Great River Tendai Sangha

07/19/2025

🪷Enjoy the vast blooms of Lotus flowers and celebration outdoors with us at at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens national park in DC, activities for all ages!🪷Tips: bring water to stay hydrated, pack a lunch, wear sunscreen and hat for shade, fully charge your phone or camera for snapping photos, meet Dharma friends there! Plenty of chairs to sit at the stage shows, and picnic tables are in the shade.🪷 Today Sat 19 July 2025 festival program includes guided Yoga Nidra meditation and journaling, multi Asian (Burmese, Thai, Cambodian, Chinese, Sri Lankan, Korean) cultural dance showcases, Korean samulnori, Ethiopian dance lessons, live Latin music and dancing🪷

🗓️ Mark your calendars! 🗓️

Do you enjoy looking at beautiful flowers? Have you been itching to see live singing and dancing? Are your kids in need of an outdoors activity? 🎵

Our Lotus and Water Lily Festival will provide the remedy to all these desires, and more! 🪷 Join us on Friday, July 18th through Sunday, July 20th from 10 am to 8 pm for a weekend of celebrating nature through cultural performances and programming. 🌺🌸

Our rangers will be present every hour of the day to lead children’s activities, guide historical tours, and answer questions. 🤩 Come with your cameras, binoculars, and water bottles ready - we cannot wait to welcome you to the parks! 🤗

Our partner non-profit, Friends of Kenilworth, will be assisting us this weekend. Check out their website here: https://kenaqgardens.org/

For more information about the festival, check out our website at: go.nps.gov/lotusfestival

12/11/2024

Special event TODAY featuring Tendai-shu at Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan -- a few tickets are left! ⛰

Discover the profound artistic, spiritual, and cultural legacy of Mount Hiei Enryaku-ji, a UNESCO World Heritage site and often called the 'Mother of Japanese Buddhism.'

07/07/2023

We look forward to seeing you at the Obon Festival at Ekoji Buddhist Temple (6500 Lakehaven Ln, Fairfax Station, VA 22039) this Saturday July 8th, 5pm - 9pm. Rain or shine

There will be food, folk dancing, live Hawaiian music, taiko drumming, games, vendors, and a garden candlelight service at dusk to honor those who have passed away, especially ones during the past twelve months. Memory candles can be pre-ordered and dedicated even if you can't make it to the candle service.

Tickets are only $5 at the gateless gate ☺️ or pre-order online:

In between events, enjoy the children and teen game and activities, temple tours and presentations, specialty food, desserts, beverages, vendor and artisan booths. 

06/15/2022

Newsletter from our Tendai North America HQ temple in upstate New York, June 2022

Hi, just a reminder that you're receiving this email because you have expressed an interest in the Tendai Buddhist Institute. Don't forget to add [email protected] to your address book so we'll be sure t

10/15/2021

🌎 "WHY LOCAL CLIMATE ACTION AND JUSTICE MATTER"
🔔 Online event on Tuesday 19 Oct 2021 at 7pm EDT
🙏 Please register & contribute!!

Featured speaker will be Rev. Michael Malcolm of People's Justice Council and Alabama Interfaith Power and Light. Bill Pugh who is Great River Tendai's lay leader and Alexandria hub lead for Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions will be in the dialog.

01/11/2020

Movie night!!! Thursday 1/16/20 6:30pm at the Japanese embassy's culture center in DC. It's a sweet movie I've watched during a festival. The DVD can be found internationally but without English subtitles. Registration required at the link below. Message Yusei Lan Van if you'd like to meet up.

Come to the JICC for a FREE Japanese film! J-Film: I Am A Monk Thursday, January 16th at 6:30 PM A poignant film adaptation of Missei Shirakawa's same-titled essays about his experiences as the head monk at Eifukuji Temple in Ehime Prefecture's Imabari City. I Am A Monk offers a bittersweet and humo...

11/12/2019

On 12/22 and 12/29/2019, come help with o-souji, cleaning and polishing practice at our temple space to get ready for the new year :)

One of the first things visitors to Japan notice is how clean everywhere is – yet there are hardly any litter bins and street sweepers. What's the secret behind this contradiction?

10/13/2019

An honor and joy to officiate a wedding! Congratulations Mrs and Mr Lapointe!!!