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Canadian Buddhism and banned cult
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama banned the practice of the Shugden deity more than ten years ago. Here is a link to a story explaining the reasons, from Time Magazine, reproduced from the Canada Tibet Committee website, where it was posted in 2008: http://tibet.ca/en/newsroom/wtn/3218 This practice is associated with the New Kadampa Tradition and their Canadian... Read more »
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Lethbridge Bhutanese refugee issues
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Lethbridge is home to a large and growing population of Bhutanese refugees. A recent police shooting in the community has raised awareness of issues they face. From the Calgary Herald: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/alberta/Police+shooting+thrusts+Lethbridge+Bhutanese+community+under+spotlight/6970967/story.html Some background from the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/2012/04/18/calgary-lethbridge-bhutan-immigrants.html For the history of the Bhutanese refugee problem, The Canadian Bhutanese Society (based in Lethbridge): http://cbsalberta.org/index.php/about-us/11-bhutanese-refugees-history
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Same-sex marriage, from a Buddhist perspective
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In case you missed this article, “All Beings Are Equally Embraced By Amida Buddha”: Jodo Shinshu Buddhism and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States, by Jeff Wilson, in the Journal of Global Buddhism: http://www.globalbuddhism.org/13/wilson12.pdf
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Tibet Resettlement Project concert, Toronto 7.21.12
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The Government of Canada is facilitating the immigration of up to 1,000 Tibetans living in the state of Arunachal Pradesh in India, at the request of the Canada Tibet Committee and Canada’s Tibetan community. Up to 1,000 displaced Tibetans, including principal applicants and their eligible family members, will be accepted over a five-year period. As... Read more »
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Jeff Wilson’s “Dixie Dharma” published
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Jeff Wilson, associate professor of religious studies and East Asian studies at Renison University College, University of Waterloo, has just published “Dixie Dharma: Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South” with the University of North Carolina Press. You can read a short description of the book and hear a podcast interview with Jeff at... Read more »
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