UU Buddhist Sangha May 2025

Spring brings new beginnings, and it is the same for UU Buddhist Sangha. Monday May 12 is a special day on our calendar—Vesak, or Buddha’s Birthday. This is the day the Buddhist world and the UN designated to honor and celebrate the birth of Siddhartha Gautama around 563 BCE in present day Nepal. There will be no Zoom meeting that date but a gathering of our members at a sacred site to be determined.

Beginning on May 19, we are opening a new introductory direction to welcome new members who wish to renew their interest in learning about the Buddha’s teachings with a text by two great religion scholars—Huston Smith and Philip Novak. Our intention is to share a concise introduction to Buddhism by award-winning professors. Its interest to us is in the second half of the book, in the global migration and development of Buddhism in the west, especially in America. We need the spiritual direction it offers in these troubling times.

So if you are curious about Buddhism, this will be a learned introduction—Buddhism 101. We are part of Groups to Nurture Mind and Spirit in the newsletter. We send an agenda each week to members of UU Buddhist Sangha on Realm Weekly meetings are on Zoom Mondays at 7:00-8:30pm. For more information, contact our leaders at ([email protected]).