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Medicine Buddha Initiation, Toronto, 6.7.12

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Thursday, June 7th, 2012 “Medicine Buddha Initiation” with: Acharya Zasep Jamseng Rinpoche Medicine Buddha embodies the healing qualities of all the Buddhas, whose realizations overcome the ‘diseases’ of physical sickness, delusion, and other obstructions. Receiving this initiation allows individuals to engage in Medicine Buddha practice, and thus to cultivate Medicine Buddha’s special qualities in their own... Read more »

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Shambhala News site launched

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Shambhala has launched a new news site, Shambhala News, specifically oriented to the non-Shambhala community, as opposed to the Shambhala Times Community News site which is focused more on practitioners within the organization’s 170 centres around the world. The new site will be run out of California. Here is a press release about the new... Read more »

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Zen of emptiness and existence – Master Tam Shek-wing in Toronto

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In April, 2012, Master Tam Shek-wing was invited to give a lecture at the University of Toronto. This video is part one of that talk: Zen of emptiness and existence: Buddhist Thinking on Cause and Effect on the Modern Society. Mandarin Chinese, with English translation. The subsequent videos are available on YouTube.

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Natural Appearances, Natural Liberation – book launch video

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Just discovered somebody at the event last August caught it on video. Here are Master Tam’s speech and some other presentations.

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Shambhala acquisition of Snow Lion gets mixed reviews

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Last week, Shambhala and Snow Lion jointly announced that “… as of May 10, dedicated Tibetan Buddhist publisher Snow Lion Publications is ‘a part of the Shambhala Publications family.’ This will add some 300 titles, including many by the Dalai Lama, to the Shambhala catalog. The acquisition was announced via posts at the websites of... Read more »

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