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November 2024 Headquarters Update

In this issue:

• Temple Presidents Retreat: Building Connections and Strengthening Leadership
• Personnel: Farewell Reverend Masanari Yamagishi
• Condolences
• 2025 Giseikai Legislative Assembly, Feb. 7-8
• New Gatha Book – Praises of the Buddha 5^th Edition (see flyer)
• 2024 Ring Your Bell for Peace Day (see video)
• 2024 Minister’s Lay Assistant Retreat

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October 2024 Headquarters Update

In this issue:

• Bishop’s Aspiration at Wailuku Hongwanji’s 125th Anniversary Service
• Triple Celebration: Mulitmedia Resources and Triple Celebration Choir
• 2024-2025 Social Concerns Fund Drive
• 2025 Giseikai Legislative Assembly (key deadlines)
• PBA Lighting Our Way Banquet (11/15/24)
• Also enclosed: 2025 HHMH Master Calendar

September 2024 Headquarters Update

In this issue:

• Message from the Bishop : “Achieving the Goal Together”
• Condolence: Mr. Bruce Yoshiyuki Shimada
• Encouraging Participation in Voting (Committee on Social Concerns)
• Important Security Notice: Beware of Recent Phishing Emails
• Triple Celebration Report
• 2024 BSC Summer Session
• Poster Contest: Represent 2025 Theme/Slogan, “Nurturing Nembutsu: Cultivating Awareness” (see flyer) deadline extended to 11/30/24
• 2024 Honolulu and Oahu Districts’ Nembutsu Seminar (Kagirinaki Ai to Jihi, 10/25, see calendar item)
• Save the Dates: 2024 Kauai District Nembutsu Seminar with Rev. Higa (10/6, see calendar item), PBA Lighting Our Way Banquet (11/15, see on PBA website)
• See also: 6th Virtual Dharma School Gathering (11/17 with Trinidad Hunt)

August 2024 Headquarters Update

In this issue:

• Message from the Bishop at the 35th Annual Hiroshima Peace Service
• Maui Wildfire Update
• 2024 YBICSE Report
• 6th Virtual State Dharma School Gathering (11/17; see flyer)
• Minister’s Lay Assistant Retreat (10/12-10/13; see info & schedule)
• Peace Day: “Ring Your Bell For Peace Day” (9/20; see web page)
• 2025 Hongwanji Calendar Photos Call for Submissions (due 9/16; see flyer)
• PBA Lighting Our Way Banquet (11/15; see item on PBA website)
• 2024 Kauai District Nembutsu Seminar with Rev. Higa (10/6; see flyer)

July 2024 Headquarters Update

In this issue:

• Message from the Bishop on Adaptation
• Condolence
• Youth Specialist Update
• Triple Celebration
• BSC Summer Session and Satellite Seminars (see Kauai flyer)
• Buddhist Study Center Fellowship Club / Manoaphobia (see BSC news item)
• Jr. YBA convention
• Minister’s Lay Assistant Retreat
• 2023-2024 Social Concerns Fund Drive Update
• Basic Buddhism Online Course from Professor Kenneth Tanaka (see news item)
• See also:
  • The World Is Waiting for Buddhism and Shinran Shonin: Joy of the Nembutsu (8/24 Triple Celebration Online Buddhist Education Zoom Lecture with Rev. Gene Sekiya)
  • 2025 Hongwanji Calendar — Call for Submissions

June 2024 Headquarters Update

In this issue:

• Message from the Bishop: Vesak at the White House
• Ministerial Assignment: Rev. Sol Kal
• Triple Celebration Updates
• YBICSE Participants List
• Living Treasures of Hawai’i™ Request for Nominations
• YESS Camp 40 Report: Daruma & Me
• 61st Lay Association Convention: Sept. 8
• Bishop’s Award for Japanese Language School Students: Honorees
• Save the Dates
  • Dharma-Centered Living 101 – Session 2: August 3
  • The 50th BSC Summer Session: August 5-9
• See also: Updated 2024 Bon Service and Dance Schedule (as of 06/23/24)

May 2024 Headquarters Update

In this issue:

• Pacific Buddhist Academy Baccalaureate/Graduation Messages
  • Bishop Toshiyuki Umitani
  • Governor General of Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-Ha Bishop Shoyu Ogino
  • HHMH President Dr. Warren Tamamoto
• 2025-2029 Hongwanji Theme and Slogans
• Ministerial Assignments
• Introducing Our Communications Coordinator
• Triple Celebration: September 7-8
• Committee on Social Concerns: Dana Matching Grant Program
• BSC Summer Session: August 5-9
• Propagation Program Grant (up to $10k)
• See also: 2024 Obon Schedule (services and dances)

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