Peter Renner, heartmind, end-of-life care, Fernwood Zendo, Victoria

This is good… http://heartmind.ca/

Sumeru launches on Twitter

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Awake in the World

Filmmaker: Andréa de Keijzer

This video was created for Michael Stone’s book Awake in the World, in which he teaches the essentials of mindfulness and yoga practice, combining simplicity with the notion of interdependence of all beings. Michael is the teacher at Centre of Gravity . . . Read More.

Shambhala News site launched

Shambhala has launched a new news site, Shambhala News, specifically oriented to the non-Shambhala community, as opposed to the Shambhala Times Community News site which is focused more on practitioners within the organization’s 170 centres around the world. The new site will be run out . . . Read More.

Mahamevnawa videos, Markham, ON

Official Opening (in Sri Lankan and English):

Wesak 2010:

Return to Sender, Address Unknown

We’ve mailed out more than 350 copies of the 2012 Survey of Canadian Buddhist Organizations to centres that did not respond to our original digital request. The responses are beginning to arrive, and will be analyzed over the summer.

In the meanwhile, here is a . . . Read More.

Zen of emptiness and existence – Master Tam Shek-wing in Toronto

In April, 2012, Master Tam Shek-wing was invited to give a lecture at the University of Toronto. This video is part one of that talk: Zen of emptiness and existence: Buddhist Thinking on Cause and Effect on the Modern Society. Mandarin Chinese, with English translation. . . . Read More.

Natural Appearances, Natural Liberation – book launch video

Just discovered somebody at the event last August caught it on video. Here are Master Tam’s speech and some other presentations.

The Buddhist Garden – coming soon from Sumeru Books

Coming soon… The Buddhist Garden: A Journey from Kyoto to Western Tibet, by Dennis Winters. This book explores the spiritual, psychological and physical history of Buddhist geomancy in the creation of sacred meditation gardens. Dennis is a well-known Canadian landscape architect and Vajrayana practitioner.

Dirty Laundry

Unfortunately, the story of dharma in the west is not all sweetness and light. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama says: “When teachers break the precepts, behaving in ways that are clearly damaging to themselves and others, students must face the situation, even though this can be . . . Read More.

Sumeru Books launches on Facebook

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Shambhala acquisition of Snow Lion gets mixed reviews

Last week, Shambhala and Snow Lion jointly announced that “… as of May 10, dedicated Tibetan Buddhist publisher Snow Lion Publications is ‘a part of the Shambhala Publications family.’ This will add some 300 titles, including many by the Dalai Lama, to the Shambhala catalog. . . . Read More.

Sensei Fredrich Ulrich of the Manitoba Buddhist Temple in multifaith video

From the Winnipeg Free Press: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/faith/video-video-celebrates-winnipegs-diverse-faith-communities-150799865.html

Integrating Asian Healing Traditions into Mental Health Care

The Centre for Diversity in Counselling & Psychotherapy, in Toronto, will be presenting The 7th Critical Multicultural Counselling & Psychotherapy Conference:

INTEGRATING ASIAN HEALING TRADITIONS INTO MENTAL HEALTH CARE June 1st & 2nd, 2012 OISE (250 Bloor Street West)

A PDF of the conference poster . . . Read More.

Wesak Toronto 2012 in review

Here is a press release from the Buddhist Council of Canada, recapping the proceedings at their joint Wesak ceremony held on the May Full Moon, May 5th, at Queens Park in Toronto: wesak 2012 Press Release may 05 2012

It should also be noted that . . . Read More.

20+ GTA temples gather for Unity Vesak 6.9.12

Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education hosts Robert Thurman + Victor Chan

Reflections on half a century with the Dalai Lama with Robert Thurman and Victor Chan

When: Monday, May 28, 2012 Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm Where: SFU-Woodward’s Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

In this one-of-kind conversation Thurman and Chan will share stories about meeting and spending time with the Dalai Lama. They will explore . . . Read More.

Ajahn Sona lecture + retreat, Vancouver, 5.12-13.12

The Feeling of Freedom with Venerable Ajahn Sona of the Birken Forest Monastery (‘Sitavana’). Poster available here:

EVENING TALK – Saturday, May 12th, 7:30 p.m. Location: Room A122a (main lobby), Langara College, 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver

MEDITATION RETREAT – Sunday, May 13th, 9:00 a.m. . . . Read More.

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