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“Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths” new survey report from the Pew Forum
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The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life has recently released their latest survey data on Asian American religious affiliation and practice, available on their website: http://www.pewforum.org/Asian-Americans-A-Mosaic-of-Faiths.aspx I don’t know how closely the data is mirrored in Canada, or how accurate the survey is (since their last one had some methodological problems that were the... Read more »
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Happy 78th Birthday, Leonard Cohen
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Posted on Parabola Magazine’s FB page, picked up by Sweeping Zen, and now reflected here. (But who of them can add the trivial fact, like I can, that I used to play in Murray Park behind Leonard’s boyhood home in Westmount, or that our mothers sometimes had tea together? Ho!) Love Itself by Leonard Cohen... Read more »
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Meditation Retreat in Moose Jaw
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A Residential Insight Meditation Retreat A HEALING TIME with Howard Cohn Wood Acres Retreat Centre, Moose Jaw November 9th to 12th, 2012 (Friday evening to Monday noon) Nurture the healing power of Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness. With the support of good company, silence and continuity of awareness, we will heal our relationship to the present... Read more »
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“Zen Masters of China, The First Step East” review
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Zen Masters Of China, The First Step East Richard Bryan McDaniel Foreword by Albert Low Tuttle Publishing 9780804842822 Publication Date: September 2012 320 pages, 5.1 x 8 in. $22.95 From the publisher: Zen Masters of China presents more than 300 traditional Zen stories and koans, far more than any other collection. Retelling them in their proper... Read more »
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Dixie Dharma’s Canadian complexion – review and response
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DIXIE DHARMA Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South by Jeff Wilson 296 pp., 18 illus., 6 tables ISBN 978-0-8078-3545-6 $36.95 cloth http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-9131.html From the publisher: Buddhism in the United States is often viewed in connection with practitioners in the Northeast and on the West Coast, but in fact, it has been spreading and... Read more »
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