Welcome to Our Service, Remembering Family and Other Friends

This Sunday will be the Eitaikyo &
All Living Things Memorial Services

Rev. Smitty welcomes us and will officiate with our Guest Speaker, Elaine Donlin of the Buddhist Church of San Francisco.
Ralph Honda will chair the service.
Rev. Donlin will share both the Children's and Adult's Dharma Talk.
Ann Ong will provide the musical accompaniment.

Note: If you want to submit a form for the All Life Forms Memorial, you can email the information to the temple by Friday afternoon, and we will print it for the service.  (Anything after 3:00 p.m. will probably not be seen).  We need: “In Memory of, and With Gratitude for _____(add everything you wish to add here), plus your name, and send it to info@btsd.net.

This Saturday we will have the seminar “Nembutsu”

here at the temple.  Please check for information below.

SCHEDULE

In the Hondo (top floor of our main building)
9:00 a.m. for Chanting Group Practice (Time Changed)
     (new members welcome)
10:00 a.m. Kansho(Calling Bell) welcomes you.
Rev. Smitty leads us in ritual.
Rev. Donlin provides the Dharma School message.
10:30 a.m. (approximate) Dharma School students and teachers excused to classes; adult Sangha remains for theAdult Dharmamessage also given byRev. Donlin.
11:15 a.m. (approximate) English-speaking adult sangha excused.

Following these activities, everyone is invited to the Dining Hall, on the Office Level, for Hospitality with light refreshments.  

Livestream of Service. If you are not able to join in person,
we plan to livestream the service in real time on our YouTube channel page. 
You may need to check the "Live" tab to find the livestream.

About Rev. Donlin

Rev. Elaine Donlin received her Minister Assistant robes from the Buddhist Church of San Francisco in 2008, and received Tokudo from our mother temple, Nishi Hongwanji, in Kyoto Japan in 2012. She leads an innovative monthly Metta Gathering in Shin temples in San Francisco, Mill Valley and Sebastopol for the past 10 years. Rev Donlin is also a founding member of the BCSF LGBTQ+ group, the first such temple group within the Buddhist Churches of America. Additionally, she presently serves as president of the BCSF Buddhist Women’s Association.

 Rev. Donlin is passionate about interfaith collaboration and served on the San Francisco Interfaith Council Board of Directors for the past 6 years and continues to coordinate BCSF's SFIC Winter Shelter Meal Program for the unhoused. In October of 2021, she was invited to present at the Interfaith Coalition Conference for Global Citizens in Seoul, South Korea. She spoke on the importance of interfaith collaboration in promoting the United Nation's Global Citizenship Education Initiative as essential to overcoming the complex global crises we presently find ourselves in. In Jan. 2023, Elaine Sensei was elected president of the Japanese American Religious Federation (JARF), which is a consortium of churches and temples in the San Francisco Japantown area, working together to promote peace and unity since 1948. For over 10 years now, Rev Donlin has provided Meditation and Buddhist teachings in the SF County Men’s and Women’s Jails.

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