1727 Pali Hwy
Honolulu, HI 96813
USA
click image for full-size flyer
Dharmachakara Festival 2018
Commemorating the Buddha’s First Teaching or “Turning of the Wheel of Dharma”
This will be an enjoyable evening of fellowship with a community of friends who share the vision of a better world through Buddhist wisdom and the practice of compassion. Please join us!
| 4:00 p.m. | Registration |
| 4:20 p.m. | In the main temple: Ceremonial Program Welcome and chanting from Pure Land Shin, Theravada, and Zen Buddhist traditions. Keynote Speaker: Sister Malia Dominica Wong, on “Welcoming the Stranger: The Practice of Religious Hospitality” |
| 5:20 p.m. | In the Social Hall: Panel Discussion: “Mindfulness Practice Through the Ages from Ancient Theravada to Modern Medical Applications,” featuring: Thanh Huynh, Ernestine Enomoto, Tom Marx and Richard Hennessey |
| 6:20 p.m. | Vietnamese buffet, catering by Ba-Le |
| 7:00 p.m. | Cultural Entertainment Taiko with Pacific Buddhist Academy, Songs on mindfulness with Thanh Huynh, Hula with Masago Asai and Kupai Marx, Operatic and popular songs with Rev. Takamasa Yamamura (Honolulu Myohoji Mission) and Shakuhachi with Katsumi Takemoto |
Suggested donation: $10 – $20
Please RSVP by Sept. 17th to margeryhamai@gmail.com for dinner reservations.
Our Evening’s Keynote Speaker and Panelists
Malia Dominica Wong, PhD., O.P., Catholic religious Sister and Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Chaminade University,
has deep family roots in Buddhism. Began practicing Buddhist meditation with Zen Master Robert Aitken Roshi in 1982.
Thanh Huynh, M.D., Vipassana meditator since 1984, participant in multiple monthlong silent retreats. Ernestine Enomoto, Ph.D., Dharma teacher in the tradition of Vietnamese Zen master, Thich Nhat Hanh, practitioner since 1993.
Tom Davidson-Marx has led free weekly meditation classes for 20 years in Manoa. Richard Hennessey, LCSW, Psychotherapist for 40 years and certified teacher of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction.
The first teaching following the Buddha’s Enlightenment, was called the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, which means the “Turning of the Wheel of Truth.” It was given on the full moon day of July to five ascetics at Deer Park in Isipatana (now Sarnath), near Benares, India. He taught the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path that would lead people from suffering to Enlightenment and freedom.