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“Buddhism in Canada” Facebook group launched
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Buddhism in Canada: A forum and network for Canadian Buddhists and Canadian Buddhist groups interested in connecting, collaborating and sharing ideas and information with one another. https://www.facebook.com/groups/BuddhisminCanada/ Administrated by Tanya McGinnity (FullContactEnlightenment)
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SFU offers first M.Ed. in ‘Contemplative Inquiry’
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Via The Vancouver Sun… Drawn to meditation? Contemplation? The inner life? Mindfulness? Simon Fraser University has just given approval to North America’s first Master of Education Degree program in “Contemplative Inquiry.” Created in part by Education professor Heesoon Bai, it starts in the fall of 2014. Full article here.
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“Buddha’s Truthful Heirs?” TLKY Canada lecture, U of T, Thurs. Dec 12, 2013 @ 5 pm
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Dear Friend, On behalf of the University of Toronto Scarborough, I invite you to attend our upcoming event, which is part of the 2013-2014 Tung Lin Kok Yuen Perspectives on Buddhist Thought and Culture series (a TLKY Canada event). We are honoured to host Dr. Markus Viehbeck, Assistant Professor at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe... Read more »
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Tibetan refugees ready to start over in Ottawa
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Via the Ottawa Citizen… OTTAWA — When Tenzin Tsangyang stepped off the plane in Ottawa on Friday, he says the welcome was so warm he didn’t even feel the cold outside. He is one of 10 stateless Tibetan refugees who travelled here from a settlement in Arunachal Pradesh, a state at the northeast tip of... Read more »
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Meet the man who revealed Shakyamuni Buddha’s exact birth place in Lumbini
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Bob McDonald from CBC’s Quirks and Quarks science show interviews Professor Robin Coningham from the University of Durham in England , the archeologist who recently transformed our understanding of Buddha’s birthplace in Lumbini, Nepal. The segment is about 10 minutes long: http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Quirks+and+Quarks/Excerpts/ID/2421298166/
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