Buddhist Temple of Marin

On this page can be viewed information about our annual Bazaar and semi-annual rummage sales. Listed here also is information about educational events, lectures,and other special events occurring at the temple. Please check back regularly to see what's new and what's coming up at the temple. For schedules see the Calendar page or request a newsletter. For more information about a particular event call the temple (415) 388-1173 or email us at info@BuddhistTempleOfMarin.org

Annual Events

Rummage Sale - Rummage sales are held in October and April each year. You can find great buys on all kinds of things from tools to books, house wares to jewelry, Japanese and other Asian items. And there is a vast selection of clothes. April 21/22 and October 20/21 2012, Saturday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Sunday 11:00 am - 3:00 pm.

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2011/12 Lecture Series

Buddhist Educational Speaker Series - The Buddhist Temple of Marin sponsors lectures and workshops throughout the year. Below is our current list of offerings.

Evening lecture with Dr. Nobuo Haneda Thursday, Feb 16, 2012, 7:30 - 9:30 pm

Shakyamuni and Shinran, Buddhism as a Teaching of Self-Examination
Socrates may have coined the term, “The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being” but he may not have been the first. Is this what the Buddha’s message was for the human race? This topic will
be explored by examining the nembutsu teaching of Shinran Shonin, founder of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism.

Rev. Dr. Nobuo Haneda was born in Nagano, Japan. He graduated from the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, majoring in Russian. Having come to the U.S.A. in 1971, he received his Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies at the University of Wisconsin in 1979. Dr. Haneda was a lecturer at the Otani University in Kyoto, Japan, 1979-81, was dean and head professor at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley, 1984-85, and was a researcher at the Numata Center in Berkeley, 1987-97.
In 1997 Dr. Haneda helped found the Maida Center of Buddhism in Berkeley, CA, which is a center dedicated to the study of Shin Buddhism in the United States. He is the author of Dharma Breeze: Essays on Shin Buddhism, has translated several Japanese written works on Shin Buddhism, and authors the newsletter “The Dharma Breeze”. He conducts regular study sessions at the Maida Center and annual retreats on topics in Shin Buddhism, and is frequently asked to speak at temples across the country.
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Workshop with Reverend Tetsuo Unno comming on Saturday, April 7th, 2012. Details to be announced.
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Past Events

Reverend Carol Himaka, Thursday Evenings in September and October, 2011 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Two lecture series of three classes each will occur in the fall, 2011.

All lectures are Free! No registration required.

Series one: Introduction to Buddhism

• Sept. 29,    Buddha - The history, myth and legend of the man known as The Buddha
• Oct.    6 ,    Dharma - The basic Teachings of the Buddha
• Oct. 13,    Sangha - The history and background of the original followers of the Buddha.

Series two: Introduction to Jodo Shinshu

• Oct. 27,     Bodhisattvas and Pure Lands - Development of Mahayana school and the Bodhisattva spirit
• Nov. 3,     Shinran Shonin - The founder of Jodo Shinshu, his contribution to the Pureland Buddhism.
• Nov. 10,     What is a Pureland? - Purelands explained and the significance of Amida Buddha's Puredland.

Reverend Carol Himaka was ordained as a Jodo Shinshu minister in 1979 (Kyoto, Japan). She achieved Kyoshi ordination in 1980 and Kaikyoshi in 1982. Currently Rev. Himaka is the resident minister at Enmanji Buddhist Temple in Sebastopol, Ca. and the supervising minister at the Buddhist Temple of Marin. Other assignments include chairman of the Bay District Minister’s Association, Secretary of the BCA Minister’s Association and is an instructor for the correspondence course, Jodo Shinshu level 1, available through the Center for Buddhist Education. Reverend Himaka was raised in San Diego, California and completed her bachelor of arts degree in Fine Art at San Diego State University. She also has Master of Arts degrees from the Institute of Buddhist Studies (1979, Buddhist Studies) and California State University at Hayward (1989, English Literature).
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Evening Lecture with John Marmysz PhD, Thursday, January 12, 2012 7:30 - 9:30 pm

The Concept of Suffering
    In the Buddha's First Sermon, suffering (dukkha) is identified as one of the Four Noble Truths. Because suffering reveals the nature of our entanglement in the world, it is more than simply a negative phenomenon; it is also discloses reality to us.
    The philosopher Martin Heidegger, in his classic work Being and Time, echoes this insight into the nature of suffering when he identifies anxiety (angst) as a fundamental mode of human attunement to the world.
    This talk will explore the Buddhist concept of suffering (dukkha) and how it compares and contrasts with the idea of anxiety (angst) in Heideggerian philosophy. - Free! (no registration required)

Recommended Readings:
Anything on the Buddha's first sermon or the Benares Sermon
Being and Time, by Martin Heidegger. Chapter VI, section 40: "The Fundamental Attunement of Angst as the Eminent Disclosedness of Dasein."

John Marmysz received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of The Nihilist’s Notebook (Moralinefree Publishing, 1996), Laughing at Nothing: Humor as a Response to Nihilism (SUNY Press, 2003), and The Path of Philosophy: Truth, Wonder, and Distress (Wadsworth, forthcoming 2011). He is co-editor (with Scott Lukas) of Fear, Cultural Anxiety and Transformation: Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films Remade (Lexington Books, 2009). He currently teaches philosophy at the College of Marin.

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