Sumeru News — Zen

Ruth Ozeki is a well known Japanese-Canadian author and filmmaker who was ordained as a Zen priest in June 2010. She is affiliated with the Mountain Rain Zendo on Fraser Island, BC. She recently contributed a short reflection to end a broadcast of CBC’s “The Current” which focused on the recent tragedies in Japan. You... Read more »

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The website for Thich Nhat Hanh’s August 2011 retreat and public talk in Vancouver is now up and running, although registration has not started yet. For more information about the events (and to register when that portion of the website goes live), please visit: http://www.tnhvancouver2011.org/

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Registration for volunteers at the retreat led by Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh and associated lecture in August, 2011, in Vancouver, will be managed by two of his Vancouver sangha members, Justin Loveless and Jeanie Seward Magee. To register as a volunteer, please contact: Jessica Main Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation Chair, Buddhism and Contemporary... Read more »

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A thought-provoking piece on how women’s lineage documents came to be used in American Soto Zen initiation ceremonies, with some help from Roshi Peter Leavitt on Salt Spring Island. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/norman-fischer/for-full-inclusion-for-wo_b_772357.html

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Thich Nhat Hanh, world-honoured Vietnamese Zen Master, peace activist, and inspirational teacher, will be in Vancouver in August 2011. Here is the information about his visit, from his hosts – the University of British Columbia… NOTE: This information is updated in other posts on Sumeru. Use the search button in the upper right corner of... Read more »

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