Sumeru News — Buddhism in Canada

The website for the visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Toronto in the autumn of 2010 is now live (although not fully functional). Here is the link: http://www.dalailamatoronto2010.org/web/

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Website still under construction, but has added a live link to sign up for their e-mail update list. http://www.dalailamatoronto2010.org/

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All is not well in Bhutan, if you go by the refugee numbers. This article from the McGill Tribune in Montréal presents a different side to their story – and their difficulties in finding new homes. Of the more than 100,000 refugees who left, about 25,000 have found homes elsewhere. Canada has offered to accept... Read more »

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Between Ignorance & Enlightenment is an audio CD of eight dharma sermons in English, produced in 2003 by Fo Guong Shan Temple of Mississauga, book-ended by an Ode to the Triple Gem and Songs of Fo Guang Shan. Between Ignorance & Enlightenment II is a similar audio CD of 10 sermons, produced a year later.... Read more »

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It’s always delightful when a new Chinese Buddhist vegetarian restaurant opens. The lastest in my neighbourhood is Joe Yee Vegetarian Cuisine at 9688 Leslie Street, Units 17-18, in Richmond Hill. It’s between 16th Avenue and Major Mackenzie, in the small mall on the corner of Greenhill Avenue. The food is refined, the menu offers lots... Read more »

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