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  • Tuesday, February 17 was the first day of the Lunar New Year (or Tet, as it is known in Viet Nam). On the 14th, Joe shared the Parallel Verses for the new year: Solid as a mountain, free as a white cloud. You can read more here: https://plumvillage.org/articles/solid-as-a-mountain-parallel-verses-for-the-year-of-the-horse

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    A new documentary film created to mark the one-year anniversary of the passing of the Vietnamese Buddhist monk and founder of the Engaged Buddhism movement,…

  • Footsteps Echo in the Halls of Time

    A Dharma talk by Dr. Larry Ward January 2023 marks one year since the passing of our beloved teacher, Thay, Thich Nhat Hanh. Around the…

  • Kieu Oracle Reading: Celebrating Tet

    On Wednesday, February 1, from 7:00 PM 8:30 p.m., The Lotus Institute will be hosting a special event celebrating Têt through the cherished practice of…

  • Updated Information

    We are now meeting in person and via Zoom. Please see the attached brochure for more information about our practice. Updated Brochure

About US
The face of a stone statue of the Buddha. Visible in the distance behind it are greens of trees and blue sky.

We are a community in the Plum Village tradition. Linda (True Path of Peace) is an ordained Order of Interbeing member. She was ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh on August 15, 2005.