The menu for the Chinese New Year Dinner will be vegetarian. As there are only 15 places available bookings for the dinner will be based on a first come first served basis. To book a place for the dinner please visit our Facebook Page. If you have any enquiries regarding this event please feel free to contact Tian Siong at tian.lim07@imperial.ac.uk.

Thus, Imperial College Buddhist Society will be organising a trip to the temple to join in the celebrations. We will be meeting at Oxford Circus Station on the 13^th February 2010 (Saturday) at 10:30 P.M. before making our way to London Fo Guang Shan Temple. The details of our trip are as follows:

Other than that, London Fo Guang Shan Temple will be organising events for the whole week from 13^th February 2010 until 28^th February 2010. The full schedule for all of the event’s are as follows:

13^th February 2010 – Saturday

14^th February 2010 – Sunday

15^th February 2010 – Monday

20^th February 2010 – Saturday to 21^st February 2010 – Sunday

28^th February 2010 – Sunday

Please feel free to participate in these events if you are interested. For any enquiries please don’t hesitate to contact Xiao Ting at xiao.ang08@imperial.ac.uk .

The map to the place is shown below:

The proposed schedule for the event are as follows:

The following are information about Jamyang buddhist Center, Kagyue Samye Dzong Buddhist Center and Lama Gelongma Zangmu.

Jamyang Buddhist Centre: http://www.jamyang.co.uk/
Kagyue Samye Dzong: http://london.samye.org/london/
Lama Gelongma Zangmu: http://london.samye.org/london/kagyu/teachers/lama_zangmo_pic.shtml

You can choose to come for the Dharma talk and temple visit or the dinner individually or come for both. For those who are comming for the dinner only please meet at Kennington tube station at 6:00 p.m.

For those who are comming for this event please RSVP through our Facebook site at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=189273175945 by Wednesday (2 December 2009) and anyone with any special request e.g. vegan , please inform us by Monday (30 November 2009). More information can be obtained from the Facebook site. If you have any enquiries please do not hesitate to contact Tian Siong at  tian.lim07@imperial.ac.uk.

The details of the event are as follows:

The maps of the meeting places are shown below.

Evelyn Gardens (Map) (11 a.m.)

Battersea Park (Map) (11:30 a.m.)

Please note that there is a mistake in the previous email stating that this event is on 14th November 2009. The date of this event is 21st November 2009 NOT 14th November 2009 as stated there. We sincerly apologise for the mistake.

Those who are intrested in comming are encouraged to bring some food to share with others.

If there are any enquiries regarding this event kindly contact Rong Kai at 07521706258.

that we will be organising a trip to Buddhapadipa Temple to celebrate

Loy Krathong Festival. The details are as follows:

We will be meeting at SouthKensington Station at 10:30 am and make our way there on Sunday (1 November 2009). Everybody is invited to come but please confirm with us if yourcomming through our Facebook

page or emailling Tian Siong.

We would like to give some brief information about the festival which as as follows:

For more details about the event please visit our Facebook page. Thank you and have a great week ahead.

The tea session will be acasual ‘get to know each other’ session and a brief introduction to the Buddhist Society. Members and people who wants to know more about Buddhism are invited to attend this tea session. The details for the tea session are as follows:

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Stress Management

A Dharma talk by Venerable Ajahn Khemadhammo on stress management.

Gain enlightenment on stress management from a buddhist perspective.

Date : 20 February 09

Time : 6.30 – 9.30 pm

Venue : 121 & 122,

                             Sir Alexander Fleming,

                              Imperial College London

    (map)

Email exco0809 [at] icbuddhist [dot] co [dot] uk for more information.

Below is a short biography of our guest speaker.

“Ajahn Khemadhammo, OBE (alternatively Chao Khun Bhavanavitayt or Achaan Khemadhammo, occasionally with honorific titles Luang Por and Phra) is a teacher of Theravada Buddhism. He was born in England in 1944. After training and practising as a professional actor for some years, in 1971 he travelled to Thailand via the Buddhist holy places in India. In December 1971 in Bangkok, he became a novice monk and about a month later moved to Ubon to stay with Ajahn Chah at Wat Nong Pah Pong. On the day before Vesakha Puja of that year, 1972, he received upasampada as a bhikkhu.

In 1977, Venerable Khemadhammo returned to the U.K. and, after staying in London and Birmingham, set up a small monastery on the Isle of Wight. In 1984, at the invitation of a group of Buddhist meditators that he had been visiting monthly for some years, he moved to Banner Hill near Kenilworth and formed the Buddha-Dhamma Fellowship. In 1985, he moved to his current residence, the Forest Hermitage, a property in Warwickshire; in 1987, with considerable help from devotees in Thailand, this land was purchased by the Buddha-Dhamma Fellowship. A stupa was built there in 1988, known as the ‘English Shwe Dagon’.

Ajahn Khemadhammo began Buddhist prison chaplaincy work in 1977. In 1985, with the help of others, Angulimala, the Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy was launched with him as its Spiritual Director.

Presently, Ajahn Khemadhammo lives with another monk, continuing to visit prisons and teaching meditation.

Ajahn Khemadhammo was appointed an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, June 2003 for ’services to prisoners’. [1] In December 2004, on the birthday of the King of Thailand, he was made a Chao Khun with the ecclesiastical title of Phra Bhavanavitayt; he was only the second foreign-born monk to receive such an honour.”

meditation session followed by a short discussion.

Time : 7.00 – 8.00 pm

Venue : Chaplaincy, Beit Quad (directions)

Date : 22 January 09 (Thursday)

Light refreshment and tea will be provided.

Hope to see you there