The Dharma Bum Temple is excited to announce the return of our Family Sangha on Saturday May 14th at 9am - 10:30am and an RSVP is required! Masks are also required for children and adults. Toddlers do not need masks. 

On April 15, 2018 we held a special ceremony reciting the Heart Sutra and planted a Bodhi Tree at the Dharma Bum Temple. It was a celebration of the one-year anniversary in the new Temple. The Bodhi Tree was a…

Dear Friends, 

Five years ago today we moved into our current home in University Heights. After ten years of the Temple being downtown (2007-2017) and eight years of Buddha for You being near SDSU (2009-2017), we had the incredible…

Dear Friends, 

I hope this finds you safe and well during these challenging yet inspiring days! Many of us have experienced tremendous pain and loss over the last two years. At the same time stories of heroic proportion surround…

Dear DBT Sangha, 

It brings me great joy to share the Dharma Bum Temple and Buddha for You will reopen Saturday March 12, 2022. Believe it or not March 12, 2020 was when the Temple first closed due to…

Waking up on Christmas morning to find a feel good story about our little Dharma Bum Temple on the front page of the local section in the San Diego Union Tribune is about as special as it gets! Special thank…

Dear Friends, 

This past year has been unlike anything we could have ever imagined! I first want to send love to all those who have been impacted by the pandemic. Lives have been lost and hearts have been…

As we wrap up the first two weeks of reopening the Dharma Bum Temple, I am deeply moved by the beauty of this community. It was so touching to see all the people who returned to the Temple and…

It brings me great joy to share that we have slowly reopened the Dharma Bum Temple and Buddha for You Gift Shop. The complete schedule of classes will continue to be updated on the website schedule. 

As we reopen…

This has been an incredibly challenging 15 months for the world as so much loss, pain and suffering continues. I first want to take a moment to recognize and remember those in our community who have lost loved ones due…

Dear Friends, 

Every Spring for my birthday it is my honor to humbly raise money for the Dharma Bum Temple. Last April however as the pandemic hit us all hard, it did not feel right to ask for support…

Dear Friends, 

Here we sit in crazy times, yet one thing that is constant is the heart of this community. I am reaching out and asking for donations so we can secure much-needed funds as we close out…

We received a beautiful email and would like to share it below: 

To all of the people who have worked to build and sustain the Dharma Bum Temple Sangha, 

Hello, my name is _______. I’m not sure if…

Hello All, 

The Temple received an email two weeks ago from the Mayor's office with regards to their exploration of reopening "Places of Worship". They were reaching out to many religious facilities in San Diego and putting together a…

Saturday night December 7th we hosted our second annual Volunteer Appreciation Event at the Dharma Bum Temple. It was a time to honor each person in this photo and about 20 others who could not be with us, as together…

It has become a tradition at the Dharma Bum Temple to feed the homeless on Thanksgiving morning. We do this every Thursday at 5PM but on Thanksgiving it is a special event and we are grateful for everyone who shows…

Every day I am in awe at the amount of people who walk into the Dharma Bum Temple. Some people are here for the first time and some have been here for many years. Some live in San Diego…

A sharing from DBT Co-Founder Jeffrey Zlotnik: 

There are moments at the Dharma Bum Temple where I completely stop and just be in tremendous gratitude. 95% of my time is spent building, creating, cleaning, funding, organizing, managing, putting shoes…

This past weekend I was invited to Temple Emanu-El by Rabbi Devorah Marcus to speak at a memorial service. The man who died was 55 years-old and a practicing Buddhist. His family are members of the Jewish Temple. I want…

The Dharma Bum Temple was pleased to welcome back and host Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu (also known as Ajaan Geoff) on June 13, 2019. Ajaan Geoff is a world renown Buddhist scholar and teacher (see more complete biography at bottom of post)…

In the beginning… 

A Buddhist Shrine is built to foster a peaceful environment allowing one to abide in presence, while cultivating compassion and wisdom. Shrines are created to evoke calm and clear states of mind brought on by the…

Join us on Saturday May 4th at 11am for a special ceremony blessing the new statues at the Dharma Bum Temple. Six weeks ago we welcomed our new Bodhisattva statues of Guan Yin, Manjusri and Samantabhadra. This is very auspicious…

Dear Friends, 

Every Spring for my birthday I raise money for the Dharma Bum Temple. It has been an amazing start to 2019 here at the Dharma Bum Temple! Each week we see 500-700 people who come thru these…

Sending a very special thank you to our Afternoon Meditation Planning Team of Natalie Oganesyan, Tayler Jackson Buffington, Wendy Salazar and David Craven for implementing a NEW PROGRAM at the Temple. We are now hosting weekly meditation and Dharma Talks…