Upcoming Events
Seminar on Reading & Translating Buddhist Texts
This seven-day seminar held in the peaceful setting of a Mahayana Buddhist monastery in Ukiah, California—the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, will introduce participants to early Buddhist literature.
Past Events
Book Release - Responsible Living: Explorations in Applied Buddhist Ethics
Dharma Realm Buddhist University and the Buddhist Text Translation Society are delighted to announce a new publication by Dharma Realm Buddhist University’s Chancellor Emeritus, Dr. Ron Epstein, Ph.D. Responsible Living: Explorations in Applied Buddhist Ethics - Animals, Environment, GMOs, Digital Media is a collection of exploratory essays which uses applied Buddhist ethics, with support from passages in classic Buddhist texts, to address a host of modern day issues related to the environment, animal rights, and digital media.
Awakin Circle
We are please to announce the first Awakin Circle at DRBU with our dear friends from Service Space. During the circle time, two musicians Nimo and Fab will be sharing their music and reflection with us.
Lectures by Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi
Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi will offer two lectures: "Planting Wholesome Roots" and "Practical Dependent Origination."
The First Annual DRBU Student Symposium
The First Annual DRBU Student Symposium will take place on Sunday, February 25.
Heidegger and Today's Global Thinking: On the Way to Thinking
This lecture is an invitation to take a stroll through Heidegger's field that leads to thinking and closely follow the invisible marks that he may have left behind in his late years.
Ven. Kaccāna Bhikku on Spiritual Friendship and Communal Harmony
This talk will be on spiritual friendship and harmonious living with regard to cultivating qualities that contribute to a healthy community.
The Kāṇva Brāhmaṇas and Buddhists in Kosala
Through a careful textual study, this lecture explores evidence for the close relationship between the Kāṇva brāhmaṇas and early Buddhists in Kosala.
Yoga Workshop: Principles and Practice
Whether your goal is to release tension, restore mobility, or expand awareness, you will be able to apply the concepts in this 3-hour session to heal body and mind, create more vigour, and make your seated meditation more steady and easeful.
DRBU Symposium Presents: Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio
Please join us for a mathematics lecture, and Q & A with Dr. Shu-Chu Chang.
Resonant Strings Student Recital
Come enjoy an afternoon of Guqin (ancient Chinese zither) music and tea. Share in the arts and culture with us!
The Spirit of Meditation: Zen Patriarchs and Art
A brief introduction of the development of Zen (Chan) Buddhism as seen through art, with a focus on prominent Zen patriarchs.
Temples, Images and Offerings: A basic knowledge of Buddhist Art and its history
An introduction of Chinese Buddhist art as found in temples, sculpture, painting, and objects, and their development within Chinese history.
Irigaray meets Nagarjuna: Compassion, Generosity and Possibility
During this seven-day retreat, we will follow a traditional Buddhist monastic lifestyle of meditation, study, and work designed to calm the mind and open the heart.
Dunhuang Sutra Paintings Lectures: The Amitabha Sutra painting and the Flower Dharma Sutra painting
Dharma Master Kuan-Qian is the director of Taiwan Yong-Xiu Vihara, Chue Feng Buddhist Art & Culture Foundation, and Bodhi Buddhist Association. She has extensive and profound knowledge of Buddhist art and is excellent at illuminating how it integrates with Buddhist teachings.
Summer Guan Yin Retreat
Join us for one week of intensive recitation and meditation practice in a monastic environment.
Summer Avatamsaka Syllabary Class
Join this interactive workshop to learn how to sing and practice the Avatamsaka Syllabary.
Workshop: Traditional Chinese Ink and Brush Line Drawing
The Practice of line drawing in traditional ink and brush style focus on the figure of the Buddha
DRBU Commencement
The commencement ceremony will be held on May 19, 2017.
Visions of a Modern Buddhist Education for the World
How can Buddhist universities prepare students to meet the needs of a modern, globalized world? What can Buddhist higher education contribute to solving our pressing social and environmental problems?
Creating a Native Buddhist Liturgy: a Dialogue
Dr. Wilcox has recently been researching and writing about the crossover between Christian and Buddhist ceremonies, including questions about why people sing, what they sing about, how Chinese and English traditions have interacted and how they might develop in the future. Join us for a lively dialogue.
Awakin Call with Doug Powers
Awakin hosts DRBU Professor Doug Powers on this week's online conference call at 9:00 AM PDT.
Movie Screening: Teach Me to Be Wild
Teach Me To Be Wild explores a sanctuary in Northern California, where a team of injured, non-releasable wild animals become Wild-Teachers.
Spring Guan Yin Retreat
Join us for one week of intensive recitation and meditation practice in a monastic environment.
Lecture on Thomas Merton and Contemplation
Join us for a lecture by Clare Ronzani on the 20th century Christian monk, mystic and prophet, Thomas Merton.
Guqin: Music of Ancient Chinese Scholars
Please join us for David Wong's guqin concert - Guqin: Music of Ancient Chinese Scholars.
Winter Amitabha Retreat 2016
Come join us this winter and experience how mindfulness of Amitabha Buddha may focus and brighten your mind.
