Khmer monk lauded in Vaughan, ON

Ven. Nil Choen, resident monk at the Khmer Buddhist Temple in Maple, Ontario, was recently profiled in the Vaughan News. Here’s the link…

http://www.vaughantoday.ca/story.php?id=2106

Montréal Tibetan Bazaar #20

Amazingly – the 2oth anniversary (!) of this fabulous event coming up Nov 27-28, 2009. Details at www.tibet.ca

Here’s a story about it from the Montreal Gazette…

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Tibetans+from+home+find+comfortable+nesting+place+Longueuil/2274108/story.html

50 million hostages

Revolution of the Spirit in Burma is a short Fierce Light Video Flash documentary about Aung San Suu Kyi and the way of non-violence.

More information at www.worlddharma.com

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Fierce Light

Velcrow Ripper’s Toronto-based film production company specializes in documentaries about the integration of spirituality and activism.

Fierce Light – the movie trailer

Also from Velcrow Ripper:

Prayers for Bat Nha, a short documentary (Fierce Light Flash!) . . . Read More.

Dramgyen – The Lute

Endless Knot Films  is a Tibetan-Canadian production company.www.endlessknotfilms.com

Dramgyen – The Lute is a short film they made about the Tibetan-Canadian immigrant experience. You can watch it online at http://www.endlessknotfilms.com/ekf/dramgyen.html

Champion of Compassion is their documentary of the 2004 . . . Read More.

Condolences

It is with great sadness that we report the imminent death of 500,000+ animals in the Gadhi Mai Mela sacrifice in Nepal later this month. This “festival” which takes place every five years, is the largest animal sacrifice on the planet. Requests by . . . Read More.

First Frost

Canadian geese Among the water lilies Only just for now

Karma Yönten Gyatso, Richmond Hill 2009

A Sumeru poem

Ephemera update

Here are the records of many significant Vajrayana events in Toronto between 1998 and 2002. As you can see, it is a great start, but very incomplete. We owe it to future practitioners and historians to complete this record for all Buddhist . . . Read More.

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MY THOUGHTS ON PHOTOGRAPHY, CAPTURED FOREVER IN 19 SNAPSHOTS

The Album

I confess to being an image collector. I have postcards from Asia, orange wrappers from Italy, orange crate labels from 1930s California, textile labels from Africa, packaging from . . . Read More.

Tibet before 1950: Digital Photo Archives

The Tibet Album: British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950

http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/tibet_prm-collections.html

This collection of 4000+ photographs is from the Pitt Rivers Museum and the British Museum. It is by far the most extensive digital resource I found on this subject, . . . Read More.

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