His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche will visit Kagyu Kunkhyab Chuling Vajrayana Buddhist Centre in Burnaby, BC, in the spring of 2011. Details to follow from the centre’s . . . Read More.
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Thich Nhat Hanh, world-honoured Vietnamese Zen Master, peace activist, and inspirational teacher, will be in Vancouver in August 2011. Here is the information about his visit, from his hosts – the University of British Columbia… ————————————- The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh and monastics of Plum Village, Deer Park . . . Read More. Shambhala’s Sakyong Mipham and his wife the Sakyong Wangmo are pleased to announce the birth of their daughter, Drukmo Yeshe Sarasvati Ziji Mukpo, in Halifax on August 11. For full details, visit the Shambhala Community . . . Read More. Tulku Sherab Dorje is a Montreal native who has been recognized as the throne-holder of a Rimey lineage monastery in Golok, eastern Tibet. He is fluent in Tibetan and well-known as a translator. His recent memoir, “A Path Strewn with Flowers and Bones” is . . . Read More. An enlightening short video of Goenka’s speach to the UN Peace Summit . . . Read More. Not so easy to find Buddhist jokes, so I made one up: It’s 2020 and the Canadian government decides to host a Buddhist conference in Nunavut as part of their initiative to demonstrate national presence in the north. They send a lama, a . . . Read More. Buddhists have been in Canada for more than 100 years, but Canadian Buddhism remains in many ways a fragmented collection of solitudes. Wild Geese is the first serious attempt to understand the multiple realities of Canadian Buddhism in an organized fashion. As such, it . . . Read More. Wild Geese: Buddhism in Canada McGill-Queen’s University Press Paper (0773536671) 9780773536678 / CA $29.95, US $29.95  Comments are closed  Buddhism in Canada, Teacher Stories, Temple Stories  Buddhist community, Education, History, Publishing Buddhism in America, a historical overview by renowned Professor Charles Prebish, is now available as a free e-book download from Scribd. At first glance it appears to be a welcome perspective, and one of the few books about this subject other than the excellent . . . Read More. Comments are closed Buddhism around the World, Publishing in a digital world, Teacher Stories Buddhist community, Publishing, Teachers, Temples Controversial new article from Canada’s leading news magazine, that’s for sure… . . . Read More. Comments are closed Buddhism around the World, Buddhism in Canada, Teacher Stories Buddhism, Dalai Lama Ven. Nil Choen, resident monk at the Khmer Buddhist Temple in Maple, Ontario, was recently profiled in the Vaughan News. Here’s . . . Read More. Comments are closed Buddhism in Canada, Teacher Stories Buddhist community, Teachers, Theravada, Toronto 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!) about Thich Nhat Hanh’s . . . Read More. 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 faith . . . Read More. Comments are closed Buddhism in Canada, Teacher Stories, Temple Stories Buddhist community, Education, Ephemera, Vajrayana The Tibetan Cultural Centre in Etobicoke hosted this event on September 23, 24 and 25, 2009. www.maitreyaproject.org Cristian Cowan, who is travelling with the exhibition, is keeping an excellent blog full of interesting facts . . . Read More. Canadian temples are having trouble bringing in qualified monks because of immigration rules… . . . Read More. Here are some links to information about His Holiness’ recent visit to Montréal. Sorry I wasn’t able to post them before . . . Read More. Here is a site with information about upcoming visits to Canada by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan . . . Read More. Comments are closed Buddhism in Canada, Teacher Stories Buddhist community, Dalai Lama, Teachers, Toronto 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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