🌱 Join the Vegetarian Cooking Club at Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple, NC! Love vegetarian food? Come learn, cook, and share together! 🌿   Each month, members take turns demonstrating a vegetarian dish and guiding hands-on group practice—from prepping to cooking to tasting. 🍴 For the first few sessions, Club Leader Samuel Edison (trained in Michelin-starred restaurants & co-founder of The Little Lotus NYC) will lead the demo.   📅 Dates: Every 2nd Sunday (2026/4/12, 5/17, 6/

Participants focus their minds by transcribing the English Heart Sutra , deepening their understanding of the teachings. (Photo by Zhang Yin) [Reported by Yu Chuan, North Carolina, USA]  On December 20, 2025, Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple, North Carolina, hosted an English-language One-day Retreat, welcoming 17 local participants. The thoughtfully designed program offered a meaningful blend of meditation practices and Buddhist learning, including sitting meditation, transcrib

Soldiers draw Dharma words in the Jade Buddha Shrine, experiencing guidance through Buddhist wisdom. [Reported by Yu Chuan, North Carolina, USA]   On December 18, 2025, Assistant Professor Hsinni Tsai of the Chinese Department at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center of Fort Bragg, led three soldiers studying Chinese on a visit to Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple, North Carolina. Through a rich and diverse cultural program, the visitors gained deeper insight int