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English Dharma lecture in Toronto with Ven. Master Hueiguang

• Buddhism • Buddhism in Canada • Buddhist Studies • Education • Events • Mahayana • Toronto • Visiting Teachers • Zen

You are invited to a Buddhist Dharma lecture in Toronto by Venerable Hueiguang, the Abbot of IBS http://www.ibs.tw/. Free admission. All welcome. Feel free to circulate the attached flyer to your friends. RSVP please to helenchy@gmail.com, The Truth of Life April 26, 2013 / 7:30pm-9:30pm Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2110, University of Toronto 100 St. George Street, Toronto,... Read more »

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The Earliest Recoverable Language of Buddhism, Linguistic Ambiguities, and the Process of its Transmission

• Buddhism • Buddhism around the World • Buddhist Studies • Education • Events • History • Toronto

The RELIGION GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM at the Department for the Study of Religion of the University of Toronto presents: BRYAN LEVMAN The Earliest Recoverable Language of Buddhism, Linguistic Ambiguities, and the Process of its Transmission Thursday, April 25, 2013, 2.00-3.30 pm, JHB 318 Respondent: Christoph Emmrich Abstract: We do not know the original language(s) in which... Read more »

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Meditation and the art of investment

• Buddhism • Buddhist Psychology • Business • Media • Meditation • Money

“Meditation and the art of investment” is an article in the Financial Post yesterday, picked up from the Thomson Reuters wire service, and the title is pretty self-explanatory. Several big-name American financial managers who espouse meditation and yoga as techniques are briefly profiled. There’s a nice picture of a Buddha statue and the following pithy... Read more »

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Tentative 2013 Blogisattva Award categories announced

• Blogs • Buddhism • Buddhism around the World • Buddhist community • Media • Publishing • Publishing in a digital world

The 2013 Blogisattva Award categories have been announced, based on the 2008 awards. The team is looking for keep/drop/modify suggestions before finalizing them. Have your say at: http://blogisattva.blogspot.ca/2013/04/tentative-categories-of-awards-for-2013.html

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BC novelist & zen priest Ruth Ozeki interview

• Books • British Columbia • Buddhism • Buddhism in Canada • Publishing • Publishing in a digital world • Zen

Chris Beal, at Buddhist Fiction Blog, has recently posted an interview with Ruth Ozeki about her new novel: A Tale for the Time Being. Read it AT THIS LINK.

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