Past Events

•  2025-02-21 19:00 - 21:00
•  Zoom / Central
•  Free

Book reading in these two months: Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise. Friday Night Practice is a “lite” mindful practice in town. On the first and third Friday of a month, we come together to have Friday Night Practice. We have a chance to practice mindfulness together with others and generate a powerful collective energy that can bring healing and transformation in ourselves and the world with the community after a busy week. In 2025 Jan and Feb, we will continue our reading of “Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise”, a book that shows us how to find and maintain our equanimity amid the barrage of noise. Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh guides us on a path to cultivate calm even in the most chaotic places. Silence is a concise, practical guide to understanding and developing our most powerful inner resource, silence, to help us find happiness, purpose, and peace. This gift of silence doesn’t require hours upon hours of silent meditation or an existing practice of any kind. Through careful breathing and mindfulness techniques he teaches us how to become truly present in the moment, to recognise the beauty surrounding us, and to find harmony. With mindfulness comes stillness and the silence we need to come back to ourselves and discover who we are and what we truly want, the keys to happiness and well-being. Welcome to join us 🙏 Date Time (UTC +8) Location Language 2025 Jan 3rd 19:30 – 21:15 Online (Zoom) English 2025 Jan 17th 19:00 – 21:00 Des Voeux Rd Central, Central Cantonese 2025 Feb 7th 19:30 – 21:15 Online (Zoom) English 2025 Feb 21st 19:30 – 21:15 Des Voeux Rd Central, Central Cantonese Joining the practice is free and require no previous experience. The exact zoom link and address of the practice center will be provided upon successful registration. Please join 5 minutes earlier to […]

•  2025-02-16 09:30 - 15:30
•  Lotus Pond Temple, Ngong Ping, Lantau Island
•  Free (donations are welcome)

We, the Plum Village Hong Kong Sangha, would like to show our deep gratitude and appreciation to you all for always supporting us through your practice and different means of contribution. This support of yours has helped us to continue the Career of the Lord Buddha, our Patriarch, and our beloved teacher more easily and effectively, spreading the Dharma and sharing the practice with our world today where there are so much suffering and instability.            Thanks to the many wonderful conditions that Plum Village has been given a small temple in Luk Wu Village since 2019, and words are not enough for us to express how happy and grateful we are to these conditions for us to have such a place in Hong Kong. This place has been renovated for more than two years and has now come to completion, thanks to so much love and support from monastics, lay practitioners, and generous donors around the world. We would like to invite you to take part in the Open-House event for our newly renovated Van Hanh temple with the schedule as follows: 09:30 Welcome guests to Lotus Pond temple 10:00 Singing meditation, instructions on walking and walking meditation. 10:45 Be-in 12:00 Lunch 13:30 Gather in front of Lotus Pond temple & heading to Luk Wu Village with prearranged bus 14:00 Arrived and practice walking meditation to Van Hanh temple 14:30 A short chanting ceremony. Touring around the temple and the village 15:30 Farewell & depart to Tung Chung with pre-arranged bus   VanHanhOpenDay English

•  2025-02-09 09:30 - 16:30
•  Lotus Pond Temple, Ngong Ping, Lantau Island
•  Free (donations are welcome)

Information of the activity 1st week: 5 Mindfulness Trainings Recitation Ceremony 2nd week: separate activities for Wake Up Group (youth aged 18 to 35)) 3rd week: 14 Mindfulness Trainings Recitation Ceremony 4th week: Q&A / Children Program Registration link will be open on Monday night approximately 11:00 pm and ended on Friday evening 18:00, or the capacity are fully occupied.

•  2025-01-30 10:00 - 21:30
•  Lotus Pond Temple, Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, Lantau
•  Free (donations are welcome); Staying Overnight : $200/night/person

All activities are at Lotus Pond Temple, except stated. 30 Jan 2025 (the 2nd day of Lunar New Year Calendar) 10:00 New Year Ceremony(Sitting, Chanting and Reading Kieu’s Oracles) 12:30 Lunch @ Lotus Pond Temple 14:30 Lion Dance Welcome guests and visit Lotus Pond Temple and the nuns’ rooms. 18:00 Dinner @ Lotus Pond Temple 21:30 Farewell If you would like to stay overnight in the temple, one night costs HK$200 (Please pay upon registration arriving the temple). If you plan to leave after the dinner, please arrange your own transportation. Closing of Registration:  January 27, 2025 15:00 Please note that there is no activities after breakfast on Jan 31, 2025 if you plan to have temple stay on January 30 night.  Temple will be closed on January 31, 2025.  

•  2025-01-29 10:00 - 21:30
•  Lotus Pond Temple, Ngong Ping, Lantau Island
•  Free (donations are welcome)； Staying Overnight : $200/night/person

All activities are at Lotus Pond Temple, except stated. 29 Jan 2025 (The first day of Lunar New Year Calendar) 10:00 New Year Ceremony (sitting, Lion Dance, chanting, Reading Kieu’s oracles,…) @ Lotus Pond Temple 12:30 Food Fair @ Bamboo Forest Monastery 14:30 Lion Dance and welcome guests to visit Bamboo Forest Hamlet and the Monks’ rooms 18:00 Dinner @ Bamboo Forest Monastery 21:30 Farewell If you would like to stay overnight in the temple, one night costs HK$200 (Please pay upon registration arriving the temple) . If you plan to leave after dinner, please arrange your own transportation. Closing of Registration:  January 26, 2025 15:00

•  2025-01-28 16:00 - 2025-01-29 01:30
•  Lotus Pond Temple, Ngong Ping, Lantau Island
•  Free (donations are welcome); Staying Overnight : $200/night/person

To celebrate the Year of Snake, Plum Village Hong Kong / Asian Institute of Apply Buddhism Chinese New Year activities will be started from January 28, 2025 (the last day of Dragon Year), to January 30, 2024 (2nd day of Snake Year). Please refer to each day schedule and registration in the “Upcoming Events”. All activities are at Lotus Pond Temple, except as stated. 28 Jan 2025 (29 of December Lunar Calendar) 16:30 Welcome guests 17:00 Orientation 18:00 Dinner 19:30 Be-in 23:30 New Year ‘s Welcoming Ceremony If you plan to stay overnight in the temple, one night costs HK$200 (Please pay upon registration arriving the temple) . If you plan to leave after the ceremony, please arrange your own transportation. Closing of Registration:  January 25, 2025 15:00 Please refer to next Upcoming Event for the schedules and registrations on 1st and 2nd day of Snake Year.