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Choosing Buddhism book review
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Choosing Buddhism: The Life Stories of Eight Canadians By Mauro Peressini March 2016, ISBN 978-0-7766-2331-3 Mercury Series, Cultural Studies Paper 86 472 pages, 125 images, 17 x 24 cm $54.95 pbk https://press.uottawa.ca/choosing-buddhism-2946.html From the publisher: Choosing Buddhism explores the experience of Canadians who chose to convert to Buddhism and to embrace its teachings and practices in... Read more »
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A Thousand Hands: A Guide to Caring for Your Buddhist Community
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We are pleased to announce the upcoming autumn publication of A Thousand Hands: A Guide to Caring for Your Buddhist Community, edited by Nathan Jishin Michon and Daniel Clarkson Fisher. Nathan Jishin Michon is a PhD student at Graduate Theological Union, studying Buddhist caregiving. He is ordained as both an interfaith minister and a Buddhist... Read more »
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BC Vesak
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Here’s the poster for the BC Vesak celebration happening in Vancouver next May 29th. Visit www.BCbuddhistfestival.com or their Facebook page (BC Buddhist Festival) for more information.
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Toronto Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery Workshops
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Two mindfulness-based addiction recovery workshops upcoming in Toronto… MBAR Certificate Training Program Apr 29 – May 1, Institute for Traditional Medicine. Details here. MBAR is a mindfulness-based approach to preventing relapse and promoting recovery from addiction. The course was developed by co-authors of Eight Step Recovery – Dr Paramabandhu Groves and Valerie Mason-John. The course... Read more »
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Albert Low memorial
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In Memory of Albert Low Richard Bryan McDaniel Albert Low, the Director of the Montreal Zen Center, died on the morning of January 27. He was 87 years old. In 2013, I had arranged to interview Albert and four of his students for a book I was writing on the second generation of Zen teachers... Read more »
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