Hsi Lai News 2020

November

• 11/22     Dharma School for Youth making rose to celebrate thanksgiving
• 11/7     Kind words are like honey— sweet to the soul and healthy for the body

October

• 10/31     Hsi Lai Buddha's Light School Campus Halloween Car Parade- No tricks just treats
• 10/4     Hsi Lai Scouts sharing leadership tips with Dharma School for Youth for online lesson
• 10/1     Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple Members Come Back Home for the Mid-Autumn Festival Blessing Ceremony
• 10/1     Mid-Autumn Festival Virtual Gathering without Distance

September

• 9/27     Buddha's Light Hsi Lai School Lunar Festival Gathering Event- Feels Good to Return Home
• 9/20     Hsi Lai Temple Girl Scout Virtual Bridging Ceremony
• 9/20     Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple Dharma Schools for Kids and Youth Commences Online for the Fall Semester
• 9/11     Doodling Chan Online with Three Acts of Goodness Club from the University of the West
• 9/4     The Buddha’s Light Hsi Lai School celebrates Venerable Master Hsing Yun’s Birthday

August

• 8/30     Buddha’s Light Hsi Lai School Materials Pick-up Event
• 8/29     Hsi Lai Temple Dharma Talk, a path to release anxiousness
• 8/8     Hsi Lai Temple Online One-Day Retreat

July

• 7/4     BLIA members celebrate July 4

June

• 6/23     Buddhist Catholic dialogue: Discussion about the climate change
• 6/20     Doodling Chan, combination of art and cultivate
• 6/9     Reaching out to those in need during this pandemic

May

• 5/31     Ask Venerables, North America YAD online Buddhism Q&A session
• 5/17     Rising Stars Music Festival – BLYSO online musical competition
• 5/16     Celebration of Fo Guang Shan 54th anniversary, FGS branches in North America held Global Simultaneous Sutra Transcription event
• 5/9     Online Buddhist Studies Strengthens the Faith of Young Adults
• 5/7     United Nations and the American Buddhist Community Dialogue: Compassionate Response to the Pandemic
• 5/7     National Day of Prayer Virtual Interfaith Gathering

April

• 4/26     Hsi Lai Temple Dharma School for Kids and Youth Teachers Commemorate the Buddha’s Birthday During Teacher Workshop
• 4/20     "Though we’re apart, together we can make it” North America BLIA YAD Performed Harmonize together through online internet
• 4/18     BLIA Radiance Chapter held reading club to strengthen the power of faith in Buddhism
• 4/15     National Buddhist-Christian Dialogue held on Zoom
• 4/10     We Are All One Family – Buddha’s Light Members’ Amidst the Pandemic

March

• 3/8     Fo Guang Shan Hsi Lai Temple Dharma School for Kids and Youth Teachers Utilize the Spring 2020 Semester Hiatus to Complete a Teachers’ Workshop

Feburary

• 2/23     Young Adults participated in “Total Merits Transfer Dharma Service for Ceasing the COVID-19 Epidemic”

January

• 1/8     Hsi Lai Temple Winter Retreat Enjoy the Peace and Rediscover True Self
• 1/4     Hsi Lai Temple multi-religions Prayer for World Peace