Sumeru News

The Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Québec is hosting an multi-faith exhibition entitled: DIEU(x): modes d’emploi / GOD(s): a user’s manual The exhibition runs from November 10, 2010 – September 11, 2011. For details visit their excellent mini-site: http://www.mcq.org/dieux/

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Grant MacLean’s new documentary about Chogyam Trungpa’s 1959 escape from Tibet premiered recently in Halifax. You can find out more about the movie, and watch it online, on the Shambhala Sun blog site: http://www.shambhalasun.com/sunspace/?p=20332

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The website for Thich Nhat Hahn’s historic visit to Vancouver this coming summer now includes an active link to register for the six-day retreat he will be leading there between August 8-13. To register for the retreat, click on the RETREAT button in the top menu bar of the site (http://www.tnhvancouver2011.org/retreat). Alternatively, follow this direct... Read more »

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CNN recently ran a story on their website entitled… An Act of faith, desperation or protest: Self-Immolations through time, featuring the famous picture of Thich Quang Duc burning himself to death while meditating in Vietnam in 1963. Here is the link to that story: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/19/self.immolation.history/ The article makes reference to a book by James A. Benn... Read more »

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Here’s a neat story about baby naming – and the runaway popularity of Tenzin as THE name of choice in Toronto’s Parkdale district (home to the largest concentration of Tibetan Canadians)… http://toronto.openfile.ca/toronto/file/2011/01/why-tenzin-reigns-parkdale

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