“I Won’t Fall Down” by Montreal band Sunrise and Good People

I WON’T FALL DOWN from SUNRISE and GOOD PEOPLE on Vimeo.

Here are the lyrics, courtesy of the band: Iwontfalldown

Crazy Wisdom @ VIFF

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

Focus on Buddhism @ Vancouver Int’l Film Fest

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

Charles Prebish podcast on “New Books in Buddhist Studies”

Charles Prebish is among the most prominent scholars of American Buddhism. He has been a pioneer in studying the forms that Buddhist tradition has taken in the United States. Now retired, he has written this unusual new book, An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma . . . Read More.

Sister Elaine MacInnes: Catholic nun, Zen master, prison activist, in TV documentary

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.

Three Buddhist TV shows by David Cherniack on ONE network

Can you find enlightenment in the modern Western World?

Dharma Rising airs on The Brand New ONE starting October 17

By the 1960′s Buddhism had arrived in the West to stay. Challenges of modernity were always its nemesis, but now that Buddhism is attracting unprecedented numbers, how . . . Read More.

A Song for Tibet: NFB online

Ann Henderson’s 1991 film, A Song for Tibet, is available for free online viewing through the National Film Board of Canada’s website: http://www.nfb.ca/film/a_song_for_tibet/

It lends an important contextual perspective to Québec film-maker Geneviève Brault’s new film, Tibet: Land of the Brave, premiering this month (see our . . . Read More.

“Tibet: Home of the Brave” Montréal première 9.9.11

From the film’s website, http://tibetterredesbraves.net/en/accueil/

A cinematic journey to one of the most remote places on the planet, Tibet: Land of the Brave transports the audience into the everyday lives of Tibetan herders, seen through the eyes of Gyamtso, Marijo and their daughter, Yangchen. Following this . . . Read More.

Doug Duncan, Canadian Buddhist teacher in Kyoto

From This45: http://this.org/magazine/2011/05/26/this45-gordon-laird-sensei-doug-duncan/

From Doug Sensei’s website: http://www.dharma-japan.org/

Panchen Lama Dharma-burger on VisionTV

Saw this episode of the “Just Cause” TV series on VisionTV the other night – and boy was it bad. Panchen Lama as skateboarder kid adopted by American parents. US legal eagles rescue him from the evil Chinese when they try to get him back. . . . Read More.

Buddhist Fiction Blog goes live

http://buddhistfictionblog.wordpress.com/ is a new blog recently launched by Kimberly Beek, a PhD candidate student at McMaster University in Hamilton.

Aside from providing a place for readers to discuss their favourite books online, Kimberly is also engaged in research. Here’s an excerpt from her blog about . . . Read More.

Justin Bieber Buddhist?

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.

Journey into Buddhism – Winnipeg/Vancouver

Here’s an update from Sensei Fredrich Ulrich of the Manitoba Buddhist Temple, concerning airings of the Journey into Buddhism TV series on Joy TV in Winnipeg and Vancouver…

They are a series of 18 programs about Buddhism. Presently they are shown at 5pm Saturdays on . . . Read More.

Full Contact Enlightenment blog wins Canadian web award

Full Contact Enlightenment, a Montréal-based Buddhist blog, recently received a wonderful 5th blogiversary gift: second place in the “Religion, Spirituality + Philosophy” category for the 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards. Congratulations to Tanya McGinnity!

Here’s the link to check out details on the story and explore . . . Read More.

Journey into Buddhism on JoyTV Winnipeg

Manitoba Buddhist Temple invites you to join their sensei in a series of 18 programs on Buddhism every Saturday, 7 a.m. on Joy TV. The program is called Journey into Buddhism and is part of the regular schedule published on the Joy TV website. (From the . . . Read More.

Canadian Buddhist Radio

Did you know you can listen to Buddhist radio in Canada? As it turns out, CMR (Canadian Multicultural Radio) at 101.3 FM, broadcasts a variety of shows from Buddhist communities…

Radio Sinhala (Saturday 6-7 am) Radio Tibet (Saturday 7-7:30 am) Namaste Radio – Nepali (Saturday . . . Read More.

Canadian Buddhist Blogs

Thanks to the awesome Blogisattva directory (http://www.blogisattva.org/p/blog-directory.html), here is a list of Canadian Buddhist blogs… WOW!

http://www.lashamutual.com/

http://bodhileaf.wordpress.com/

http://www.zendotstudio.blogspot.com/

http://my-buddha-nature.info/

http://fullcontactenlightenment.com/

http://panchenlama.wordpress.com/

http://www.amareway.org/

http://azenperspective.com/

http://paxicab.wordpress.com/

http://108zenbooks.com/

http://yuttadhammo.sirimangalo.org/

http://bhikkhublog.blogspot.com/

http://diydharma.org/

And of course – Sumeru (which you are now reading) and www.canadianbuddhism.info (our directory of Canadian . . . Read More.

REBIRTH now available in print

We are pleased to announce publication of the print edition of Professor Suwanda Sugunasiri’s book: Rebirth as Empirical Basis for the Buddha’s Four Noble Truths.

The book is available from Amazon for $9.99.

For further details, please visit our Press Releases page and click on . . . Read More.