NOTICES

Work on our SERVICE ORDER page is now complete and every page within it is formatted to work well on smartphones. So now, if you use your laptop or counsole to interface with Zoom, you can run your phone alongside it to show you the content of each item in the order they are performed.

Our Zoom sessions alternate every Wednesday evening between a hybrid Buddha Service one week, and an online only Shin/Pure Land Study Session the next. Our STUDY PROGRAM page includes links to PDF transcripts of all studies scheduled 17th Sep-17th Dec 2025.

Our last Study Group meeting in 2025 will take place at 8.15pm on Wed 17th December, and the first Study Group meeting in 2026 will take place at the same time on 7th January 2026. Our last Buddha Service in 2025 will take place at 8.15pm on Wed 10th December, and our first Buddha Service in 2026 will take place at the same time on 14th January.

The Lunar New Year in 2026 occurs on 17th February. Lantern Festival occurs fourteen days later, on the 3rd of March.

YEAR IN - YEAR OUT: In February 2026 we enter our thirteenth year of weekly Buddhist Sangha meetings together. The time and date of that first meeting is memorable because it was set to coincided with ascending of a new moon on the night of the Lantern Festival - which is dedicated Kuan Yin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Because of this, an exact date and time can be confirmed! Lantern Festival always coincides with the rising of the first full moon in the Lunar/Chinese new year, which occurs on the first new moon in the new lunar year.