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Buddhist Chaplains in Canada

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The Upaya Institute in Santa Fe, NM, offers a Buddhist Chaplaincy program, and several Canadians have graduated from their program. Here is information about two of them, along with their theses: Andrew Blake (2010) photo by Lynette Monteiro Andrew is cofounder and program director at Gitche M’Qua Centre for Healing, located in Toronto, Canada. In... Read more »

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Ven. Sik Yin Kit on teaching the dhamma in Canadian prisons

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Here’s a 50-minute video of a talk by the abbess of the Po Lam Nunnery in Chilliwack, speaking about Buddhist chaplaincy in the Canadian prison system. Her talk was given at the University of British Columbia to about 90 people last March. http://ubcbuddhism.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/1578/ The UBC’s Buddhism and Contemporary Society program also ran a workshop in... Read more »

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