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Integrating Asian Healing Traditions into Mental Health Care

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The Centre for Diversity in Counselling & Psychotherapy, in Toronto, will be presenting The 7th Critical Multicultural Counselling & Psychotherapy Conference: INTEGRATING ASIAN HEALING TRADITIONS INTO MENTAL HEALTH CARE June 1st & 2nd, 2012 OISE (250 Bloor Street West) A PDF of the conference poster is available here: CDCP_2012_Conference_Integrating_Asian_Healing_Traditions Complete details about the event are... Read more »

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Griefwalker on Tricycle Film Club

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Stephen Jenkinson is one of Canada’s leading palliative care educators, and the subject of a full-length documentary by Tim Wilson, titled “Griefwalker.” The movie is Tricycle Magazine’s March selection for their Buddhist film club, and featured on their website: http://www.tricycle.com/filmclub A 20-minute Tricycle audio interview with Jenkinson is available here: http://www.tricycle.com/blog/tricycle-talks-stephen-jenkinson-aka-griefwalker Information about the film, a short... Read more »

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Interview with Nick Pederson

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Zen artist Nick Pederson is the New York-based illustrator of the book “Sumeru” – an allegory of the Zen journey. He is currently artist in residence at the Banff Centre in Alberta. In this podcast interview with Adam Tebbe, of the Sweeping Zen blog, he discusses his work: http://sweepingzen.com/2012/03/23/episode-10-sumeru-an-interview-with-artist-nick-pederson/ Here’s Nick’s own website: http://www.nick-pedersen.com/

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2012 Buddhist Education Foundation for Canada Essay Prize

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The Buddhist Education Foundation for Canada (BEFC) announces a student essay competition demonstrating the association between Buddhism/Buddhist psychology and western psychology, science or society. Submissions should focus on the specific and creative ways that the western academic and clinical disciplines, (e.g. psychology, sociology, religious studies, philosophy, medicine, psychotherapy, cognitive sciences) have encountered Buddhism and Buddhist... Read more »

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Collett Cox Numata Lectures, McMaster 3.22.12 + U of T 3.23.12

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READING GROUP: “Yogācāra Prehistory: The Interpretation of Bhāva, Svabhāva, Abhiniṣpanna, and Pariniṣpanna in a Gāndhārī Scholastic Text”
 – Thursday, March 22, 4-6, McMaster, University Hall 122 LECTURE: “Brittle Birch Bark Speaks: the Earliest Buddhist Manuscripts of Ancient Gandhāra” 
 –  Friday, March 23, 3-5, U of T, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 318 Collett Cox is... Read more »

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