Mindful Magazine launched in Halifax by Shambhala

Mindful magazine is a new periodical about all things related to mindfulness, with topic areas including:

In Body & Mind In Love & Relationships At Home At Work In Your Life Mindfulness Practice The Mindful Society The Science Partners News Resources Mindful Voices

The second issue . . . Read More.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction vs Buddhism in Macleans magazine

Canada’s weekly news magazine, Macleans, has just published an article exploring the tension between mindfulness based stress reduction vs Buddhism, under the title “Mindfulness goes corporate – and purists aren’t pleased.”

In the article, author Anne Kingston discusses the secular Buddhism notion from the perspective of . . . Read More.

Shambhala Sun seeks Associate Art Director

JOB POSTING 

Shambhala Sun Foundation 

Associate Art Director

We are seeking a colleague to join our editorial team to design elegant and effective layouts for the Shambhala Sun magazine, perform production- management duties, and undertake other design tasks to support the work of the Shambhala . . . Read More.

Buddhadharma Quarterly seeks new editor

The Shambhala Sun Foundation seeks a trained editor to fill the role of managing/assistant editor of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly.

Right livelihood: Buddhadharma is hiring

We are looking for an editorial professional who is highly organized and detail oriented, energetic, and willing to take on a wide variety . . . Read More.

“An Uncommon King” screens @ Atlantic Film Festival 9.16.12

An Uncommon King is a new documentary about Sakyong Mipham, son of Chogyam Trungpa and current leader of the Shambhala organization.

Here’s a description from the AFF website: Shot over 17 years in 12 countries and more than 15 different formats, An Uncommon King is Johanna Lunn’s epic . . . Read More.

Milk Lake Shambhala Retreat Centre – a video tour

Found this on Vimeo… Little tour of Milk Lake Retreat Center in Nova Scotia narrated by Waylon Lewis of elephantjournal.com! For more information on Milk Lake or to schedule a retreat for yourself please visit milklake.com.

http://vimeo.com/41035988

By the way, Milk Lake also produces and sells . . . Read More.

Canadian Buddhist Meetups

Vancouver & Victoria

Calgary

Edmonton

Toronto

Ottawa

Montréal

Halifax

Excluding groups that are tangentially tagged as “Buddhist” the breakdown is as follows: 4 Theravada 7 Mahayana (including three that focus on martial arts) 10 Vajrayana (mostly Shambhala) 13 New Kadampa (which many people do NOT . . . Read More.

Shambhala News site launched

Shambhala has launched a new news site, Shambhala News, specifically oriented to the non-Shambhala community, as opposed to the Shambhala Times Community News site which is focused more on practitioners within the organization’s 170 centres around the world. The new site will be run out . . . Read More.

Raymond Taavel, in memoriam

We were deeply saddened to hear of the senseless murder of Raymond Taavel, long-time circulation manager at the Shambhala Sun, in Halifax recently. Most of the news articles we’ve seen focus on the murderer and larger issues such as  being LGBT in Canada, treatment of . . . Read More.

Shambhala Sun Foundation seeks Associate Publisher

Here’s the job posting: http://careers.poynter.org/jobs/4673304/associate-publisher-shambhala-sun

The organization hopes to have the position filled by April of this year.

Great Eastern Sun: The Shambhala Community in Nova Scotia

The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, will be hosting an exhibit on the Shambhala community there. The exhibit will run until April 21st.

Here is the blurb from the museum’s website: Discover how the international headquarters of the Shambhala . . . Read More.

Jerry Granelli bangs Buddhist drum in Ottawa

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

“Crazy Wisdom” Trungpa movie @ Atlantic Film Festival

Review from the Halifax Chronicle Herald: http://thechronicleherald.ca/ArtsLife/1263838.html

Shambhala Lineage Festival, Halifax: 9.24/25.11

From the Shambhala Times: http://shambhalatimes.org/2011/09/06/shambhala-lineage-festival/

Rebel Buddha Tour – Halifax/Toronto

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, of the Nalandabodhi group of centres, has a new book out, entitled “Rebel Buddha” with a complementary website: http://www.rebelbuddha.com/

To promote the book, he is embarking on a series of speaking engagements with a panel of speakers and two of the events . . . Read More.

TULKU: Divine birth, ordinary life (NFB movie)

The National Film Board of Canada recently released an autobiographical movie by Gesar Mukpo. In this documentary, young Canadian Gesar Mukpo struggles with life as a tulku — the reincarnation of a great Buddhist master.

Details at… http://films.nfb.ca/tulku/

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