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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

Buddhism in Canada Meditation Practice! Retreats Saskatchewan Theravada

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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Canadian voices weigh in on Myanmar strife

Buddhism around the World Buddhism in Canada Burma Peace work Politics

From the Globe & Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/shedding-light-on-myanmars-sectarian-strife/article4548548/ Burma Buddhist Association of Ontario is associated with the Mahadhammika Vihara in Toronto. Canadian Friends of Burma is based in Ottawa: http://www.cfob.org

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