Understanding the Chinese Buddhist Temple

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.

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.

Buddhism in Canada re-launches

We are pleased to announce the launch of the re-designed Buddhism in Canada directory. The new website features enhanced navigation features such as search by full text, map, alpha, location and/or tradition. It also incorporates photographs from the Buddhist community, a community event calendar . . . Read More.

Moncton Buddhist Centre

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.

Montreal Religious Sites Project

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.

Shrine project update

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.

Buddhism in Canada website update

This summer, Sumeru has had the unique opportunity to work with George Klima and Chris Ng to revamp the extremely popular Buddhism in Canada website – a directory of all the Buddhist temples, centres, organizations, etc.

The website was created in 1995 and was in need of . . . Read More.

Toronto temple project

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.

Panoramio photos

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.

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.

Toronto Maha Vihara burns

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.

The Consecration of Dzambhala

Karma Tekchen Zabsal Ling in Aurora has been hard at work completing their main shrine room. The right side shrine alcoves are now home to a set of exquisite rupas of the 21 Taras. The left side shrine alcoves are now home to Mahakala, . . . Read More.

Equinox e-Launch

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.

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.

Dr. Ambedkar

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.

Vancouver Temples, 1973

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.