Sumeru News — Ontario

Tendai Canada opens new location in Pembroke, ON: Red Maple Centre

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Tendai Canada and Red Maple Sangha have relocated from Renfrew to Pembroke, in Ontario. New contact details can be found at: www.canadianbuddhism.info Resident teacher Innen Ray Parchelo tells us what’s planned for the new location… THE NEW RED MAPLE CENTRE It will be nearly 100 days since we last sat and walked together, and much has... Read more »

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Wind farm controversy reveals split in Buddhist communities

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If you followed my coverage of the dispute between Cham Shan Temple, residents of the Kawartha Lakes region, the Government of Ontario and wind farm developers, over proposed wind farms in the vicinity of Cham Shan’s Peterborough retreat centre (a recreation of Putoshan), now under construction, you would have some sense of the difficulty of... Read more »

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NZ Dharma teacher Tarchin Hearn leading Canadian retreats this summer

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Tarchin Hearn, a great Buddhist writer and teacher from New Zealand will be teaching across Canada this summer, and he is kicking off his tour with a one-week retreat in Morin Heights.  Tarchin’s approach to dharma is non-sectarian and universal in nature, linking personal healing with a deep ecological perspective in ways that have inspired a... Read more »

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Yeshe Lama Retreat @ The Dharma Centre of Canada, August

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Yeshe Lama Retreat: Rushen and Trekcho with Lama Lena Aug 22- Sept 1, 2014 at the Dharma Centre of Canada The yogis and yoginis in the Nyingma tradition of Vajrayana are amongst the wildest and wooliest of all Buddhist practitioners. Yeshe Lama (Wisdom Teacher) and the practice of “Rushen” which it introduces is one of the most... Read more »

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Breaking news: Wind farm near Cham Shan temple in Peterborough cancelled

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The proposed Stoneboat Wind Farm in Bethany, near the Cham Shan temple in Peterborough under development, has been cancelled. Here is the press release from Stoneboat: Stoneboat Project Cancellation Notice And here is an article about it, posted today in the Peterborough Examiner: http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2014/03/07/stoneboat-wind-farm-project-cancelled

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