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Dalit suicides and Dr. Ambedkar
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According to The Globe & Mail, India’s lowest classes continue to be oppressed by caste prejudice, in spite of their obvious educational accomplishments: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/breaking-caste/why-theres-an-alarming-rash-of-suicides-among-dalit-students/article4396677/ Dr. Ambedkar, one of India’s modern democratic founders and a staunch supporter of Dalit rights, was also its modern Buddhist voice. It would appear that India needs him now more than ever.... Read more »
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Theft and random acts of kindness for Daeung Sunim
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While Daeung Sunim has been in Toronto, his laptop, cellphone and GPS were stolen. Here’s the article about it from The Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1222306–korean-monk-on-continental-bicycle-odyssey-has-laptop-gps-stolen-in-toronto Fortunately, from adversity has come the opportunity for acts of kindness, in the form of offers to assist Sunim in re-provisioning him for the next leg of his journey. Here is... Read more »
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Canadian Buddhist cult, Montréal, circa 1970s
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http://coolopolis.blogspot.ca/2009/12/quiz-whos-guy-on-left.html http://coolopolis.blogspot.ca/2010/04/more-tyndale-martin-and-his-greatheart.html Even though some of the details are wrong, these articles are still cause for sadness. Buddhism in Canada has come a long way in the past 40 years. Many of the original members of the community which became Greatheart (including me) have gone on to make valuable contributions. Nothing is ever fully black... Read more »
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Cults, crowdsourcing and common sense
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I’ve been having a few online conversations recently about Buddhist cults, and whether or not I should be de-listing certain centres from the canadianbuddhism.info directory on the basis of allegations about them. My position has been to take centres at face value and list them, but to openly share negative news on the Sumeru website.... Read more »
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Most Ven. Hsin Ting, Fo Guang Shan, Toronto: June 30/July 1, 2012
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