Thich Nhat Hanh to Visit Vancouver in August 2011
The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh and monastics of Plum Village, Deer Park Monastery, Blue Cliff Monastery, and Magnolia Village will hold a residential meditation retreat and a public lecture in Vancouver, August of 2011: ***official website: http://www.tnhvancouver2011.org/*** Retreat: “Awakening the Heart” Dates: August 8-13, 2011 Location: UBC Point Gray Campus (more details available here) Lecture: […]
Ian Harries on Khmer Buddhist Monks, Denied Religious Freedom in Vietnam
By Ian Harris, Tung Lin Kok Yuen Canada Foundation Visiting Professor in Buddhism and Contemporary Society, reposted from Asia Pacific Report 32.2 (2008): 1, 7. The Mekong delta area, known in Cambodia as Kampuchea Krom, has been populated by Khmer speakers for around one and a half millennia. Not surprisingly, the Vietnamese annexation of the […]