ALBERTA
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Calgary
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Name: Calgary Theravada Meditation Society
Address: 3212 6th Street S.W.
City: Calgary
Prov: Alberta
Zip: T2S 2M3
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Shirley June Johannesen
Telephone: (403) 243-3433
Fax: (403) 243-3433
E-mail: johannes@cadvision.com
WWW: www.cadvision.com/johannes
Lineage: Theravada
Resident Director: Shirley Johannesen
Description: Bi-monthly meditation group, Vipassana meditation retreats,
Guest lecturers & meditation teachers, Dhamma study & discussion groups.
Updated: 26 May 2000
Sources used: johannes@cadvision.com
Edmonton
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Name: KCL Edmonton
Address: c/o Peter & Anette Piasecki, #306, 10149-83 Ave.
City: Edmonton
Prov: Alberta
Zip: TGE 2C5
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Peter & Anette Piasecki
Telephone: 403-439-1381
Lineage: Tibetan (Kagyu)
Affiliation: Kamsang Choling International Centers
Spiritual Director: Lama Ole Nydahl
Updated: 2 Sep 95
Sources used: Russell Howell <cosvoyage@aol.com>
BRITISH COLUMBIA
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Burnaby
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Name: Kagyu Kunkhyab Chuling
Address: 4939 Sidley Street
City: Burnaby
State: British Columbia
Zip: V5J 1T6
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Sabina Kirst
Telephone: (604) 434-4920
Fax: (604) 434-4920
WWW:
E-mail: ldavis@eznet.ca
Lineage: Tibetan Kagyu
Affiliation: Kalu Rinpoche/Kagyu Dharma
Resident Director: Haike Nissen/Sabina Kirst
Spiritual Director: Tsenjur Rinpoche
Teachers:
Description: Regular evening pujas. Visiting teachers. Retreat
land on Saltspring Island with accommodation for
private personal retreats and organized group
seminars. Kagyu Kunkhyab Chuling offers seminars
on Saltspring Island on approximately three long
weekends every year, April, August and October or
November.
Newsletter: Endless Knot, quarterly, $10.00/year
Updated: 19 Mar 96
Sources used: Linda Davis <ldavis@eznet.ca>
Duncan
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Name: Thubten Choling
Address: 5810 Wilson Ave
City: Duncan
State: B.C.
Zip: V9L 1K4
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Jhampa Shaneman
Telephone: 604-746-8110
Fax: 604-746-8110
WWW: http://www.anchor-web.com/Daka/thubten.html
E-mail: jhampas@island.net
Lineage: Tibetan Gelugpa, Nyingma
Affiliation:
Resident Director: Jhampa Shaneman
Spiritual Director: Jhampa Shaneman
Teachers: Jhampa Shaneman, Zasep Tulku, Geshe Kaldan, Lingtrul
Rinpoche, Lati Rinpoche
Description: Sunday evenings: Dharma talk and meditation.
Monday eveings: Dharma discussion and meditation.
Wednesday evening: Meditation, no particular form,
open to all traditions.
Periodic weekend retreats and days of meditation.
Principal tantric practices Yamantaka and Vajra Yogini.
Visiting teachers in the Gelukpa and Nyingma tradition
occasionally available for teaching First Stupa on
Vancouver Island (see home page). Soon to be certified
to perform marriages in the province of British Columbia.
Newsletter: B.A.S.I.S. published quarterly, yearly subscription $10.
Lists events of Thubten Choling
Updated: 27 Jan 99
Sources used: Jhampa Shaneman <jhampas@duncan.island.net>
Powell River
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Name: Zen Fellowship
Address: PO Box 273
City: Powell River
Prov: BC
Zip: V8A 4Z6
Country: Canada
Lineage: Zen
Updated: 2 Feb 95
Sources used: Tricycle magazine (Winter 94)
Vancouver
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Name: Dharma Group Vancouver
Address: c/o Jolanta Pyra, #201-1230 E. 8th Ave
City: Vancouver
Prov: BC
Zip: V5T 1V12
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Jolanta Pyra
Telephone: 604-876 3875
Fax: 604-875-9606
Lineage: Tibetan (Kagyu)
Affiliation: Kamsang Choling International Centers
Spiritual Director: Lama Ole Nydahl
Updated: 2 Sep 95
Sources used: Russell Howell <cosvoyage@aol.com>
Name: Karuna Meditation Society
Address: #25, 12 West 10th Avenue
City: Vancouver
State: British Columbia
Zip: V5Y 1R6
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Michelle Mills
Telephone: 604-874-4093
Fax: 604-874-4093
WWW:
E-mail: millsm@direct.ca
Lineage: Soto Zen
Affiliation: Independent; informal connection with San Francisco
Zen Center
Resident Director: elected Board of Directors
Spiritual Director: Do On Michelle Mills
Teachers: Kristin Penn
Description: Weekly zazen, monthly day retreats, non-residential
weekend zazenkai, annual residential sesshin. Lineage of
Dogen Zenji and Shunryu Suzuki.
Newsletter: Karuna Meditation Society Newsletter - three
times a year. $15 donation requested.
