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Chogyam Trungpa

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The first time I met Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche was in the Montreal Zen Centre on Versailles Street in Pointe-St-Charles, in 1969. Trungpa had just arrived from Samye Monastery in Scotland after having given up his vows. He wore a beige suit with a vest. He had a club foot, a squeaky voice and partial paralysis... Read more »

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Moncton Buddhist Centre

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Buddhist Centres aren’t springing up like mushrooms these days, so it was inspiring to see that Montreal’s Tibetan Buddhist Temple has opened a sister centre in Moncton, New Brunswick. http://zawatulku.org/index.htm Here’s a news story too, about this week-end’s inauguration ceremony: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/08/14/buddhist-centre.html

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Canadian Buddhist News updates

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From the Peterborough Examiner, August 7, 2009: Larry Tyldsley went searching for spirituality. The 47-year-old Peterborough resident said there was something missing from his life, the spiritual element. The former director of the New Canadians Centre, Tyldsley’s now a self-described “cultural explorer,” and embarked on a journey to discover Buddhism after talking with a friend and practicing... Read more »

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Montreal Religious Sites Project

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In 2006, MgGill University launched a project to document a variety of religious institutions outside of Montreal Judeo-Christian traditions. It includes ten interesting accounts and analyses of Buddhist centres in Montreal. The reports are available for download in PDF format, or viewable online in HTML. http://mrsp.mcgill.ca/

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Shrine project update

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This summer, Yönten has taken extensive archival photographs of the shrine rooms at Ching Kwok Temple, Fu Sien Tong Temple, Karma Sonam Dargye Ling, Zen Buddhist Temple, Pyung Hwa Sa, Khmer Buddhist Temple of Ontario, and Yanviriya II Thai Buddhist Temple, as well as the grotto of Cham Shan Temple. In August, he will be... Read more »

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