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The schedule, registration and accommodation details for the Buddhism in Canada: Global Causes, Local Conditions conference being held at UBC in Vancouver, October 15-17, is now available. Here are the links: SCHEDULE: http://ubcbuddhism.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/901/ REGISTRATION (Free!): http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CXSBTKP ACCESS & . . . Read More. The website “Buddhism in Canada” (www.buddhismcanada.com) has closed, after 16 years. The site was operated by George Klima, out of St. John, NFLD. A great debt of gratitude is owed to him for his unstinting service to the far-flung communities that the directory served. It grew to . . . Read More. Asian Religions in British Columbia (Edited by Larry DeVries, Don Baker, & Dan Overmyer; University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, 2010) provides a sociological overview of communities, places of worship, teachers and traditions in British Columbia whose background is Asian. For a detailed description . . . Read More.  Comments are closed  Buddhism in Canada, Publishing in a digital world, Temple Stories  Books, British Columbia, Buddhist community The Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia will be hosting a conference on Canadian Buddhism in October 2010: Buddhism in Canada: Global Causes, Local Conditions The University of British Columbia will be publishing a new scholarly overview of Asian religions in BC later this year. Here is the link to more details… . . . 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 Cham Shan Temple is building the Wutai Shan Buddhist Gardens in Peterborough, Ontario, as a replica of the Buddha Light main hall of the Tang Dynasty Wutai Shan temple, using lumber milled specifically for this purpose in China. Several weeks ago, the first containers . . . Read More. Montreal’s Tibetan Arts Centre hosts the Tibetan Festival, a home-grown multi-venue event running from May 1-8, 2010. Details at: . . . Read More. All is not well in Bhutan, if you go by the refugee numbers. This article from the McGill Tribune in Montréal presents a different side to their story – and their difficulties in finding new homes. Of the more than 100,000 refugees who left, . . . Read More. Between Ignorance & Enlightenment is an audio CD of eight dharma sermons in English, produced in 2003 by Fo Guong Shan Temple of Mississauga, book-ended by an Ode to the Triple Gem and Songs of Fo Guang Shan. Between Ignorance & Enlightenment II . . . Read More. Comments are closed Buddhism in Canada, Dharma poems Buddhism, Buddhist community, Education, Mahayana Prominent Edmonton Buddhist (and former Edmonton co-ordinator for the Buddhist Council of Canada in the 1980s) was recently in the news. Here’s the . . . Read More. This remarkable statue was sculpted in the image of the Shakyamuni Buddha rupa in the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya. It is carved from a single piece of Polar Pride jade, found in Canada in 2000. The statue is the largest Buddha statue in the . . . Read More. The Canada Tibet Committee announced on Saturday that they are launching a new resource centre. Here is the press release, from PR-Inside.com: Canada Tibet Committee launches resource centre for Buddhists with message from Dalai Lama You can also find out more at CTC’s own website: Canada . . . Read More. Just a quick note to say we’ve registered a sister site. Details and launch to follow. . . . Read More. I recently read an interesting article about Master Cheng Yen from Taiwan, how she founded the Tzu Chi Foundation and how it became Taiwan’s largest charity organization. The charity has been active in Canada for some time, but with a low profile. Most people . . . Read More. Comments are closed Buddhism around the World, Buddhism in Canada Buddhist community, Charity, Practice! 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 Toronto Maha Vihara, a Sri Lankan temple, was hit by arson for the second time in six months. Here are the links to stories from the . . . Read More. |
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