Special Events

All Sangha Beautification Day

Saturday, October 24
10:00 AM – Noon with a Nepalese lunch!

Let’s join our various traditions together to beautify our Center with mindfulness and care.

Be Chenresig: Bringing Compassion and Wisdom to this Troubled World

Sunday, October 25
2:00 PM
At the Yellow Springs Dharma Center
Please note this will be outside; bring a chair

A teaching on the Chenresig Sadhana by H.H. Dalai Lama

With Translator and Teacher, Tenzin Jesse
Bodhiheart Sangha, Seattle WA

Tenzin Jesse, a Dayton native, ordained in 2004 by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is now a lay dharma teacher and Tibetan translator. In the 1990’s, she studied the classical Tibetan language with Gelug, Kagyu, and Nyingma teachers and has written a Tibetan language textbook. She completed the studies of the seven-year Lam Tsong Khapa Master’s Program, a traditional Buddhist monastic curriculum.

In 2006, together with Theravadan nun, Venerable Dhammadina, she founded Bodhiheart Sangha in Seattle. She teaches from her translations in “a handbook for Dharma practitioners”, A Dew Drop, Dream, A Water-Moon.

2026 FALL SESSHIN

Friday, Oct. 9 (5:00 PM) — Tuesday, October 13 (4:00 PM)
At the Jesuit Spiritual Center of Milford, Ohio

For more information: zen@ysdharma.org
Download registration form here.

Sesshin (the Japanese word literally means “to touch the heart-mind”) is an opportunity to draw from the tremendous strength of people practicing together, to receive personal guidance in private meetings with the teacher, and to experience the deep stillness that lies within each of us. The sesshin can become an inspiring spiritual experience for anyone, irrespective of previous experience or religious affiliation.