet & sour ribs and chow mein dinner and also check out our sales tables.
Eat-in and take-out options are available.
For tickets, please contact Dan at 403-239-8655 or dan37mcc@gmail.com.
Please click on the poster for more information.
Temple Gyoza Making – Saturday Sept 17th 9am at the Temple
One of the ways you can join the Temple community is by getting to know people in small groups like this with a short timeframe of participation (everyone has busy lives!).
Hello Calgary Buddhist Temple friends, We hope you all had a wonderful summer! As you may know, the Temple is organizing a fundraising dinner in October and the menu includes homemade gyoza. We would like to ask some volunteers to help us make the gyozas on Saturday, September 17th from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. Thank you always for your support! The Temple Fundraising Committee Date: 09/17/2016 (Sat.)Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm ESTLocation: Calgary Buddhist Temple Kitchen
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New Capital Campaign Brochure and Pledge form – Fall 2016
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the CBT Capital Campaign. Since the spring of 2014, we have raised over $800,000 of or $1,000,000 goal through pledges, donations and fundraising activities. We are still actively fundraising to pay off the remaining portion of our debt and have events planned for the fall. We have also put together an updated Capital Campaign brochure which is available for download both here and as a printed brochure at the temple. Thank you once again for your continued support.