By Yönten, on June 15th, 2010%
Just published!
UNDERSTANDING THE CHINESE BUDDHIST TEMPLE
by Karma Yönten Gyatso
ISBN 978-1-896559-03-2
PDF e-book, 58 pages, 11” x 8½″, 23 MB
© John H. Negru, 2010
This book is available as a free download from our “Latest Releases” page.
♦ To download the book, you can . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on August 18th, 2009%
Buddhist Centres aren’t springing up like mushrooms these days, so it was inspiring to see that Montreal’s Tibetan Buddhist Temple has opened a sister centre in Moncton, New Brunswick. http://zawatulku.org/index.htm
Here’s a news story too, about this week-end’s inauguration . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on July 29th, 2009%
This summer, Yönten has taken extensive archival photographs of the shrine rooms at Ching Kwok Temple, Fu Sien Tong Temple, Karma Sonam Dargye Ling, Zen Buddhist Temple, Pyung Hwa Sa, Khmer Buddhist Temple of Ontario, and Yanviriya II Thai Buddhist Temple, as well as the grotto . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on July 11th, 2009%
On July 7, I photographed at Zen Buddhist Temple, Ching Kwok Temple, Fu Sien Tong Temple and Karma Sonam Dargye Ling. About 250 photos in all. Currently processed in Photoshop.
On July 15, I photographed at Pyung Hwa Sa, a Chontae Order Korean . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on July 11th, 2009%
I have begun to post my photographs of Buddhist pilgrimage sites on Panoramio, viewable through Google maps and Google Earth. Bodhgaya, Ajanta, Shwedagon (in Rangoon), and Koh Samui (in Thailand) are up. Many more to come. You can browse the locations or search “Karma . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on June 22nd, 2009%
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.
By Yönten, on May 18th, 2009%
Arsonists broke into the Toronto Maha Vihara Sri Lankan Buddhist Temple early in the morning of May 16 and set fire to the wooden structure, which was recently constructed with donations from the community. This follows similar attacks in recent weeks on Sri Lankan . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on March 20th, 2009%
In the spirit of the Dharma, Sumeru joyously announces the publication of our first title:
A Rosary of Precious Offerings to Enrich the Mind
This collection of annotated photographs of Vajrayana Buddhist shrine offerings at Karma Tekchen Zabsal Ling is presented as . . . Read More.
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.
By Yönten, on March 1st, 2009%
The Ambedkar Mission in Toronto was founded by Darshan Chaudhary in 1979 to celebrate the life and continue the work of a great modern Indian Buddhist bodhisattva, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. The mission is still going strong.
In 1991, the Mission published . . . Read More.
By Yönten, on February 28th, 2009%
In 1972, Kalu Rinpoche came to Canada and stayed with us at the Montreal Zen Centre for a few months. In the winter of 1973, he went on to Vancouver to inaugurate a centre to be run by Lama Tsewang Gyurme on . . . Read More.
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