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Macleans disses Dalai in detail

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Controversial new article from Canada’s leading news magazine, that’s for sure… http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/25/stop-the-lama-love-in/

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Khmer monk lauded in Vaughan, ON

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Ven. Nil Choen, resident monk at the Khmer Buddhist Temple in Maple, Ontario, was recently profiled in the Vaughan News. Here’s the link… http://www.vaughantoday.ca/story.php?id=2106

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Fierce Light

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Velcrow Ripper’s Toronto-based film production company specializes in documentaries about the integration of spirituality and activism. Fierce Light – the movie trailer Also from Velcrow Ripper: Prayers for Bat Nha, a short documentary (Fierce Light Flash!) about Thich Nhat Hanh’s return to Viet Nam in 2005 and 2007, the temple’s inspiring rebirth, the tragic consequences... Read more »

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Ephemera update

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Here are the records of many significant Vajrayana events in Toronto between 1998 and 2002. As you can see, it is a great start, but very incomplete. We owe it to future practitioners and historians to complete this record for all Buddhist faith communities across Canada in years gone by. Your contribution of information is... Read more »

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Maitreya Project Heart Relic Tour

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The Tibetan Cultural Centre in Etobicoke hosted this event on September 23, 24 and 25, 2009. www.maitreyaproject.org Cristian Cowan, who is travelling with the exhibition, is keeping an excellent blog full of interesting facts and photos. http://cristiancowan.wordpress.com/

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