Writing Workshops
What you think you create, what you feel you attract, what you imagine you become.
Writing Workshops
Every summer the Vihara offers writing workshops for children. These workshops help the younger generation of the Vihara community express ideas correctly, clearly, elegantly, and powerfully. Such skills are essential for those who strive to excel in education.
Bhante Rahula conducts these workshops. Teaching writing and English literature, besides Buddhism, is his other expertise. His specialization for the PhD at Texas Tech is rhetoric, the art of writing and speaking. He has over fifteen years of experience in teaching college composition and rhetoric.
Held on either Saturdays or Sundays during summer, these workshops include separate sessions for high school and middle school children. Importantly, the lessons will also be useful to adults who expect to sharpen their skills in writing.
Our Teacher
Ven. Basnagoda Rahula Thero
Venerable Basnagoda Rahula Thero is the president of Houston Buddhist Vihara. He is also a professor of English, public speaker, and Dhamma and meditation teacher. Ven. Rahula became a novice monk during his childhood at Attanagalla Royal Temple in Sri Lanka. After receiving Higher Ordination and a bachelors degree in Buddhist philosophy, he immigrated to the United States in 1990. Ven. Rahula earned his M.A. in literature from the University of Houston-Clear Lake and Ph.D. in English from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He is the author of Beautiful Living: Buddha’s Way to Prosperity, Wisdom, and Inner Peace and The Buddha’s Teachings on Prosperity: at Home, at Work, in the World.