(Hybrid: In-person) Buddhist Sadhana: Precepts

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Christopher Key Chapple Visiting Teacher

Location Hill Street Center
Experience Levels All
This class is a donation based class. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Dates
- Sunday, March 1, 2026 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM PT

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This event is the in-person version of a hybrid class series which will take place both in-person and online. To register for the online version, please click here.
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Five vows guide Buddhist practice, held in common by followers of Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. Each week we will practice and discuss each in turn: harmlessness, commitment to truth, abstention from theft, chastity, and abandonment of intoxicants. Historical examples will be given from various Buddhist monastic and lay traditions. The class will include conversations regarding their enduring relevance in light of identitarianism and consumerism.

Schedule: Sundays, 8am to 10am PT at the Hill Street Center.
March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

Suggested donation: $150 – $200. Please offer the highest amount you can afford.

Christopher Key Chapple Visiting Teacher

Christopher Key Chapple is Doshi Distinguished Clinical Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and founding director of the Master of Arts in Yoga Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He has published nearly thirty books, many on various aspects of Buddhist faith and practice. Chris began Zazen at age 13 under the guidance of the Zen... Read more

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