Here’s a beautiful photo-essay about this Korean Buddhist temple in BC, from Nathan Bauman’s blog, Western Odysseus: http://nathanbauman.com/odysseus/?p=1862
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One of Japan’s most famous poems, translated, from the Manitoba Buddhist Church blog… Don’t forget Japan’s tsunami tragedy! http://www.manitobabuddhistchurch.org/jodoshinshu/unbeatenbyrain.html The UBC Kameyama Lecture Series, with the UBC Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, presents a lecture by Dr. Eugene Wang, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University: “What to See in a Buddhist Cave?” Date: Wednesday, 30 November 2011 Time: 4:30 – 7:00 . . . Read More. Review from The Province: http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/VIFF+Waking+love/5533449/story.html The movie “Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche” is also a potential candidate for entry in the Arclight Documentary Film Festival, if enough of the public “Like” it on the Arclight YouTube page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzZRiE7C_Ac Bop jazz drummer Jerry Granelli, a well-known fixture in the Halifax Buddhist community for many years, will be performing at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Wednesday, October 12. Here’s a feature article and details about the event from the Ottawa Citizen: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Buddhism+cutting+edge/5519227/story.html This year’s Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) will feature four films on Buddhism, October 6-18, 2011. Here’s a link to the Buddhist Feature on the site: http://www.viff.org/e-blasts/viff-2011/outreach/Buddhism.htm Victoria’s CHEK TV will air the award-winning 2005 documentary, The Fires That Burn, as part of their Docs from the Edge series. The film documents the life of Sister Elaine MacInnes, age 87, her journey, and her current activities with her Freeing The Human Spirit . . . Read More. Review from the Halifax Chronicle Herald: http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1263838.html Journey of a Dream is a heavy metal story of a Tibetan refugee, directed by Shenpenn Khyamsar (who lives in Vancouver). It is a feature length documentary that will take audiences on an epic, global journey into heavy metal music, exile, Buddhism and Tibetan roots. Here’s . . . Read More. Glenn Mullin is a Canadian Buddhist author, teacher and tour guide living in Mongolia. Here he is in a humorous but fascinating video tour of Erdeni Zuu Monastery in Mongolia: Kidding aside, however, Glenn has been involved in more than 20 Buddhist-inspired development projects . . . Read More. Ryan Gauvin is a Vancouver-based photographer with a BA in Geography from Simon Fraser University, and an MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University. His recent collection, A Hard Path – Tibetan occupation and exile, is now viewable on his website. Ryan has partnered with . . . Read More. July 22 to October 21, 2011 Wilder & Davis Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Françoise Issaly: Migrations from July 22nd to October 21st, 2011. The exhibition includes an installation of 3-D painted objects, photographs of these same installations and a video that were made . . . Read More. Stéphane Delaprée is a Canadian artist whose work has become synonymous with modern Cambodian figurative art, and a tremendous boon to Cambodia’s fragile tourist economy. Find out more about him… Here’s a link to his website: http://www.happypainting.net/ Here’s an article about him from the Vancouver Courier: http://www.vancourier.com/entertainment/Painter+wows+Cambodians/4963179/story.html . . . Read More. The Tibetan Art Fair runs in Montréal from May 13-22 this year, featuring a Photo Exhibition, Films, Art Workshops, Tibetan Classical Music, Gastronomy, Performances, and Dance. More info here: http://www.quebec-elan.org/posts/elanewsDirect/1678 Peter was international director for Shambhala Training in Halifax for a number of years. Here is a tribute to him from The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/arts/music/peter-lieberson-64-composer-inspired-by-buddhism-dies.html?_r=1 Karma Yönten Gyatso has posted 170+ of his photos of Buddhist sites on Flickr (and will continue to post more shortly). Enjoy. Here’s the link… http://www.flickr.com/photos/58903137@N05/ Here’s a sample.
I’m old enough to remember when John Lennon got into trouble for saying the Beatles were more influential that Jesus Christ. Now that we live in an age of unbridled tabloid hype, coupled with the power of instant online technology, I thought it might be . . . Read More. The third biennial Montreal Zen Poetry Festival runs March 10-13, 2011. This year’s theme: silence always speaks Twitter page: MtlZENpoetry Facebook page |
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