Here’s an article from the National Post about preparations for the visit of HH the Dalai Lama to Toronto in October, 2010.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/09/27/monks-volunteers-helping-dalai-lama-roll-into-town/
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The Maitreya Sacred Relic Tour is returning to Canada briefly in 2010, and will be hosted at the Pho-Hien Buddhist Community Temple: 8, 9 & 10 October 2010 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Friday: 6pm Opening Ceremony Saturday: 10am to 7pm Sunday: 10am to 5pm Pho-Hien . . . Read More. 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 website: http://kkc-kdol.org/content/kalu-rinpoche-2011-visit 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… NOTE: This information is updated in other posts on . . . 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 News link… http://www.shambhala.org/community/sns/index.php?id=558 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 . . . Read More. An enlightening short video of Goenka’s speach to the UN Peace Summit in 2009. 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 . . . 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 . . . Read More. Wild Geese: Buddhism in Canada Edited by John S. Harding, Victor Sogen Hori, and Alexander Soucy The most comprehensive study of Buddhism in Canada to date McGill-Queen’s University Press Paper (0773536671) 9780773536678 / CA $29.95, US $29.95 . . . Read More.  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 . . . 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… http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/ 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 the link… http://www.vaughantoday.ca/story.php?id=2106 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 . . . 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 . . . 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 and photos. . . . Read More. Canadian temples are having trouble bringing in qualified monks because of immigration rules… http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Poverty+keeps+monks+country/2113481/story.html Here are some links to information about His Holiness’ recent visit to Montréal. Sorry I wasn’t able to post them before the event. http://www.dalailamamontreal2009.org/index.html http://www.learnquebec.ca/en/content/curriculum/personal_dev/erc/dalailama/ |
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