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Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies latest issue out
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Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies has just published its latest issue at http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cjbs. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. Canadian Journal of Buddhist Studies No 9 (2014) Table of Contents Editorial: Suwanda H J Sugunasiri Memorial: Words – Anthony K. Warder Pariyatti: Devolution... Read more »
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More Alive Than All the Living: Sovereign Bodies and Cultural Politics in Buddhist Siberia
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THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO / McMASTER UNIVERSITY YEHAN NUMATA BUDDHIST STUDIES PROGRAM presents ANYA BERNSTEIN (Harvard University) LECTURE More Alive Than All the Living: Sovereign Bodies and Cultural Politics in Buddhist Siberia THURSDAY, February 27, 2014, 3-5 pm, UTSG, JHB 317 This talk explores religious practice among Buryats, a Siberian people, through scholarship on sovereignty... Read more »
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National Post catches wind of Ontario Buddhist retreat controversy
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Cham Shan Temple is planning a quartet of Buddhist retreat centres in the Kawartha Lakes area, modelled after the four sacred Buddhist mountains of China. They have purchased huge tracts of land for the purpose, and plan to spend tens of millions of dollars on development and construction. Here’s a link to an earlier article... Read more »
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Barre Center for Buddhist Studies interviews Monteiro & Musten on Mindfulness
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This article is called “Roots and Ethics” and recently it appeared in the BCBS Insight Journal… Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) have become a wide-spread treatment because of their secular nature. MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction) has been extremely successful in introducing large numbers of people to the value of mindfulness practice in coping with common sources of... Read more »
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Robert Thurman on Mindfulness in TO Star
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Robert Thurman is speaking tonight in Toronto. In advance of his event, he gave an interview to the Toronto Star… Here’s the link: http://www.thestar.com/life/health_wellness/2014/02/14/mindfulness_scholar_robert_thurman_speaks_in_toronto.html#
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