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Tibetan Book of the Dead, narr. Leonard Cohen, full movie
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Leonard Cohen’s narration of the film Tibetan Book of the Dead, produced by the National Film Board in 1994, is available on YouTube in five parts. Here is part one, which will lead you to the others as well.
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Ingress and Buddhist Temple geo-tagging
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I recently joined a global community of videogamers playing Ingress, a massively multi-player online Android game made for Google+ by Niantic Labs. The game involves discovering, visiting and claiming portals in the public sphere all over the world. One of the two teams is known as “The Enlightened” (which is part of what drew my... Read more »
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Canadian media response to Bodhgaya bombings
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No stories on the Bodhgaya bombings in the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Winnipeg Free Press, Calgary Herald, Montreal Gazette. Only wire feeds on the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, CBC and CTV sites, and those are one or two stories at most. At first I was shocked. So I checked and found no articles at... Read more »
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High Plains Doctor: Healing on the Tibetan Plateau
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HIGH PLAINS DOCTOR follows Isaac Sobol, Chief Medical Officer of Nunavut, on his tenth medical mission in a remote Tibetan village. The film shows the natural and cultural beauty of Northern Canada and Eastern Tibet and reveals disquieting parallels facing these traditional peoples. HIGH PLAINS DOCTOR contains footage that will never be seen again. In... Read more »
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Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu in Manitoba, on the web and on YouTube
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I recently discovered Venerable Yuttadhammo (formerly Noah Greenspoon), a Canadian-born Theravada Buddhist monk, ordained in 2001 under the guidance of Venerable Ajaan Tong Sirimangalo of Chiang Mai, Thailand. His blog is: Truth Is Within / Just another Buddhist monk’s weblog I’ll be adding him to the Sumeru directory of Canadian Buddhist organizations shortly, but here’s his... Read more »
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