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1) establish & maintain a Buddhist Institute,
2) help sentient beings, 3) support our community.

07/18/2026

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12/08/2024

Happy Bodhi Day!!
May the light of wisdom illuminate our paths, leading us toward peace, harmony, and kindness in all that we do.
May we all awaken to the boundless potential of our true nature and extend compassion to all beings.
Namu Shaka Nyorai! 南無釈迦如来

12/06/2024

For those of you near our temple in Cobb, California, we will be celebrating Bodhi Day (Shaka Jodo-e) on Saturday, December 7th, starting at 9am.

This is our annual celebration of Siddhartha Gautama's awakening.

For more information, please see our calendar: https://caltendai.org/etn/bodhi-day/

For those of you celebrating at home, Bodhi Day officially falls on Sunday, December 8th.

Namu Shaka Nyorai! 南無釈迦如来

11/28/2024

May all beings feel the magic of gratitude today and every day 🙏

11/03/2024

May all beings choose joy🙏

10/10/2024

Setting an intention for today to practice dana paramita in a deep way. Looking for how generosity shows up, the opportunities to practice or the resistance to practice and embracing gratitude for all of it 🙏 may all beings be well

09/23/2024

Nomadic daily practice while enjoying the cooler temps in the Arizona high country🙏

08/27/2024

We are so happy to be a part of this event.

08/13/2022

In 1956, a metal drum containing nearly two thousand stones was unearthed at the former Heart Mountain concentration camp's cemetery. The meaning and purpose of these stones remained a complete mystery until 2001 when a team of scholars examining the stones realized that some of the characters written on them could be combined to form Buddhist terms. Could they be part of a sutra or sacred Buddhist text? Using computational analysis, the research group found the first six volumes of the Lotus Sutra perfectly matched what were known as the "Heart Mountain Mystery Stones."

During the wartime period, it was made clear to the Japanese American community that goods made in Japan or featuring Japanese script could potentially be used to prove their disloyalty. Many families burned or buried such items in the weeks and months leading up to incarceration. When they arrived at the so-called Assembly Centers, they discovered that their fears had not been unfounded; anything written in Japanese, including collections of poetry and Buddhist sutras, were confiscated by the US Army as contraband.

The fact that the sutra stones were very nearly lost to time and history is itself a lesson. Confronted by hostility, ignorance, and indifference, the Heart Mountain Sutra Stones nevertheless survived, testament to the persistence and resilience of faith in the camps.

You can see the Heart Mountain Sutra Stones on view in the exhibition, "Sutra and Bible: Faith and the Japanese American World War II Incarceration" at JANM!

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15362 Shasta Road
Cobb, CA
95426

Telephone

+17073554477

Website

https://caltendai.org/

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