Every Lost Country

Every Lost Country Stephen Heighton Knopf Canada, 2010 ISBN: 978-0307397393 (hardcover) 352 pages / Paperback and e-book available

From Quill & Quire: High-altitude adventure meets morality tale in Steven Heighton’s third novel. While mountain climbing along the Nepal–Tibet border, an altruistic doctor named Lewis Book, . . . Read More.

Tibetan protest in Canada

A week before PM Harper’s China visit, Tibetan Canadians urge him to support Tibet.

Buddhists weigh in on Canada’s new Office of Religious Freedom

It hasn’t even opened, and Canada’s Office of Religious Freedom is already stirring up controversy. This article from the Toronto Star brings up some of the problems, and if you read between the lines, you can get some idea of Canadian Buddhists’ thoughts on . . . Read More.

Corporate Craving and Buddhist Compassion

UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program presents a lecture by Jan W. Walls.

“Corporate Craving and Buddhist Compassion: Is There a Middle Ground for Buddhism in Business?”

Date: Thursday, 02 February 2012 Time: 5:00 – 7:00 PM Place: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall

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Happy New Year

With best wishes from Sumeru… Sentiments we share with the card’s creators at the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance.

http://www.religioustolerance.org/

Buddhism and Terrorism

Here’s a link to Wayne Codling’s guest blog in the Victoria Times Colonist: http://blogs.timescolonist.com/2011/09/10/buddhism-and-terrorism/

Buddhism after 9/11 survey

This is Srisuda Hongthai from The Buddha Garden and I wanted you to know that we are conducting a survey on Buddhism in North America in the ten years since the 9/11 Tragedies, since many people found solace in the teachings of Buddhism after . . . Read More.

4 Paths to Peace – Dalai Lama @ Vancouver Peace Summit

4 Paths to Peace: Inspiration from the Dalai Lama is a documentary film that chronicles His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Vancouver Peace Summit and the personal journeys of four summit attendees who try to learn from the Dalai Lama, Nobel Laureates and . . . Read More.

Ven. Sik Yin Kit on teaching the dhamma in Canadian prisons

Here’s a 50-minute video of a talk by the abbess of the Po Lam Nunnery in Chilliwack, speaking about Buddhist chaplaincy in the Canadian prison system. Her talk was given at the University of British Columbia to about 90 people last March.

http://ubcbuddhism.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/1578/

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Aung San Suu Kyi released, 2202 more prisoners to go

The world is grateful for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi today.

Thousands of other political prisoners remain behind bars in Burma. (http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php/news-and-reports/news-stories/aung-san-suu-kyi-released-1-down-2202-to-go/2)

No Zen Peacemakers in Canada

Why are there no affiliates of Zen Peacemakers in Canada?

http://www.zenpeacemakers.org/

Engagement in Tibet

RESCHEDULED

Dr. Losang Rabgey will speak on Engagement in Tibet Tuesday , 9 November 2010 5:30 to 7:30pm Room 100 of the  University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Building, at 170 St George Street.

A University of Virginia Senior Fellow since 2006, Dr. Losang Rabgey . . . Read More.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Vancouver, 2011

Thich Nhat Hanh, world-honoured Vietnamese Zen Master, peace activist, and inspirational teacher, will be in Vancouver in August 2011. Here is the information about his visit, from his hosts – the University of British Columbia…

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Uyghur web moderators jailed for life

Perhaps you take your freedom to surf for granted. Please reconsider; China recently sentenced three Uyghur webmasters to life in prison for purported crimes against the state. Here is the link from Dossier Tibet:

http://www.dossiertibet.it/node/10817

Gyantse Journal: China in Tibet

The New York Times recently published an article about how China has re-cast the 1904 British invasion of Tibet for their own propaganda purposes. In their version, the Tibetans are “stand-ins” for the Chinese who were oppressed by foreign powers during the Qing dynasty. . . . Read More.

S.N. Goenka @ UN Peace Summit

An enlightening short video of Goenka’s speach to the UN Peace Summit in 2009.

Shadows in the Cloud

The Information Warfare Monitor/ (Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto and the SecDev Group, Ottawa) and the Shadowserver Foundation announce the release of Shadows in the Cloud: An investigation into cyber espionage 2.0. The report can be downloaded from any of their . . . Read More.

Dalai Lama Toronto 2010

Here is the official website…

http://www.dalailamatoronto2010.org/