Euthanasia? Just Say No! (a Canadian Buddhist perspective)

Suwanda Sugunasiri, well-known Canadian Buddhist community organizer, ethicist and author, recently published an article about end-of-life ethics in the Sunday Island, Sri Lanka.

Here’s the link: http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=32888

Buddhist Prayer Service for Japan: Toronto 5.11.11

Natural Appearances, Natural Liberation published

Sumeru is pleased to announce publication of:

NATURAL APPEARANCES, NATURAL LIBERATION A Nyingma Meditative Guide on the Six Bardos of Living and Dying By Master Tam Shek-wing Translated by Samten Migdron Foreword by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche

ISBN 978-1-896559-10-0  $24.95 US/CAN   €17.50 EUR Perfect bound . . . Read More.

Obon Ceremonies, July 30 & 31

From The Comox Valley Echo:

This year, on July 30 and 31, Reverend Grant Ikuta, the resident minister for the Steveston Buddhist Temple and recently-elected Bishop of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Temples of Canada, will be visiting five Japanese-Canadian cemetery sites on Vancouver Island . . . Read More.

Danh Danh Phung, a founder of Victoria’s Chùa Vạn Hạnh Temple

From the Victoria Times Colonist: http://www.timescolonist.com/Deaths+Funerals/4881306/story.html

Edmonton Buddhists remember slain community member

From the Edmonton Sun: http://www.edmontonsun.com/2011/06/05/anniversary-of-temporary-foreign-worker-stabbed-to-death-in-2010

Natural Appearances, Natural Liberation

Coming soon from The Sumeru Press Inc.

NATURAL APPEARANCES, NATURAL LIBERATION: A Nyingma Meditative Guide on the Six Bardos of Living and Dying by Master Tam Shek-wing

Translated by Samten Migdron and with a Foreword by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche

ISBN: 978-1-896559-10-0

180 pages, 6″x9″ . . . Read More.

Self-Immolation in Buddhist Tradition

CNN recently ran a story on their website entitled… An Act of faith, desperation or protest: Self-Immolations through time, featuring the famous picture of Thich Quang Duc burning himself to death while meditating in Vietnam in 1963. Here is the link to that story: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/19/self.immolation.history/

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Glenn Mullin @ U of T

Living in the Face of Death: The Tibetan Tradition with Glenn Mullin

Glenn H. Mullin is a Tibetologist, translator of classical Tibetan literature, and Buddhist writer and teacher. He is the author of over 20 acclaimed books on various aspects . . . Read More.

Life with death

Stephen Jenkinson is a Canadian counsellor who specializes in death. The NFB recently made a movie, called Griefwalker, about his work…

http://www.nfb.ca/film/griefwalker-trailer/

His website is www.orphanwisdom.com