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“Moving Body, Knowing Mind” review
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Moving Body, Knowing Mind: Ritualizing and learning at two Buddhist centres in Toronto Patricia Q. Campbell Oxford University Press, 2011 ISBN 9780199793815 $39.95 paperback Hardcover also available From the publisher: Knowing Body, Moving Mind investigates ritualizing and learning in introductory meditation classes at two Buddhist centers in Toronto, Canada. The centers, Friends of the Heart... Read more »
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Focus on Buddhism @ Vancouver Int’l Film Fest
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This year’s Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) will feature four films on Buddhism, October 6-18, 2011. Here’s a link to the Buddhist Feature on the site: http://www.viff.org/e-blasts/viff-2011/outreach/Buddhism.htm
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Ajahn Kusalo in Nova Scotia
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From the Nova News: http://www.novanewsnow.com/section/2011-09-28/article-2762691/Monk-visits-meditation-group/1
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Charles Prebish podcast on “New Books in Buddhist Studies”
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Charles Prebish is among the most prominent scholars of American Buddhism. He has been a pioneer in studying the forms that Buddhist tradition has taken in the United States. Now retired, he has written this unusual new book, An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma Pioneer (Sumeru Press, 2011). The book tells the story of Prebish’s... Read more »
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Sister Elaine MacInnes: Catholic nun, Zen master, prison activist, in TV documentary
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Victoria’s CHEK TV will air the award-winning 2005 documentary, The Fires That Burn, as part of their Docs from the Edge series. The film documents the life of Sister Elaine MacInnes, age 87, her journey, and her current activities with her Freeing The Human Spirit Foundation, that aims to promote spiritual understanding and bring meditation and... Read more »
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