[Buddha-l] Canada cancels non-Christian prison chaplaincies

Richard Hayes richard.hayes.unm at gmail.com
Sat Oct 13 05:03:00 MDT 2012


On Oct 10, 2012, at 2:52 PM, "Jo" <ugg-5 at spro.net> wrote:

> Interesting--what this suggests is that some Buddhists in Canada are busy
> bringing Buddhism to prisoners, as happens in some states in the USA.

Yes, there are several disciples of Goenka who have offered vipassanā in Canadian prisons. They usually dissociate the practice from Buddhism, however, and offer it as a universal practice without any particular religious affiliation.

Richard Hayes


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