Updated: 19 Dec 1997.
Sources used: Michelle Mills <millsm@direct.ca>
Name: Partzandi Centre
Address: 646 Salish Street, Comox
City: Vancouver Island
Prov: BC
Zip: V9N
Country: Canada
Telephone: 604-399-4133
Lineage: Tibetan, New Kadampa
Affiliation: Manjushri Mahayana Buddhist Centre, Ulverston, UK
Spiritual Director: Lama Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Updated: 15 Nov 95
Sources used: Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
Name: Westcoast Dharma Society
Address: 2224 Larch St.
City: Vancouver
State: BC
Zip: V6K 3P7
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Linda McDonald
Telephone: 604 731-5469
E-mail: marsha.trew@ubc.ca
Teachers: Primarily from IMS and Spirit Rock
Description: Registered charity. Six to ten nonresidential retreats per
year. Residential retreats are likely in 1997. Tape Lending
Library.
Newsletter: Twice each year.
Updated: 16 Jan 96
Sources used: Marsha Trew <marsha.trew@ubc.ca>
Name: Zen Centre of Vancouver
Address: 4269 Brant Street
City: Vancouver
Prov: BC
Zip: V5N 5B5
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Eshin John Godfrey
Telephone: 604 879 0229
WWW: www.zen.ca
E-mail: vancouver@zen.ca
Lineage: Zen
Affiliation: Rinzai-ji (Joshu Sasaki Roshi)
Resident Director: Eshin John Godfrey (Zen Priest)
Spiritual Director: same
Teachers: same
Description: Maintains a permanent Zendo for regular zazen
meetings. Instruction available. ceremonies
available, One day retreats every month, Five day
retreats 2 or 3 times per year. There is an
associated group in Victoria, BC.
Updated: 4 Jan 2002
Sources used: Eshin John Godfrey
NOVA SCOTIA
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Halifax
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Name: The Celtic Buddhist Church of the Crazy Heart Lineage
Address: 1200 Tower Road, No 703
City: Halifax
Prov: NS
Zip: B3H 4K6
Country: Canada
Updated: 2 Feb 95
Sources used: Tricycle magazine (Winter 94)
Name: Shambhala International
Address: 1084 Tower Road
City: Halifax
State: Nova Scotia
Zip: B3H 2Y5
Country: CANADA
Contact-person: webmaster@shambhala.org
Telephone: 902.425.4275
Fax: 902.423.2750
WWW: http://www.shambhala.org/
Lineage: Karma Kargyu / Nyingma
Affiliation: Shambhala International, Shambhala Training
International, (Vajradhatu/dharmadhatu)
Resident Director: John Rockwell
Spiritual Director: Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
Updated: 7 Apr 96
Sources used: Robert Fischoff <ah198@ccn.cs.dal.ca>
ONTARIO
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Kinmount
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Name: Dharma Center of Canada
Address: RR #1, Galway Rd
City: Kinmount
Prov: ON
Zip: K0M 2A0
Country: Canada
Telephone: 705-488-2704
Fax: 705-488-2704
Updated: 2 Feb 95
Sources used: Tricycle magazine (Winter 94)
Madoc
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Name: Orgyan Osal Cho Dzong Buddhist Monastery & Retreat Centre
Address: RR #3, Box 68, 1755 Lingham Lake Road
City: Madoc
Prov: Ontario
Zip: K0K 2kO
Country: Canada
Contact: Lama Jigme
Telephone: (613) 967-7432
Lineage: Vajrayana - Nyingmapa
Affiliation: Palyul Namdroling Monastery, Karnataka, India
Spiritual: Vajracharya Ven.Lama Jampa Rabjam, Rinpoche
Teachers: Ven. Lama Jampa, Rinpoche; Lama Jigme
Newsletter: Orgyan Dzong News - annual
Updated: 2 Sep 96
Sources used: Orgyan Osal Cho Dzong
Tamworth
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Name: Kryirong Choling Retreat
Address: RR 2 Box 468
City: Tamworth
Prov: ON
Country: Canada
Telephone: 613-379-5133
Lineage: Tibetan
Updated: 2 Feb 95
Sources used: Tricycle magazine (Winter 94)
Thunder Bay
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Name: Arrow River Community Centre
Address: Box 2, RR7
City: Thunder Bay
State: Ontario
Zip: P7C - 5V5
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Punnadhammo Bhikkhu or Stu Muirhead (ARCC President)
Telephone: 807-933-4434
Fax:
WWW: http://www.baynet.net/~arcc/
E-mail: arcc@baynet.net or Stu_Muirhead@classic.msn.com
Lineage: Thai Forest tradition, Ajahn Chah lineage
Affiliation: Amaravati Buddhist Monastery [UK]
Resident Director:
Spiritual Director: Punnadhammo Bhikkhu
Teachers: Punnadhammo Bhikkhu
Description: Monastic retreat centre. Normally offers a three
week retreat in the summer Longer retreats can be
arranged for experienced meditators. Teachings
focus on anapanasati and vipassana
Newsletter: Northern Aurora. Irregular. Paid for by donation.
