Buddhist Articles
Buddhists mark 100 years of faith in Canada
August 20, 2005
Celebrations marking 100 years of Buddhism in Canada will be opened today by his eminence Monshu Koshin Otani, lord abbot of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism in Japan.
His 30-year obsession with a monk
February 22, 2005
"Our task is to bring about a profound and dramatic paradigm shift, in which the imagination embraces, at last, the idea of human family," says Gary Geddes, a retired university professor and author, who has traveled to Kabul, Mexico City and Guatemala in order to follow the path of a fifth-centu...
Book review: The Wisdom of Forgiveness, by the Dalai Lama and Victor Chan
February 17, 2005
A Canadian from Bowen Island, BC, who acquainted with Dalai Lama, offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of the Tibetan Buddhist leader.
The lama behind the camera
February 11, 2005
Spiritual leader Khyentse Norbu, one of the most important incarnate lamas in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, talks to Alexandra Gill of the Globe and Mail about desire, art and Natural Born Killers.
Adversity can strengthen us
January 14, 2005
A Buddhist master in B.C. donated his life savings of $100,000 to tsunami victims. the monk Jin Puti says we are only as secure as the person beside us or on the other side of the world. In Buddhism, adversity can be transformed into a tool to strengthen people; poison can turn into medicine. It ...
Calming the storm
December 31, 2004
A Toronto Buddhist reverend, a native Sri Lankan who himself lost his friends and relatives, sat and listened for four hours to a distraught local woman who may have lost more than 200 of her relatives to the tsunami disaster in South Asia, writes Thane Burnett of the Toronto Sun. "It is to live ...
Reforming religion
December 14, 2004
How can a belief system change for the times?
Or should faith remain constant through the ages?
World Buddhist Conference ends with call for peace in Nepal
December 08, 2004
The second World Buddhist Conference, which was held at the birthplace of Buddha, ended with a call for peace. More than 10,000 people have died in Nepal since the rising of the Maoists in 1996, a group trying to topple the king. About 200 representatives from 26 countries, including Sri Lanka, B...
