3 Year Piligrimage
A National Buddhist Memorial Ceremony for Asian American Ancestors
Now that the March 16, 2024 memorial and pilgrimage in Antioch, California has passed, we encourage you to share the videos and the press coverage of the ceremony. Please take a moment to enjoy the photo gallery as well. We also encourage you to revisit the “Resilience, Recovery, Repair” online speaker series that provided context for the Antioch memorial. The information below is being kept for archival purposes. Thank you again for your support of May We Gather.
may we gather to HONOR OUR LOSSES.
We will gather on Saturday, March 16, 2024 to mark the three-year memorial of the 2021 Atlanta-area shootings, which claimed the lives of eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, including the 63-year-old Buddhist Yong Ae Yue. We remember that these shootings are woven into a broader tapestry of anti-Asian animus, religious bigotry, and injustice against women. The suffering of racial, religious, and gender violence affects us all.
May we gather to liberate together.
With palms together, we invite spiritual friends of all backgrounds to join us for the March 16, 2024 national pilgrimage. Together, we will recover, commemorate, and celebrate Asian American Buddhist history and strengthen the ties of kinship that connect us all.
May we gather to uplift our ancestors.
When our Chinese immigrant ancestors came to the United States in the 19th century, we faced acts of exclusion and destruction. We remember the scapegoating of Chinese women that incited the burning of Antioch Chinatown in 1876, and the subsequent loss of a temple on Wyatt Street. In 2021, Antioch became the first city in the United States to sign a formal apology acknowledging its history of discrimination against its Asian American community.