Tulku Sherab Dorje @ Garrison

By Yönten, on July 18th, 2010%

Tulku Sherab Dorje is a Montreal native who has been recognized as the throne-holder of a Rimey lineage monastery in Golok, eastern Tibet. He is fluent in Tibetan and well-known as a translator. His recent memoir, “A Path Strewn with Flowers and Bones” is . . . Read More.

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Montreal Tibetan Festival

By Yönten, on May 4th, 2010%

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.

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Montréal Tibetan Bazaar #20

By Yönten, on November 17th, 2009%

Amazingly – the 2oth anniversary (!) of this fabulous event coming up Nov 27-28, 2009. Details at www.tibet.ca

Here’s a story about it from the Montreal Gazette…

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Dalai Lama Montréal – Oct 2009

By Yönten, on October 11th, 2009%

Here are some links to information about His Holiness’ recent visit to Montréal. Sorry I wasn’t able to post them before . . . Read More.

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Chogyam Trungpa

By Yönten, on August 22nd, 2009%

The first time I met Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche was in the Montreal Zen Centre on Versailles Street in Pointe-St-Charles, in 1969.

Trungpa had just arrived from Samye Monastery in Scotland after having given up his vows. He wore a beige suit with a . . . Read More.

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Montreal Religious Sites Project

By Yönten, on August 6th, 2009%

In 2006, MgGill University launched a project to document a variety of religious institutions outside of Montreal Judeo-Christian traditions. It includes ten interesting accounts and analyses of Buddhist centres in Montreal. The reports are available for download in PDF format, or viewable online in . . . Read More.

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The Black Dog

By Yönten, on March 7th, 2009%

In 1972, Piyadassi Mahathera visited the Zen Meditation Centre of Montreal, to give a series of two afternoon lectures on a summer week-end.

The centre was housed in a former estate home on Mountain Street above Pine Avenue. Public lectures were . . . Read More.

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Beginner’s Mind

By Yönten, on March 4th, 2009%

The first time I met Samu Sunim, he was living in a very sparsely furnished walk-up apartment on l’Avenue du Parc near the mountain in Montréal. It was 1969 and I was 18 years old. Eastern religion was sweeping the west. I had . . . Read More.

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Tibetans in Quebec

By Yönten, on March 1st, 2009%

When a small group of Tibetans arrived in Montreal in 1971, they were the first non-European immigrants ever admitted into Canada. They established a community in Longueuil and began the long process of making a home in a new land. My friend Louis Cormier, . . . Read More.

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