On April 12, 2015, IBMC held its annual celebration of Vesak, or the Buddha's birthday, which is called Hanamatsuri in Japan. The event commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha. The exact date of Vesak varies according to different Buddhist traditions in different countries.
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IBMC held its annual celebration of the lunar new year on Sunday, March 1, 2015. There was a special blessing ceremony and a vegetarian lunch following the usual Sunday service. On Sunday, February 22, 2015, IBMC held a special Sunday service to remember the life of Ven. Karuna Dharma, the former Abbess of IBMC and a prominent American Buddhist nun, who passed away exactly one year ago on February 22, 2014. Venerable Sugatananda visited IBMC as part of his trip to the United States and gave a Dharma talk on February 15, 2015. Click here to listen to the audio recording of his talk. Ven. Sugatananda underwent three years of intensive Buddhist training under one of the great Buddhist scholars of modern times, the late Most Ven. Dr. Acharya Buddharakkhita. He edited and published books written by the Ven. Acharya and became editor of monthly Buddhist magazine DHAMMA, which he continues to edit today. Later he became Chairman of Mahabodhi Center for Theravada Buddhist Studies, which is the only institution in India to offer B.A. and M.A. degree courses in Theravada Buddhism. He has given several public talks and conducted meditation programs both for people from India and the West.  Thank you to everyone who joined us on an unusually cold evening in Los Angeles for our annual New Year's Eve meditation and helped us to ring our temple bell to bring in 2015.
Limited guest parking is now available at IBMC. As always, visitors are welcome to find street parking. If you can't find a parking spot, feel free to enter through the alley behind IBMC and look for the lotus flower symbol on the gate. We'll have the gate open on Sunday mornings for our Sunday service guests from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. For meditation sessions on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday nights, please contact us at (213) 384-0850 or email Rev. Kusala before your arrival. We'll open the gate for you. On Sunday, September 28, 2014, IBMC held a refuge and five-precepts ceremony for Samantha Kinkaid. She took the Buddhist name 'Chintamani' (Wish Fulfilling Jewel) as an Upāsikā. The first two steps in the process of becoming a lay disciple of the Buddha are going for refuge and accepting the five precepts. IBMC offers the ceremony for Buddhist laypeople/householders at the discretion of a monk, nun or Dharma teacher. |
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