CANCELLED : April 7th Tuesday at Berkeley Buddhist Monastery

Location: Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, 2304 McKinley Ave, Berkeley, CA 94703, USA

Description:
NOTE : This event has been cancelled due to COVID-19.   

On the first Tuesday of every month, one of the senior monks from Abhayagiri visits Berkeley Buddhist Monastery to lead a session of chanting, meditation, and give a Dhamma talk.

5:00 - 6:00PM Tea Time and Q&A with the Monastics (Dining Room)
Kindly keep voices low in the lobby and hallway as you enter and exit the building. Doors open at 5:00PM. 

6:00-7:15PM Break (Outside)
Our host, the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, has meditation and chanting programs from 5:15PM to 7:15PM in the main shrine room and these programs overlap with our program.  Please mingle outside the building during the break. 

7:30 - 9:30PM Evening Session (Main Shrine Room)
Chanting, meditation, and refuges/precepts, and Dhamma talk. We would greatly appreciate your assistance in setting up for the evening and putting away chairs/cushions at the end. Doors open at 7:15PM.

Address:
Berkeley Buddhist Monastery 
2304 McKinley Ave.
(One block from the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Bancroft Way. The Downtown Berkeley BART station is about a 10-15 minute walk.)

Live Stream Available - Full Moon Observance Day

Description: Updated : As of March 27, 2020, we are currently taking the following precautions due to concerns regarding COVID-19 : 

- The monks are not going on alms round

- We are asking the general public to abstain from coming to the monastery for the evening chantings, meditations and Dhamma talks. However, it is still possible to participate in Evening Puja via Live Stream which is made available on Abhayagiri's YouTube Channel .  The Live Stream will begin at 7pm PDT. 

https://www.youtube.com/c/AbhayagiriBuddhistMonastery  
  

Abhayagiri's Lunar Observance Day

There is no morning meditation or work period on the Lunar Observance Days. Monastics walk for alms in Ukiah and Redwood Valley starting at 9 a.m. A small group of monks enters Ukiah and walks north on State Street from approximately 9:00-10:30 am accepting offerings of alms food as is the daily custom in Theravada Buddhist countries. They can be met in front of the Safeway grocery store (on the sidewalk along State St.) around 9:15 am, or in Alex Thomas Plaza in the city center around 9:30 am. Another group of monks walks north East Road from the Redwood Valley town center starting at 8:40 am. A third group walks along Tomki Road, through the local Frey Vineyards.

Evening chanting, meditation, taking of the precepts and a Dhamma talk will take place at Abhayagiri from 7:00 p.m. to 9:15 p.m.

The evening continues with a meditation vigil through the night, with sitting and walking meditation as one wishes in half-hour segments. There is an intermission with tea and informal discussion at midnight, then sitting and walking resume until morning chanting at 3:00 a.m.