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Between Ignorance & Enlightenment is an audio CD of eight dharma sermons in English, produced in 2003 by Fo Guong Shan Temple of Mississauga, book-ended by an Ode to the Triple Gem and Songs of Fo Guang Shan. Between Ignorance & Enlightenment II is a similar audio CD of 10 sermons, produced a year later.... Read more »

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It’s always delightful when a new Chinese Buddhist vegetarian restaurant opens. The lastest in my neighbourhood is Joe Yee Vegetarian Cuisine at 9688 Leslie Street, Units 17-18, in Richmond Hill. It’s between 16th Avenue and Major Mackenzie, in the small mall on the corner of Greenhill Avenue. The food is refined, the menu offers lots... Read more »

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Prominent Edmonton Buddhist (and former Edmonton co-ordinator for the Buddhist Council of Canada in the 1980s) was recently in the news. Here’s the link… http://www.canmoreleader.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2462751

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The Saskatchewan Leader-Post catches up with Heather Damcho on one of her Canadian visits. http://www.leaderpost.com/life/road+Buddhism/2595281/story.html

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This remarkable statue was sculpted in the image of the Shakyamuni Buddha rupa in the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya. It is carved from a single piece of Polar Pride jade, found in Canada in 2000. The statue is the largest Buddha statue in the world that is carved from a single piece of gem-quality jade.... Read more »

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