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Continuum movie
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Continuum is a movie currently fundraising on Kickstarter, focusing on a new way to view our relationship with the planet. Among the many distinguished humans featured in the movie are HH the Karmapa, Roshi Glassman, and many Buddhists in a variety of countries. Justin Whittaker over at American Buddhist Perspective featured the trailer on his... Read more »
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Lobsang Sangay, head of the Tibetan Govt in Exile, interviewed by Globe & Mail while in Ottawa
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Lobsang Sangay, head of the Central Tibetan Administration (also known as the Tibetan Government in Exile), is in Ottawa on an official visit. During his visit he has raised concerns about human rights abuses in China and Tibet, and drawn into focus the role of Canada’s new Office of Religious Freedom, which is charged with... Read more »
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Danny Fisher reviews Charles Prebish’s memoir (published by Sumeru)
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Danny Fisher has written a thoughtful review of Charles Prebish’s book – An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Buddhist Pioneer – published by Sumeru in 2011, for the Journal of Global Buddhism. “Honestly (even, at times, surprisingly so) and engagingly written, An American Buddhist Life succeeds brilliantly at pioneering memoir as an absolutely essential area... Read more »
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Canada Tibet Committee closes FB group, launches FB page
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Here’s the most recent update from the social media presence for the Canada Tibet Committee: ‘Like’ our new FB page in order to stay in touch with other Tibet supporters in Canada. Follow us on http://www.facebook.com/CanadaTibet from now on, as this group will soon be CLOSED.
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Highlights from the Survey of Canadian Buddhist Organizations
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There are currently 483 Buddhist organizations operating in Canada in 2012. In order to better understand these organizations, a survey was created by John Negru, publisher of Canada’s largest online database of Canadian Buddhist organizations, www.canadianbuddhism.info, in association with the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. The survey contained twenty-six... Read more »
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