HomeNewsBishop of the Buddhist Churches of America to visit Spokane Temple

Bishop of the Buddhist Churches of America to visit Spokane Temple

By: Tracy Simmons

Date:

January 9, 2015

Related stories

Our Sponsors

[todaysdate]

The Rev. Kodo Hiromichi Umezu, bishop of the Buddhist Churches of America, will give a Dharma talk at 10:30 a.m., Jan. 11 at The Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S. Perry.

The talk will be followed with a question and answer session.

Umezu is the former director of the Center for Buddhist Education in Berkeley, Calif., where he created and oversaw all of the Buddhist education programs at the Jodo Shinshu Center.

According to a press release, “Knowledge, warmth and enthusiasm is what really defines Rev. Umezu. You will be inspired by his talk and we will give him the unique opportunity to meet the Spokane Sangha.”

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

Our Sponsors