By Yönten, on August 21st, 2011%
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
By Yönten, on August 15th, 2011%
By Yönten, on July 26th, 2011%
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.
By Yönten, on July 26th, 2011%
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.
By Yönten, on June 6th, 2011%
From the Victoria Times Colonist: http://www.timescolonist.com/Deaths+Funerals/4881306/story.html
By Yönten, on June 6th, 2011%
From the Edmonton Sun: http://www.edmontonsun.com/2011/06/05/anniversary-of-temporary-foreign-worker-stabbed-to-death-in-2010
By Yönten, on June 4th, 2011%
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.
By Yönten, on January 25th, 2011%
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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By Yönten, on April 22nd, 2010%
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.
By Yönten, on December 7th, 2009%
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
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