Sumeru News — Buddhism in Canada

Great Eastern Sun: The Shambhala Community in Nova Scotia

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The Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, will be hosting an exhibit on the Shambhala community there. The exhibit will run until April 21st. Here is the blurb from the museum’s website: Discover how the international headquarters of the Shambhala Buddhist community came to be established in Nova Scotia and... Read more »

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Tibetan protest in Canada

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A week before PM Harper’s China visit, Tibetan Canadians urge him to support Tibet.

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Call for Papers (Conference): “Icons of Impermanence: Contemporary Buddhist Art”

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UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society Program, funded by The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation, will hold a conference on contemporary Buddhist art July 6-8, 2012 at the University of British Columbia’s Point Grey campus. Part of event series for Summer 2012 that includes the “Visions of Enlightenment” exhibition (May 10 – September 30), sponsored... Read more »

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Yamantaka//Sonic Titan

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New album now available to play or download from their website: http://yamantakasonictitan.bandcamp.com/

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Designer Babies Welcome in Buddhism

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Suwanda Sugunasiri, Canadian Buddhist scholar and community activist, weighs in on Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis, an important aspect of bioethics, with a Buddhist perspective: http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=44144

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