Sumeru News — Tibet

I’m not sure when this Medicine Buddha documentary originally aired, since it no longer shows up on the show’s website, but The Blue Buddha: Lost Secrets of Tibetan Medicine is an episode of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s show, “The Nature of Things” with David Suzuki. Here it is on YouTube… The show follows the practice of... Read more »

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Tibetan Bazaars have become a pan-Canadian tradition. This one, hosted by Gaden Samten Ling, will be in Edmonton.

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The journal Foreign Policy recently ran an excellent article about issues facing Tibetan children of interracial marriages. Some of the people and stories covered in the article are from Canada, where we have a sizeable Tibetan Canadian community, and a significant number of Tibetan Canadian steppe children. The pull-quote from the article reads: After more... Read more »

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Tibetan Cultural Society of Vancouver Island (TCSOVI) presents: Tibetan Festival Victoria July 6, 2014 from 10 am – 5 pm Centennial Square, downtown Victoria British Columbia More information: TCSOVI Here is the event Facebook page.

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Via Tricycle… An excellent interview with Geshe Thupten Jinpa, translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and highly accomplished scholar in his own right, dealing with the intersection of Buddhism, scientific education, and the secularization of meditation/mindfulness. Geshe Jinpa lives in Montreal. http://www.tricycle.com/feature/under-one-umbrella

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