Sumeru News — Peace work

4 Paths to Peace: Inspiration from the Dalai Lama is a documentary film that chronicles His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the Vancouver Peace Summit and the personal journeys of four summit attendees who try to learn from the Dalai Lama, Nobel Laureates and other eminent speakers to put words into action in their own... Read more »

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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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The world is grateful for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi today. Thousands of other political prisoners remain behind bars in Burma. (http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/index.php/news-and-reports/news-stories/aung-san-suu-kyi-released-1-down-2202-to-go/2)

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Why are there no affiliates of Zen Peacemakers in Canada? http://www.zenpeacemakers.org/

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RESCHEDULED Dr. Losang Rabgey will speak on Engagement in Tibet Tuesday , 9 November 2010 5:30 to 7:30pm Room 100 of the  University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Building, at 170 St George Street. A University of Virginia Senior Fellow since 2006, Dr. Losang Rabgey is a founder and executive director of Machik, a non-profit organization that... Read more »

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