Send request to the centre.
Updated: 10 July 99
Sources used: Punnadhammo Bhikkhu <arcc@baynet.net>
Toronto
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Name: Chandrakirti Buddhist Centre
Address: 1055 Yonge Street, Suite #207
City: Toronto
Prov: Ontario
Zip: M4W 2L2
Country: Canada
Telephone: 416-929-0734
E-Mail: chandra@pathcom.com
Lineage: Tibetan, New Kadampa
Affiliation: Manjushri Mahayana Buddhist Centre, Ulverston, UK
Spiritual Director: Lama Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Updated: 5 May 97
Sources used: Kelsang Khedrub <chandra@pathcom.com>
Name: Mountain Moon Sangha
Address: 10/939 Aveue Road
City: Toronto
Prov: ON
Zip: M5P 2K7
Country: Canada
Telephone: (416) 485 7659
Email: s311107@student.uq.edu.au
Lineage: Sanbo Kyodan
Teachers: Zen Master Roselyn Stone (Sei-un An)
WWW: http://smople.thehub.com.au/~jan/mms/
Updated: 27 Jan 99
Sources Used: Michelle Spuler <s311107@student.uq.edu.au>
Name: Ontario Zen Center
Address: c/o John Carducci, 22 Oakmont Street #1514
City: Toronto
Prov: ON
Zip: M6P 2M7
Country: Canada
Lineage: Korean Zen (Zen Master Seung Sahn)
Affiliation: Kwan Um School of Zen
Updated: 12 Mar 96
Sources used: Craig Presson <fcp@traveller.com>
Name: Toronto Nichiren Buddhist Church
Address: 20 Caithness Av.
City: Toronto
Prov: Ontario
Zip: M4J 3X7
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Rev. Shingyo Imai
Telephone: 416-463-9783
Lineage: Nichiren Shu
Updated: 28 Aug 95
Sources used: Michael Faulconer <neilmike@pacifier.com>
Name: Toronto Theravada Community
Address: c/o Silver @ 85 Ridge Hill Drive
City: Toronto
Prov: ON
Zip: M6C 2J7
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Modya "Mark" Silver
Telephone: 416-581-3045
E-mail: mcsilver@on.bell.ca
Lineage: Theravada
Affiliation: Non-affiliated. However city and country retreats
are mostly with students of Ajahn Chah (Thai.)
Description: Sitting group meets once a week. Sponsors 2-3 city
weekend retreats a year and also a 9 day country
retreat. Retreat leaders come mainly from the
tradition of Ajahn Chah (e.g. Ajahn Viradhammo,
Ajahn Passano), however, the community welcomes all
Buddhist teachings and teachers.
Updated: 10 Aug 95
Sources used: Modya Silver <mcsilver@on.bell.ca>
Name: Zen Buddhist Temple
Address: 86 Vaughan Rd.
City: Toronto
Province: Ontario
Zip: M6C 2M1
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Sanha Park
Telephone: (416) 658-0137
Fax:
Website: www.zenbuddhisttemple.org
E-mail: buddhisttemple@colosseum.com
Lineage: Korean zen
Affiliation: Buddhist Society for Compassionate Wisdom
Resident Director: Ven. Samu Sunim
Spiritual Director: Ven. Samu Sunim
Teachers: Anicca Bengt Skoggard & Anjali Jacques Oules
Description: Sunday Public Meditation Services (9:30 am & 5 pm);
Introductory Meditation Courses. It is our aim to
teach meditation and build a sangha who wishes to
lead a lifestyle based on right livelihood and
eco-Buddhist principles.
Newsletter: Published monthly online
Updated: 7 Mar 2001
QUEBEC
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Montreal
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Name: Centre Bouddhiste Kankala
Address: 4158 St-Hubert
City: Montreal
State: Quebec
Zip: H2L 4A8
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Christine ArsFerry
Telephone: (514) 521-2529
Fax:
WWW:
E-mail: kankala@microtec.net
Lineage: Kadampa
Affiliation: New Kadampa Tradition
Resident Director: Scott ArsFerry
Spiritual Director: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche
Teachers: Christine ArsFerry (French), Scott ArsFerry (English),
friendly atmosphere, which openned in February 1996.
It is an ideal place for anyone wishing to learn how
friendly atmoshphere, which opened its doors in February
1996. It is an ideal place for anyone wishing to learn how
to improve the quality of their day to day life through
integrating Buddhist meditation and practice.
Newsletter: Full Moon Journal.
Updated: 4 May 97
Sources used: <Scott ArsFerry>
Name: KCL Montreal
Address: c/o Clara Braitstein, PO Box 385
City: Hudson Heights
Prov: Quebec
Zip: J0P 1J0
Country: Canada
Contact-person: Clara Braitstein
Telephone: 524-439-1381
Lineage: Tibetan (Kagyu)
Affiliation: Kamsang Choling International Centers
Spiritual Director: Lama Ole Nydahl
Updated: 2 Sep 95
Sources used: Russell Howell <cosvoyage@aol.com>
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