7th Annual Banquet (2008)

Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008          Time: 6PM to 10PM Note: Program will begin promptly at 6:30PM! Place: Golden Bridge Restaurant 50 Bowery Street, Manhattan, NY 10013 Note: Parking lot available on 40 Elizabeth Street.

The Legendary Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma was an Indian Buddhist monk who traveled from India to China in the 5th century AD and propagated Mahayana Buddhism in China, which in China came to be known as Chan Buddhism. The Chinese also renamed him Da’mo or Ta’mo. This form of Buddhism has virtually died out in both countries, but is practiced … Read more

Zen and Dharma Workshop: An Analytical Study of Our Mind Process

Zen and Dharma Workshop: An Analytical Study of Our Mind Process Conducted by Venerable Yung Ku Date: Thursdays, October 23 to December 18, 2008 (8 Sessions) Time: 6PM to 8:30PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan Fee: $50 (Non-Member) | Free (Member/Student) Click Here to learn how to … Read more

The Last Emperor of Flushing’s Final Manifesto

Alvin Eng is playwright, performer and adjunct Professor of Creative Writing on the English Department faculties of John Jay, BMCC and Fordham. He will be reading from “THE LAST EMPEROR of FLUSHING’S FINAL MANIFESTO–An Imperial Memoir in Queens English”–the prose adaptation of his acclaimed memoir monologues, The Flushing Cycle and The Last Emperor of Flushing. … Read more

The Fortune Cookie Chronicles

In The Fortune Cookie Chronicles, author Jennifer 8. Lee takes readers on a remarkable journey that is both foreign and familiar: penetrating this subculture by traveling the world (and almost every American state) in her quest to understand Chinese food and the people who make it. Her journey took her to the hometown of General … Read more