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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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New free course in Buddhism in Toronto – updated

Buddhism Buddhism in Canada Education Toronto

New free course in Buddhism at Pho-Hien Temple Learning Modern Buddhism in Western culture context When: February 22 to November 2014, Saturdays at 2:00 – 4:00 pm Where: Pho-Hien Temple (普賢寺), 297 Garyray Dr., Toronto, ON M9L 1P2 New Students: Free Repeat Students: Enquire at The Academy of Wisdom & Enlightenment (智覺學苑) www.AWE-edu.com World Wide Students: Can attend our classes via internet. All... Read more »

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Canada’s Crispin Lipscomb takes Buddhism on board at Sochi

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Here’s an article from Reuters about how Canadian snowboarder, Crispin Lipscomb, sees great parallels between the Dharma and his chosen sport… http://ca.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idCABREA160TX20140207

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