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Lamp Transmission
November 20, 2016
With great happiness and for the first time, we are happy to inform you the Lamp Transmission will be taking place at Magnolia Grove Monastery. We will transmit six Dharma lamps to six monastics. Our senior Brothers and Sisters will represent our Beloved Teacher to transmit these lamps. The ceremony is beautiful and profound involving an exchange of poetry and intimate guidance given by Thich Nhat Hanh, represented by his senior disciples, to his disciples as they become a Dharma Teacher in the Plum Village Tradition.
For those of you unfamiliar with this tradition, lamp transmission refers to \”the manner in which the teaching, or Dharma, is passed from a Zen master to their disciple. The procedure establishes the disciple as a transmitting teacher in their own right and successor in an unbroken lineage of teachers and disciples, a spiritual \’bloodline\’ theoretically traced back to the Buddha himself.\” According to Zen schools, the first instance of Dharma transmission occurred as transcribed in the Flower Sermon, when the Buddha held up a golden lotus flower given to him by Brahma before an assembly of \”gods and men.\” (Source http://kenleyneufeld.com)
You are warmly invited to join this special weekend with us. Please click here to register.