OFFERING SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
There is tremendous benefit in offering service to sustain the Sangha. Find the activities and dates best for you.
At Sravasti Abbey our Offering Service opportunities provide the chance to engage in activities that reflect your life values. Whether you are available to come to the beautiful rural setting of the Abbey for service weekends or help us from your home, working with like-minded individuals for something you believe in is a rejuvenating experience.
Our practice is to connect to the real possibility of ‘creating peace in a chaotic world' through all that we do, whether it is meditating with others, transcribing a talk, sending a letter, planting a garden, or helping to construct a new building. Won't you join us in transforming our world?
Join the residents of Sravasti and other volunteers as they work together and share the Dharma in informal discussions. Our visitors have the opportunity to live in community with the Abbey. Please contact the
to sign up for any offering service weekend or scheduled event.
Yearly Events
April - Oct Veggie garden: planting, weeding, harvesting
April - Nov Forest Health Project: thining/chipping for firewood
May - Sept Flower garden: weeding
June - Aug Knapweed: spraying and pulling
July Cherry Harvest
July - Aug Apple Harvest and apple sauce making
CALENDAR
August 2008
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1 Offering Service weekend begins
new moon
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| 3 Offering Service weekend ends |
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8 Offering Service weekend begins |
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| 10 Offering Service weekend ends |
11 Tsok |
12 |
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14 |
15 Offering Service weekend begins
full moon
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16 |
| 17 Offering Service weekend ends |
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| 24 |
25 |
26 Tsok |
27 |
28 |
29 Offering Service weekend begins |
30
new moon
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| 31 Offering Service weekend ends |
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September 2008
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Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
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1 Labor Day |
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5 Offering Service weekend begins |
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| 7 Offering Service weekend ends |
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10 Tsok |
11 |
12 Offering Service weekend begins |
13 |
| 14 Offering Service weekend ends |
15 full moon
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16 |
17 |
18 |
19 Offering Service weekend begins |
20 |
| 21 Offering Service weekend ends |
22 autumnal equinox |
23 |
24 Tsok |
25 |
26 Offering Service weekend begins |
27 |
| 28 Offering Service weekend ends |
29 new moon
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October 2008
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Monday |
Tuesday |
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Friday |
Saturday |
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3 Offering Service weekend begins |
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| 5 Offering Service weekend ends |
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8 |
Tsok 9 Yom Kippur begins |
10 Offering Service weekend begins |
11 |
| 12 Offering Service weekend ends |
13 full moon
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14 |
15 |
16 |
17 Offering Service weekend begins |
18 |
| 19 Offering Service weekend ends |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 Tsok |
24 Offering Service weekend begins |
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| 26 Offering Service weekend ends |
27 new moon
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28 |
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31 Offering Service weekend begins |
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Offering Service Weekends
Volunteer service weekends have been going on since Venerable Chodron moved into the Abbey October 2003. they have been true examples of the Dharma in action, bringing together students and volunteers, Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike, from near and far. These offering-service weekends have be instrumental in remodeling the house, tending the veggie and flower gardens on a continual basis, preparing firewood, and editing audio teachings and putting them on Venerable’s website (www.thubtenchodron.org) .
| September 5-7 |
October 17-19 |
| September 12-14 |
October 24-26 |
| September 19-21 |
October 31-November 2 |
| September 26-28 |
November 7-9 |
| October 3-5 |
November 14-16 |
| October 10-12 |
November 21-23 |
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