You're Invited ! - We'd like to invite you and your family to attend our special Lunar New Year celebration at our center on Sunday, February 22, 2026, starting from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
Activities at this Event:
- New Year Prayer and Blessing.
- Asian Buddhist Spiritual and Cultural Activities.
- Exciting Performances: Lion Dance, Dragon Dance, and Flower Dance.
- Free Authentic, Eastern Cuisine, fireworks, etc. !
Quick-Fun Facts about this Lunar New Year:
- It is also called the "Spring Festival."
- Lunar New Year starts a new animal’s zodiac year, which festival date changes every year.
- The year of 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse, which signifies a period of strong forward momentum, freedom, and bold action, following the reflective and transformative Year of the Snake. The Fire Horse symbolizes energy, ambition, leadership, and the potential for rapid positive change, encouraging us to act with courage, intuition, and mindful awareness.
- 1/4 of the world’s people celebrate it.
- Family's reunion lunch and dinner are rituals during the first three days of the year.
- The Lunar New Year is annually the largest usage of fireworks on the planet.
- The celebration decorations during this occasion are mostly in red.
- Starting from the first to the 15th day of the first lunar month, people are on the move and begin with a period of praying for well-beings, feasting, honoring family's values, and remembering ancestors.
Event Summary:
Among East and Southeast Asian cultures, Lunar New Year is one of the most essential celebrations of the year, culturally, spiritually, and economically. As a result, we would like to invite you and your family to join in this Special Lunar New Year to celebrate our differences and diversities by developing unconditional love and cherishing each other for exactly who we are so that we can come together to overcome intolerance, discrimination, and violence to make a strong, beautiful, and global community.
We look forward to seeing you and your family soon.
About our organization: It is a Buddhist monastic and laity community that emphasizes practicing Buddhist mindfulness, loving-kindness, and broad mindedness that are beneficial to family, community, and society.
