Sumeru News — Buddhism in Canada

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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Prominent Edmonton Buddhist (and former Edmonton co-ordinator for the Buddhist Council of Canada in the 1980s) was recently in the news. Here’s the link… http://www.canmoreleader.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2462751

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