Pangea

By Yönten, on August 25th, 2009%

No name; just . . . Read More.

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Public Knowledge Project

By Yönten, on August 24th, 2009%

Sumeru now supports Open Journal System – a free, open-source software package used to create and publish academic journals. OJS was created by a consortium of universities led by Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, known as the Public Knowledge Project (http://pkp.sfu.ca/). OJS is used . . . Read More.

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Buddhism in Canada 2.0

By Yönten, on August 23rd, 2009%

The Buddhism in Canada website re-design is now one step closer to launch. Last week, Justin Wah Kan (working with Sumeru), received his MA in media production from Ryerson University for his work on the project. . . . Read More.

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Chogyam Trungpa

By Yönten, on August 22nd, 2009%

The first time I met Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche was in the Montreal Zen Centre on Versailles Street in Pointe-St-Charles, in 1969.

Trungpa had just arrived from Samye Monastery in Scotland after having given up his vows. He wore a beige suit with a . . . Read More.

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Moncton Buddhist Centre

By Yönten, on August 18th, 2009%

Buddhist Centres aren’t springing up like mushrooms these days, so it was inspiring to see that Montreal’s Tibetan Buddhist Temple has opened a sister centre in Moncton, New Brunswick. http://zawatulku.org/index.htm

Here’s a news story too, about this week-end’s inauguration . . . Read More.

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Buddhist Journals online

By Yönten, on August 17th, 2009%

Here are two open-access (i.e. free), peer-reviewed scholarly journals in Buddhist Studies…

Journal of Global Buddhism

Journal of . . . Read More.

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Murder in the Snow

By Yönten, on August 15th, 2009%

On September 30, 2006, more than 100 international mountain climbers witnessed Chinese border police shooting and killing three members of a group of Tibetan monks, nuns, laypeople and children trying to escape over the Nagpa Pass into Nepal. Some climbers were able to film the events . . . Read More.

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Canadian Buddhist News updates

By Yönten, on August 11th, 2009%

From the Peterborough Examiner, August 7, 2009:

Larry Tyldsley went searching for spirituality. The 47-year-old Peterborough resident said there was something missing from his life, the spiritual element. The former director of the New Canadians Centre, Tyldsley’s now a self-described “cultural explorer,” and embarked on . . . Read More.

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No name, just practice

By Yönten, on August 8th, 2009%

Interesting videos with a positive . . . Read More.

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MUSE – Academic Journal Articles on Buddhism

By Yönten, on August 6th, 2009%

Project MUSE is an initiative by Johns Hopkins University to provide easy keyword search through academic journals.

A search for “Buddhism” yields 2186 scholarly articles. . . . Read More.

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Montreal Religious Sites Project

By Yönten, on August 6th, 2009%

In 2006, MgGill University launched a project to document a variety of religious institutions outside of Montreal Judeo-Christian traditions. It includes ten interesting accounts and analyses of Buddhist centres in Montreal. The reports are available for download in PDF format, or viewable online in . . . Read More.

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“Dalai Lama Renaissance” now on DVD

By Yönten, on August 1st, 2009%

Award-winning film-maker Kashyar Darvich’s recent (much-lauded) documentary about a meeting between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and “40 of the world’s most innovative thinkers” is now available on DVD.

Here’s the trailer…

The official website . . . Read More.

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