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Current events can be found on the Chapel House home page.  This page lists activities from recent years.

Visiting Monks from Burma:  U Pyi Nya Zawta and Agga Nya, Tuesday, November 16, 2010

• 11:30 a.m.:  A time for blessings and protection (paritta) followed by the offering of food (dana) to the monks, lunch of South Asian food provided, in the ALANA Cultural Center Multipurpose Room
• 4:30 p.m.:  Award-winning documentary video, "Burma: VJ," followed by discussion with the monks, Humanities Colloquium Series, in The Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall 105)

Events in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Chapel House and the Fund for the Study of the Great Religions:

"Key Rituals in the Religious Life of Pure Land Buddhists," a talk by Reverend Professor Nobuo Nomura and Reverend N. Kashiwahara, Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 4:10 p.m., in The Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall 105).

"Music from Incredible India," a concert by Geetha Bennett, Dr. Frank Bennett, and Rusty Gillette, Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 4:30 p.m., in the ALANA Cultural Center Multipurpose Room.

"Zen for the Modern World," a talk by Jeff Shore, Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 4:30-6:00 p.m., in the Persson Auditorium (Persson Hall 027).

"Creative Responses to Religious Pluralism," a talk by Diana L. Eck, Thursday, October 8, 2009, 4:30-6:00 p.m., in the Persson Auditorium (Persson Hall 027).

"Miles Bronson:  Alumnus, Apostle to Assam -- A Tale of Two Valleys," a talk by Frederick S. Downs in the Humanities Colloquium Series, Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 4:30-6:00 p.m., .

Masterpieces of Chinese Music performed by the group Music from China, Sunday, September 20, 2009, 3:30 p.m., in the Colgate Memorial Chapel. 

Dana and Pirit:  Sri Lankan Buddhist Ceremonies of Almsgiving and Blessing, April 21, 2009.

• 11:30 a.m.:  Dana, an almsgiving of food, homily, and blessings, followed by a South Asian meal, in the ALANA Cultural Center Multipurpose Room
• 7:00 p.m.:  Pirit, ceremony of blessings and protection offered in chant, in the O'Connor Media Lounge (The Coop)

Inaugural Event Celebrating the 50th Anniversary:  "Open to Surprise and Friendship," a talk by Professor Charles Hallisey '75, Thursday, April 2, 2009, 4:15-5:45 p.m., in The Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall 105).

Celebrating Colgate in India:  A Glimpse of the Legacy of Bill Skelton, Tuesday, October 28, 2008

• 4:15 p.m.:  "Vignettes of Creative Cross-Cultural Undergraduate Education," a talk by some of Bill Skelton's former students, Humanities Colloquium Series, in The Robert Ho Lecture Room (Lawrence Hall 105)
• 8:00 p.m.:  An evening of South Indian Devotional Music in honor of Bill Skelton with Geetha Ramanathan Bennett, Frank Bennett, and Rusty Gillette, at the Palace Theater, 19 Utica Street, Hamilton