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Dharma Brothers: Kodo and Tokujoo, A Historical Novel Based On The Lives Of Two Japanese Zen Masters (Volume 1) Arthur Braverman CreateSpace, December 2010 592 pages, 6 x 9 ISBN-13: 978-1453861530 (Also available in a Kindle digital edition) From the publisher… Dharma Brothers: Kodo and . . . Read More. A trivial and lame dharma-burger movie with too much violence, little sex and no zen. Don’t be fooled into parting with your cash. CRITICAL BUDDHISM Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought James Mark Shields Ashgate Press (Surrey, England, 2011) http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=10343&edition_id=13553 216 pages / ISBN 978-1-4094-1798-9 hardback / An e-book edition is also available Dr. Shields completed his undergraduate work and later received a PhD at McGill University. He is . . . Read More. Open Mind, Open Heart: Touching the Wonders of Now Sunday, August 14, 2011 Orpheum Theatre 884 Granville Street, Vancouver 1:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Doors open at 1:00 pm) Tickets are $20 CAD and are available online through Ticketmaster: http://www.ticketmaster.ca/event/1100465CC6D7D356 Tickets are still available. For . . . Read More. We recently received a copy of CRITICAL BUDDHISM Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought James Mark Shields Ashgate Press (Surrey, England, 2011) 216 pages ISBN 978-1-4094-1798-9 hardback An e-book edition is also available Dr. Shields received a PhD at McGill University and is currently . . . Read More. Ruth Ozeki is a well known Japanese-Canadian author and filmmaker who was ordained as a Zen priest in June 2010. She is affiliated with the Mountain Rain Zendo on Fraser Island, BC. She recently contributed a short reflection to end a broadcast of CBC’s . . . Read More. The website for Thich Nhat Hanh’s August 2011 retreat and public talk in Vancouver is now up and running, although registration has not started yet. For more information about the events (and to register when that portion of the website goes live), please visit: . . . Read More. Registration for volunteers at the retreat led by Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh and associated lecture in August, 2011, in Vancouver, will be managed by two of his Vancouver sangha members, Justin Loveless and Jeanie Seward Magee. To register as a volunteer, please contact: Jessica . . . Read More. A thought-provoking piece on how women’s lineage documents came to be used in American Soto Zen initiation ceremonies, with some help from Roshi Peter Leavitt on Salt Spring Island. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-fischer/for-full-inclusion-for-wo_b_772357.html 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… NOTE: This information is updated in other posts on . . . Read More. It seems Lethbridge, long home to Japanese-Canadians, is also home to a little-known gem – the Nikka Yuko Garden. The garden and its 1967 genesis are described in fond detail in an article in a recent edition of the Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/prairie-zen/article1664531/ The . . . Read More. Impatient fireflies Love and quarrel on the porch Outside the zendo Karma Yönten Gyatso, Richmond Hill 2010 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. . . . Read More. |
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