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Toronto Area Buddhist Monks protest Bangladesh’s violence
Buddhism around the World Buddhism in Canada Peace work Theravada Toronto
This story was not reported in either the Globe & Mail or The Toronto Star. From Aloy Perera, Lankaweb, via The Buddhist Channel: Monks protest to cruelty of Anti-Buddhist Moslem Extremists by invoking blessings for enemies’ well being Toronto, Canada — History was created in Canada last Saturday – 12th October 2012 – as Buddhist... Read more »
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Canadian prisoner religious freedom petition
Buddhism in Canada Prison Teachers
Avaaz community petitions has posted a petition protesting the Canadian government’s cancellation of all part-time non-Christian chaplains in federal prisons. They are seeking 300 people to sign the petition before sending it to Stephen Harper. So far, they have 261 signatures. Please consider signing. Here is the reasoning, quoted from the Avaaz website: Why this... Read more »
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Zasep Rinpoche’s Vancouver events
Buddhism in Canada Events Vajrayana Vancouver Visiting Teachers
Here is information about Zasep Rinpoche’s Vancouver events at Zuru Ling, courtesy of Jessica Main at the Lower Mainland Buddhism blog: November Vancouver Visit of Lama Zasep Rinpoche Please find below the listing of events hosted by Zuru Ling Tibetan Buddhist Centre in the month of November. Rinpoche will be giving teachings, talks and an... Read more »
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One Million Grains of Light at Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver
Art Buddhism in Canada Events Vajrayana Vancouver
The Museum of Anthropology Vancouver (MOA) will host a group of Tibetan monks from the Dzongkar Choede monastery for a 4-day sand mandala creation. They will be here on October 24, 25, 27,and 28 to create and demonstrate the making of a sand mandala, and will finalize with the destruction of the piece.
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Impermanence and Canadian Buddhist organizations redux
Buddhism in Canada Buddhist community
In an earlier post in 2010, we listed Canadian Buddhist organizations that had ceased operations. Since then, we have revised the list several times to include more recent changes. Here it is again, in its most current form: In preparing the 2010 edition of the www.canadianbuddhism.info directory, we were unable to contact the following organizations... Read more »
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