The Buddhist temple observe a few major Buddhist holidays like Lunar calendar New Year, this varies each year as dictated by the lunar, Buddha’s enlightenment/nirvana day in January, Buddha’s birthday in May, Vietnamese mother’s day in July or August which slip my mind at the moment and perhaps 1-2 more day. I will ask the head nuns for the calendar and post it here on my next visit.
As far as this year 2017, our lunar new year fall on the weekend of Jan 28, 2017. It’s extremely crowded time of the year to visit by most native Vietnamese. If you’re a non-observer or non Vietnamese, try to avoid this occasion but you’ll miss out on some traditional vegan food that is available/made or offer during this time of the year.
For those that don’t mind the crowd, this weekend, we will offer additional snacks for sale to fundraising in the tent in the parking lot, on top of the food stall inside the basement.
There will be a variety of sweets, glutinous snacks, and our ever popular pandan flavor Vietnamese style coconut waffle.
There will also pilgrim bus tour visiting 10 Buddhist temples through out the bay area and Giac Minh temple is the first stop. So there will be lots going on so parking is scared. Try to park at Starbucks and walk over to our temple.
