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HH Dalai Lama Ottawa 2012 website / tickets

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His Holiness the Dalai Lama will give a public talk in Ottawa on April 28, 2012. The topic is “Ethics for a Whole World.” The website, where one can buy tickets online and view related material, is now up on the Canada Tibet Committee’s site: http://www.tibet.ca/2012/

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Contemplative Care Training Intensive

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Contemplative Care Training Intensive with Koshin Paley Ellison & Robert Chodo Campbell 180 Sudbury St, Toronto, ON M6J 3H2 Mon, Mar 26, 2012 – 9:00am – Sat, Mar 31, 2012 – 4:30pm Presented by: Toronto Centre of Gravity Buddhist Association Cost: $695 + HST Email: learning@centreofgravity.org Website: http://centreofgravity.squarespace.com/course_care_training/ This six-day professional training retreat is a... Read more »

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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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Buddhism + Psychology Student Union, U of T – 1st undergrad academic journal

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Upaya is the journal of the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health undergraduate program student union (BPSU) at New College, University of Toronto. Their first issue was released in May 2011. Here is a link to it: UPAYA 1 For further information about the program, click here: http://www.newcollege.utoronto.ca/academics/new-college-academic-programs/buddhism-psychology-and-mental-health/

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