Annual OBON FESTIVAL
EVERYONE IS INVITED!!! Free Admission! Please come and enjoy Southern Alameda County Buddhist Church’s Buddhist Festival of Obon. We will have Buddhist Dancing, Japanese Music, an O Nami Taiko Drum Performance and Japanese Foods. An enjoyable event for everyone!
Colorful kimono-clad
participants gather for the Obon
dance - a memorial day for our departed beloved ones and a day to give thanks
to them. With deep felt joy and gratitude, we honor and remember our deceased loved ones whose very existence made our own lives possible.
Saturday August 9, 2014
Food Sales: 5:00 pm – 6:00
pm
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Obon Dance: 7:00 pm
Obon Dance Practices (Optional):
At 7:30 pm on 7/28, 7/29, 7/31,
8/04, 8/06, 8/07 in the Sangha Hall at SACBC. Dance Practices are OPTIONAL – need not practice to attend and join our Obon Dance. EVERYONE is invited to DANCE!
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Obon Service:
Sunday,
August 10, 2014 at 10:00am SACBC will conduct its Annual Buddhist Spiritual Services for all our beloved ones called Obon
Service. Those who lost their beloved ones are especially welcome. We will conduct a special service for them called Hatsubon (First Obon Service). We have invited a guest speaker, Rev. Kodo Umezu, Bishop of the Buddhist Churches of America.
Significance of
Obon:
Obon “Kangi-e,” a “Joyous Gathering with Dharma Dance. The Obon dance is a “Dance of Joy.” Colorful kimono-clad participants gather for the Obon
dance - a memorial day for our departed beloved ones and a day to give thanks
to them. With deep felt joy and
gratitude, we honor and remember our deceased loved ones whose very existence made our own lives possible. We
also give special reckoning to our loved ones whose earthly lives ended within
the past year; this observance is called “Hatsu-bon”
(First Obon). In a deepest sense, our caring and gratitude extends to all people and all living beings.
