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Friends of Shasta Abbey made possible the 12 new meditation screens used during the recent Platform Sutra Retreat. FOSA provided the funds for the materials and much of the labor to make them. The old screens are now in use at the Sky Creek Dharma Center in Chico for use by the Chico Meditation Group.

Successful FOSA projects include of the printing of Cooking with a Gentle Heart, a cookbook that includes Shasta Abbey's favorite vegetarian recipes; the purchase and installation of four hot water heaters for Abbey buildings; the framing of 100 Avalokiteshwara prints that are used to decorate the Buddha Hall during the Avalokiteshwara Ceremonies throughout the year (these lovely images beautify the Vimalikirti Hall and the Bodhidharma Hall when they are not in the Buddha Hall); the purchase of a log splitter for the monastery; improved lighting in the monastery kitchen; expansion of the lay and monastic libraries; and helped with storm damage cleanup after the January 2010 blizzard.