Chan Meditation Center Opens Registration for November 24-29 Water-Land Ceremony
The Chan Meditation Center in Elmhurst, Queens, New York, opened registration on November 8 for the 2026 Dharma Drum Mountain Great Compassion Water-Land Dharma Service, to be held online from November 24 to 29, with public talks alongside the ceremony.
The Chan Meditation Center is the New York branch of Taiwan's Dharma Drum Mountain, founded by the late Master Sheng Yen. It offers year-round meditation courses, Buddhist lectures and ceremonies in Chinese and English, many of them in Chinese, and is a familiar place of practice for Chinese Buddhists in Queens.
In addition to the Water-Land service beginning November 24, the center's November calendar includes a Great Compassion Repentance Ceremony held in person on November 15 from 2 to 4 p.m., conducted in Chinese with no registration required. The full schedule and online participation links are posted on the center's November calendar.
The center is located at 90-56 Corona Ave. in Elmhurst, Queens, with an additional temporary location at 91-26 Corona Ave.; participants should confirm the site for each event in the activity notices.
Source: Chan Meditation Center
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