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An enlightening short video of Goenka’s speach to the UN Peace Summit in 2009.

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Not so easy to find Buddhist jokes, so I made one up: It’s 2020 and the Canadian government decides to host a Buddhist conference in Nunavut as part of their initiative to demonstrate national presence in the north. They send a lama, a bhikku and a roshi to attend the conference. Somewhere along the way,... Read more »

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Buddhists have been in Canada for more than 100 years, but Canadian Buddhism remains in many ways a fragmented collection of solitudes. Wild Geese is the first serious attempt to understand the multiple realities of Canadian Buddhism in an organized fashion. As such, it is a landmark book. Editors Harding, Hori and Soucy have collected... Read more »

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Wild Geese: Buddhism in Canada Edited by John S. Harding, Victor Sogen Hori, and Alexander Soucy The most comprehensive study of Buddhism in Canada to date McGill-Queen’s University Press Paper (0773536671) 9780773536678   /   CA $29.95, US $29.95 Cloth (0773536663) 9780773536661   /   CA $95.00, US $95.00 6×9, 464pp, 14 b&w photos FROM THE PUBLISHER: Buddhism has... Read more »

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Buddhism in America, a historical overview by renowned Professor Charles Prebish, is now available as a free e-book download from Scribd. At first glance it appears to be a welcome perspective, and one of the few books about this subject other than the excellent How the Swans Came to the Lake, written by Rick Fields... Read more »

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