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Cypress Trees in the Garden

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We are pleased to announce that Richard Bryan McDaniel’s final volume in his quartet of books on the history of Zen is now available. Richard Bryan McDaniel’s Cypress Trees in the Garden: The Second Generation of Zen Teaching in America continues the history of North American Zen which he began in The Third Step East: Zen... Read more »

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Zenji Nio boosts Pan Am athlete performance

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On July 26, the National Post ran an article, produced by students at Centennial College in Toronto, titled: Athletes thrive in Games after getting Buddhist spiritual guidance in Pan Am village. It’s an interesting article about Buddhist chaplain Zenji Nio and the Buddhist chapel he built in the Pan Am village, which, according to the article,... Read more »

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Sam Rath leaving Ottawa Cambodian Temple for Edmonton

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From the Ottawa Community News… This article about the resident monk at the Ottawa-Hull Cambodian Buddhist Association… Maha Sam Rath Viriyadhammo is leaving. A Buddhist monk, Sam Rath has been at the Cambodian Buddhist Temple on Hazeldean Road since 2009 but now he is moving on, taking up a new challenge at a temple in... Read more »

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Lama Catherine Rathbun Jetsun Yeshe passes away

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We have just learned that Lama Catherine Rathbun Jetsun Yeshe, founder and teacher at Friends of the Heart in Toronto, has passed away. Here is a notice from Toronto Mind-Body: http://www.torontomindbody.org/lama-catherine-rathbun-jestsun-yeshe-passes/ Here is a brief outline of her life, from the Friends of the Heart website: Catherine Rathbun Jetsun Yeshe A householder, a mother, a wife. a teacher,... Read more »

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Raymond Gaudry receives John Tarrant’s Dharma Transmission at London Zen Centre

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Raymond Gaudry, Roshi, received Dharma Transmission from John Tarrant, Roshi, of the Pacific Zen School, February 2nd in London, Ontario. Pacific Zen originally came out of the Sanbo Kyodan, a Japanese Zen school, but has developed since then and is probably best understood now as leaning towards the old Chinese Linji style. Raymond is the... Read more »

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