Tea and Dharma Gathering: Bridging East and West
A casual gathering talking with Western Buddhist monks and teachers about how to bridge Asian and Western culture. This is a rare opportunity to to meet American Buddhist teachers with over forty years of experience in the Dharma and Chinese culture. There will be fun stories, folk music, and fine tea.
Harmonious Relationship as Buddhist Practice
An exploration of the interpersonal, beginning with non-contention, the first of the Six Great Principles of practice at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas.
Buddhism and Conservation in Mongolia
Presentation by Ono Batkhuu, founder of Mongol Ecology Center, a non-governmental organization based in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Tucson, Arizona, which works to ensure a thriving future for Mongolia by transferring best practices to preserve the environment, natural resources, and cultural heritage of Mongolia.
Conference – Self, Sacrifice and Cosmos: Late Vedic Thought, Ritual, and Philosophy - A conference in honor of Dr. Ganesh Umakant Thite
The conference will focus on the intermediate texts of the Vedic corpus, the Brāhmaṇas and Āraṇyakas that come between the Saṃhitās and the Upaniṣads. Papers will explore topics in religion, ritual, narrative, and philosophy.
Civic Engagement for Humanity: Lessons from Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Applied to Modern Times
DRBU Trustee Carol Ruth Silver and Marion Kwan, both Bay Area veterans of the Civil Rights movement, will visit our campus this month to give a talk at the Sudhana Center
Introduction to the Vedas
Dr. Ganesh Umakant Thite is Professor Emeritus in Sanskrit at the University of Pune. He has published several books including Sacrifice in the Brāhmaṇa Texts (1975), Medicine: Its Magico-religious Aspects in the Vedic and Later Literature (1981), and Music in the Veda (1996) as well as more than two hundred and fifty papers.
2016 Seminar on Reading & Translating Buddhist Texts
Join us for a seven-day translation seminar which offers six tracks of Buddhist text translation.
Lecture by Luang Por Pasanno on mettā, vipassanā, and samatha
A lecture by Luang Por Pasanno on the topic of the interrelationship of mettā, vipassanā, and samatha and guidelines for the practice of each.
What is Doxography?
The age old method of collecting and classifying opinions known as Doxography and how the very process and the time we allot to it can influence the mind in forming mental constructs. The main issues under consideration will be the area from where data is collected, the organizing and classifying of the givens and the refraining from passing judgment, as the most important tool of the process for attaining mental clarity.
Forum on Ethics and the Environment
In this forum series, we will first learn about the present situation around climate change and biodiversity loss–two great issues facing the Earth and its inhabitants–by drawing on recent science. We will then turn towards spiritual roots and solutions for these ecological crises.
Chinese New Year Potluck
We are celebrating Chinese New Year at the Sudhana Center.
The Life of Gautama Buddha as Depicted in Ancient Indian Art
The Co-Curricular Committee invites you to attend a special lecture by Dr. Osmund Bopearachchi, a world-renowned specialist in Buddhist art history.
DRBU Christmas Party
Celebrate the end of the semester with the DRBU community.
Solaris Concert at Sudhana Center
Join us for our first concert at the new Sudhana Center performed by Solaris, an interfaith music group.
Trip to Montgomery Redwoods
Hike and picnic lunch from 10:30am - 2pm at Montgomery Woods.
Presentation on Parliament of World Religions
Several students and faculty who attended and presented at the 2015 Presentation on Parliament will report back on their experience.
DRBU Film Screening: “Dreams” by Kurosawa
Join us for a film screening and discussion of “Dreams” by Kurosawa.
Fall Guan Yin Retreat
Join us for one week of intensive recitation and meditation practice in a monastic environment.
DRBU Film Screening: The Century of the Self
This documentary screening and discussion is aimed at inspiring and broadening discussions around DRBU’s academic programs, particularly readings of Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents, a core text in both the MA and BA programs. This film explores the aftermath of Freud’s psychological perspective on western civilization, and how these perspectives played out American culture, politics, and economics.
Stretching Our Understanding of Yoga – a month-long Yoga Film Festival
Yoga Mendocino will show films on next four upcoming Thursdays at 7:00pm.
Evening lecture and Q&A with Venerable Ming Hai from China
Reverend Heng Sure and Venerable Ming Hai will discuss Applied Buddhism in the Modern World and Chinese Chan and Western Zen: Buddhist Solutions to Global Problems in the 21st Century.
Service Trip to Middletown
Service trip to serve food and provide support in Middletown, CA where a wildfire fire recently destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses.
Buddhist Narrative Literature
Please join us for DRBU's first guest lecture of the semester and hear about Buddhist stories.
2015 Seminar on Reading & Translating Buddhist Texts
This seven-day seminar will be conducted in the peaceful setting of a Mahayana Buddhist monastery in Ukiah, California. It is an introduction to early Buddhist literature written in Classical Chinese. Participants will read a selected work and related Chinese commentaries. Students will work with Buddhist monastics who are experienced translators.
Taste for Freedom– a talk by James Roberts, MA '15
Presenting Xuangzang’s Demonstraon of Consciousness-Only and Immanual Kant’s Crituqe of Aesthetic Judgement
Winter Amitabha Retreat 2014
Reciting the name of Amitabha Buddha is a meditative technique of the Pure Land tradition. Chan (Zen) meditation masters have long advocated the Pure Land as an essential & complementary practice to Chan meditation.