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Help Sunim Daeung cycle across Canada

Buddhism in Canada Buddhist community Events Practice! Visiting Teachers

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/JourneyOfSpirit Follow the journey of a Korean monk’s epic adventure crossing the Americas on a bicycle. 42-year old Daeung Sunim is attempting to circumanvigate all of North America then peddle to the Southern tip of Agentina. From the Pacific to the Atlantic in Canada, down into the United States, back to the Pacific then... Read more »

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Medicine Buddha Initiation, Toronto, 6.7.12

Buddhist Psychology Death Events Health Practice! Psychology Toronto Vajrayana Visiting Teachers

Thursday, June 7th, 2012 “Medicine Buddha Initiation” with: Acharya Zasep Jamseng Rinpoche Medicine Buddha embodies the healing qualities of all the Buddhas, whose realizations overcome the ‘diseases’ of physical sickness, delusion, and other obstructions. Receiving this initiation allows individuals to engage in Medicine Buddha practice, and thus to cultivate Medicine Buddha’s special qualities in their own... Read more »

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Awake in the World

Buddhism in Canada Buddhist Psychology Film Media Practice! Toronto

Filmmaker: Andréa de Keijzer This video was created for Michael Stone’s book Awake in the World, in which he teaches the essentials of mindfulness and yoga practice, combining simplicity with the notion of interdependence of all beings. Michael is the teacher at Centre of Gravity Sangha in Toronto. This video is part of the Tricycle Buddha-Fest... Read more »

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The Buddhist Garden – coming soon from Sumeru Books

Books Buddhism in Canada Buddhist Psychology Practice! Publishing Publishing in a digital world Sumeru Books Toronto

Coming soon… The Buddhist Garden: A Journey from Kyoto to Western Tibet, by Dennis Winters. This book explores the spiritual, psychological and physical history of Buddhist geomancy in the creation of sacred meditation gardens. Dennis is a well-known Canadian landscape architect and Vajrayana practitioner.

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Dirty Laundry

Buddhism in Canada Cults Groups Practice! Teachers Temples

Unfortunately, the story of dharma in the west is not all sweetness and light. As His Holiness the Dalai Lama says: “When teachers break the precepts, behaving in ways that are clearly damaging to themselves and others, students must face the situation, even though this can be challenging, criticize openly, that’s the only way.” Here is the... Read more »

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