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Alexandra David Neel YA bio

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Next up from Sumeru… INCOGNITO, a novel of Alexandra David Neel. Here’s a sneak peek.

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Cypress Trees in the Garden

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We are pleased to announce that Richard Bryan McDaniel’s final volume in his quartet of books on the history of Zen is now available. Richard Bryan McDaniel’s Cypress Trees in the Garden: The Second Generation of Zen Teaching in America continues the history of North American Zen which he began in The Third Step East: Zen... Read more »

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Escape from Tibet – YA nonfiction from Annick

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We had the opportunity recently to read Escape from Tibet, an award-winning true story based on the documentary film of the same name by Nick Gray, co-written by Nick Gray and seasoned Toronto writer, Laura Scandiffio, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The book was published by Annick Press in 2014 for a... Read more »

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Think online Buddhist content is important?

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If you think online Buddhist content is important—too important to allow it to slip into oblivion in future—then you need to save those pages to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, a free online resource of web pages that have in past or may in future go dark. Here is the link: https://archive.org/web/ I urge every Buddhist temple,... Read more »

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“Anthropology of Buddhism” Workshop, Toronto, May 2-3

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Anthropology of Buddhism Workshop May 2-3, 2015 University of Toronto/McMaster University Yehan Numata Program Location: Trinity College, University of Toronto Saturday, May 2nd 9am – 10:30 Session One: “Defining Buddhists” Panelists: Stephen Covell, Western Michigan University Florence Galmiche, Paris-Diderot University Horie Norichika, University of Tokyo 10:45 – 12:30 Session Two: “Field sites” Panelists: Alec Soucy,... Read more »

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