Emperor Liang Repentance: 7 Days to Clear the Mind, San Francisco
About this Event
Life gets heavy at times. Anxiety, trouble sleeping, a restlessness we cannot quite name. In Buddhism these are called obstructions, and there are real tools for working with them. We would like to invite you to one of the oldest.
The Emperor Liang Repentance is a Buddhist practice designed to help with exactly this. Over seven days, chanting together in the hall, what has been sitting heavy can begin to loosen. Practitioners often report feeling calmer, steadier, and more patient with themselves and with others, and find that their meditation deepens afterward.
The ceremony was composed roughly fifteen hundred years ago, in the Liang dynasty. Emperor Wu, grieving his late consort and troubled by what he saw of her suffering, asked an assembly of monks to compile a repentance that could reach her. It became the longest and most widely practiced repentance in Chinese Buddhism, and it is rarely offered in the West.
September 5 to 11, 2026
4:00 AM Morning Ceremony
8:00 AM Morning Session
12:00 PM Vegetarian lunch, offered to all
2:00 PM Afternoon Session
6:00 PM Evening Ceremony
7:20 PM Dharma Talk with Master YongHua
Come for one session or for all seven days. No experience is needed and there is no cost to attend.
Dharma Treasury Temple
3201 Ulloa St, San Francisco, CA 94116
(628) 280-2720 | [email protected]
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