Sumeru News — Buddhist community

Cham Shan Temple is building the Wutai Shan Buddhist Gardens in Peterborough, Ontario, as a replica of the Buddha Light main hall of the Tang Dynasty Wutai Shan temple, using lumber milled specifically for this purpose in China. Several weeks ago, the first containers of wood arrived to begin construction. Details of this exciting project... Read more »

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Montreal’s Tibetan Arts Centre hosts the Tibetan Festival, a home-grown multi-venue event running from May 1-8, 2010. Details at: Dung Dkar

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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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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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