Just added to the Sumeru directory of Canadian Buddhist organizations:
Parideha Forest Monastery in Ste. Anne RM, Manitoba
Bangladesh Buddhist Association of Canada in Mississauga, Ontario
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The Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic has just celebrated their 10th year of operation! Congratulations to Lynette Genju Monteiro and Frank Musten for their long-term work in the field of MBSR. As part of their current initiatives, the OMc has launched a Mindfulness integrator on paper.li, bringing . . . Read More. Mindful magazine is a new periodical about all things related to mindfulness, with topic areas including: In Body & Mind In Love & Relationships At Home At Work In Your Life Mindfulness Practice The Mindful Society The Science Partners News Resources Mindful Voices The second issue . . . Read More. Canada’s weekly news magazine, Macleans, has just published an article exploring the tension between mindfulness based stress reduction vs Buddhism, under the title “Mindfulness goes corporate – and purists aren’t pleased.” In the article, author Anne Kingston discusses the secular Buddhism notion from the perspective of . . . Read More. The 2013 Blogisattva Award categories have been announced, based on the 2008 awards. The team is looking for keep/drop/modify suggestions before finalizing them. Have your say at: http://blogisattva.blogspot.ca/2013/04/tentative-categories-of-awards-for-2013.html Chris Beal, at Buddhist Fiction Blog, has recently posted an interview with Ruth Ozeki about her new novel: A Tale for the Time Being. Read it AT THIS LINK. We are pleased to inform you that we have received a “new” article for our History of Buddhism in Canada page: Buddhism in Metropolitan Toronto: a Preliminary Overview, by Suwanda Sugunasiri, originally published in the Journal of Canadian Ethnic Studies, XXI, No. 2, in 1989. . . . Read More. A Buddhist cookbook via Lions Gate Buddhist Priory… Dear Friends, We are very pleased to announce the publication of our new Cook Book: Kwan Yin Loves Pie Good vegetarian food to delight the heart and stomach Kwan Yin is the Buddha-Mother of Great Compassion. A . . . Read More. Tibetan Bibliographic Instruction Workshop East Asian Library Classroom, 8th floor Robarts Library (130 St. George Street) Date: Tuesday, April 9 Time: 11am-12:15pm Led by Dr Lauran Hartley, Columbia University’s Tibetan Collection librarian and the U of T’s new Liaison librarian for Tibetan Studies (see story . . . Read More. JOB POSTING Shambhala Sun Foundation Associate Art Director We are seeking a colleague to join our editorial team to design elegant and effective layouts for the Shambhala Sun magazine, perform production- management duties, and undertake other design tasks to support the work of the Shambhala . . . Read More. This is to announce that the recent research on the Buddhapuja in Sinhala Buddhism and Arahant Mahinda as its Redactor by Prof. Suwanda H J Sugunasiri is now available on YouTube, hosted by www.torontobodymind.ca. Here is the URL: https://www.youtube.com/user/torontobodymind. Full text for FREE download: http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/search?q=sugunasiri&submit=Go&rep=tspc You . . . Read More. Wow. Less than a week since launching our global Buddhist eco-initiative, Plot to save the earth, from the Oak Ridges Moraine and we already have 104 members in our open Facebook group, sending in pictures from all over the planet. Visit us there to see . . . Read More. Social Media Guidelines for so-called Vajrayana students, from Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche @ Siddhartha’s Intent: Social Media Guidelines for so-called Vajrayana students published on January 17, 2013 If you think or believe that you are a student of Vajrayana – whether or not that’s true is another matter . . . Read More. We received notice of this initiative recently from the Buddhist Fiction Blog: Special Invitation for Currently Reading: Buddha on a Midnight Sea by Francesca Hampton Posted on January 18, 2013 Happy New Year! This month I’m going to read Francesca Hampton’s collection of short stories in Buddha on . . . Read More. Rev. Heng Sure, from Gold Mountain Monastery in San Francisco, has written a fascinating article for the Interfaith Observer about using modern social media tools to translate ancient Buddhist texts. Here’s the article: http://theinterfaithobserver.org/journal-articles/2013/1/15/buddhist-translators-without-borders.html Alexander Duncan’s “Dharma Notes” is a revised edition of his earlier work. Duncan began his quest for the ultimate spiritual truth in 1964, at the age of ten, when his grade 4 teacher called him a “superstitious fool.” Over a period of 48 years this quest . . . Read More. PRESS RELEASE from CJBS (Oct 31, 2012) The Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies is pleased to present groundbreaking research in its SPECIAL ISSUE (No. 8, 2012) on the Authorship of the Buddhapūjā ‘Homage to the Buddha’. In this issue, Canadian Buddhist Scholar Prof. Suwanda H . . . Read More. Epitome of the Pali Canon is a new book from Chroniker Press in Toronto, published on Lulu. This book is a collection of Wikipedia articles pertaining to the Pali Canon, the oldest collection of Buddhist scriptures, and is reprinted with permission. |
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