September 2007

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Bhante Wimala to Visit Gettysburg

Traveling Buddhist Monk Bhante Wimala has accepted an invitation from the Unitarian Universalists of Gettysburg, 136 S. Stratton St., Gettysburg, to speak at a Sunday service at 10:30 a.m. on September 16, 2007.

For three decades Bhante Wimala has been traveling the globe spreading universal messages of peace, loving-kindness, and non-violence. Bhante is co-founder of the Triple Gem Society-Center for Conscious Evolution, an international humanitarian organization. The Triple Gem Society has developed and sponsored charitable projects in numerous countries throughout the World. In the United States, Triple Gem Society helps sponsor a prison ministry designed to bring messages of hope, loving-kindness, forgiveness and rehabilitation to incarcerated men and women.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama introduces Bhante Wimala as the “monk from Sri Lanka who spends his time traveling and teaching in the spirit of monks at the time of the Buddha.” Bhante has traveled the world conducting workshops and teachings on meditation, world peace, and evolutionary consciousness. He is “like the cleansing rain, elementally real. He personifies clarity, love, joy and calm peaceful presence. ” Bhante will discuss techniques of meditation designed to help you live your daily life with conscious focus and inner peace. You will share in the profound depth of knowledge, expert guidance and wise council of this joyful, pioneering monk. The public is invited.

Later Sunday evening, Bhante Wimala will offer meditation instructions, discussions and a guided meditation at the Buddhist Meditation Group, meeting at the Unitarian Universalists of Gettysburg, beginning at 6:30 p.m. For more information on Bhante’s visit to Gettsyburg please contact John Mulligan at (717) 359-0510 or e-mail Bodhihouse@yahoo.com.

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