Sumeru News — Temples
Universal Buddhist Temple in Vancouver has a new website
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Universal Buddhist Temple in Vancouver has a new website: http://ubt-bc.org It’s bilingual Chinese/English. The Universal Buddhist Temple is the oldest functioning non-profit Chinese Buddhist temple in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. The temple was founded by Mr. C.C. Lu (呂雒九居士) in 1968 and with Master K.S. Fung (馮公夏老師), who was revered as an important leader... Read more »
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Canada’s newest Buddhist Temple
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Canada’s newest Buddhist Temple is the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple Waterloo – Buddha’s Light Centre, which was inaugurated last week. Here’s a photo… More pictures from the opening ceremony
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Fo Guang Shan Temple Waterloo
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FGS hosted the official opening of their new temple in Waterloo, Ontario, yesterday. Their new contact information has been posted on the Canadian Buddhism website. The presiding nun was the abbess of FGS Temple, Ven. Yung Ku. FGS Toronto has operated the Lotus Tea House, a Buddhist vegetarian restaurant, in Waterloo since 2003. Photos courtesy... Read more »
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Two Buddhisms Today – Secular Buddhist Association podcast
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This is a round-table moderated by Ted Meissner, from SBA. Participants are Charles Prebish, Sarah Haynes, Justin Whitaker and Danny Fisher. http://secularbuddhism.org/2012/09/22/episode-135-charles-prebish-sarah-haynes-justin-whitaker-danny-fisher-two-buddhisms-today/
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Dixie Dharma’s Canadian complexion – review and response
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DIXIE DHARMA Inside a Buddhist Temple in the American South by Jeff Wilson 296 pp., 18 illus., 6 tables ISBN 978-0-8078-3545-6 $36.95 cloth http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-9131.html From the publisher: Buddhism in the United States is often viewed in connection with practitioners in the Northeast and on the West Coast, but in fact, it has been spreading and... Read more »
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