Dharma Medicine for Pandemics: The Sutra on Entering The City of Vaisali
With Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi and Lama Lekshe
August 28, 2020
At Great Vow Zen Monastery, we have been singing this sutra each day at noon service for months and have come to appreciate its beauty and meaning. Recited in lyrical chanting written by Rodrigo Reijers, a young Buddhist practitioner living in Denmark, the sutra tells the story of the Buddha giving instructions to Ananda for how to end the epidemic in the great Indian city of Vaishali. Ananda did as instructed and the epidemic was quelled. Chozen Bays, Roshi and Lama Lekshe will tell the story of the sutra; how to use the sutra as practice during Covid-19, and we’ll chant it together. Links will be provided to a PDF of the sutra text for printing in advance; as well as a link to the music for your personal practice. Listen to the full sutra chanted here. (We chant a version half this long, since the sutra is repeated in this full version.)
August 28th – starts at 7 PM, via Zoom
Link to music – https://vajrasound.com/entering-the-city-of-vaisali/
Link to the text – https://read.84000.co/translation/toh312.html (Note, the chating begins on line 1.1)
About the Leaders
Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi
Jan Chozen Bays, Roshi has studied and practiced Zen Buddhism since 1973. She received Jukai (lay precepts) in 1975 and Tokudo, Priest's Ordination, in 1979 from Taizan Maezumi, Roshi. From 1978 to 1983 she lived at Zen Center of Los Angeles, studying with Maezumi, Roshi and directing the Zen Center's non-profit Medical Clinic. She finished […]
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Lama Lekshe
Lama Lekshe (Julia King Tamang) has been praticing Tibetan Buddhism since 1994 in Portland, Oregon, Nepal and India. Her teachers are Bokar Rinpoche, Khenpo Lodro Donyo Rinpoche, and Lama Michael Conklin. In 2018, she completed a traditional 3-year meditation retreat in the Shangpa Kagyu tradition. Before retreat, was a university teacher and a consultant to colleges. Lekshe is the […]
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