Khenpo Sonam Rinpoche @ Blazing Wisdom

Toronto’s Khenpo Sonam Topgyal Rinpoche will be bestowing Guhyagarbha teachings at the Blazing Wisdom Institute in New York State this autumn. Here is the info from Blazing Wisdom’s site:

Teachings on The Guhyagarbha Tantra with Khenpo Sonam Topgyal Rinpoche

Khensur Rinpoche Sonam Topgyal, senior Khenpo of Riwoche Monastery, . . . Read More.

Buddhism in America

Buddhism in America, a historical overview by renowned Professor Charles Prebish, is now available as a free e-book download from Scribd. At first glance it appears to be a welcome perspective, and one of the few books about this subject other than the excellent . . . Read More.

Khmer monk lauded in Vaughan, ON

Ven. Nil Choen, resident monk at the Khmer Buddhist Temple in Maple, Ontario, was recently profiled in the Vaughan News. Here’s . . . Read More.

Maitreya Project Heart Relic Tour

The Tibetan Cultural Centre in Etobicoke hosted this event on September 23, 24 and 25, 2009.

www.maitreyaproject.org

Cristian Cowan, who is travelling with the exhibition, is keeping an excellent blog full of interesting facts . . . Read More.

Canada bars monks for poverty vow

Canadian temples are having trouble bringing in qualified monks because of immigration rules…

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Dalai Lama Montréal – Oct 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.

Dalai Lama Canada 2010

Here is a site with information about upcoming visits to Canada by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan . . . Read More.

Chogyam Trungpa

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.

Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

Here’s a great video about Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö, celebrating the 50th anniversary of his parinirvana, from a great blog called “Remembering . . . Read More.

Thrangu Rinpoche to visit Canada, August 2009

Thrangu Rinpoche, one of the great living Vajrayana masters, will visit Canada this summer:

Aug. 12 – 14
Ottawa, Canada
Teaching: Seven Points of Mind Training of Atisha
Program: August 13 – 14
(Contact details to be posted)

Aug. 15 – 25
Toronto, Canada
KTZL Toronto Thrangu Centre
Aug.18-21 – Teaching on The Hundred Verses of Advice
Aug. . . . Read More.

Calling the lama from afar

Recently began to converse on Facebook with Chagdud Tulku’s lineage in Uruguay.

Their web address is http://pt.chagdud.org/en/

Their sister site of Tibetan music may also be of . . . Read More.

HH Dalai Lama in Calgary, Sept 09

With tickets still available, Calgarians have a chance to secure a seat at “connect NOW” for the historic address from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama when he visits the city this fall for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Tickets for connect NOW, . . . Read More.

HH Dalai Lama in Vancouver, Sept 09

The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education is honoured to host His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Vancouver, September 26-29, 2009 for the Vancouver Peace Summit: Nobel Laureates in Dialogue. Joining the Dalai Lama will be Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other Nobel Laureates: . . . Read More.

One Hundred Years for Freedom

Sumeru has it here! Check out our “Ephemera” page . . . Read More.

The black crows, part 2

When Panchen Otrul Rinpoche returned to Toronto from Lindsay, he bestowed the Yamantaka initiation. Since the hall at Tengye Ling was too small for the event, a room was rented on the top floor of the Library Sciences tower in Robarts Library on the U of . . . Read More.

The black crows

In 1992, Panchen Otrul Rinpoche visited Toronto. He gave a number of teachings and initiations at Tengye Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple and was then heading off to Lindsay to visit a number of Tibetan families who lived there. I volunteered to drive him and . . . Read More.

The Black Dog

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.

Beginner’s Mind

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.