Sumeru News

LIVING NEMBUTSU: Applying Shinran’s Radically Engaged Buddhism in Life and Society -- Jeff Wilson https://sumeru-books.com/products/living-nembutsu and ENGAGED BUDDHISM IN JAPAN: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Exemplars -- Jonathan S. Watts Volume 1 An Engaged Buddhist History of Japan from Its Origins to the Dawn of the 21st Century https://sumeru-books.com/products/engaged-buddhism-in-japan-volume-1

Phew! Year-end is done. I'm happy to report that this year Sumeru authors and I were able to donate more than $3830 dollars to charities, including the Vancouver Food Bank, CARES animal shelter, the Gaden Phodrang Foundation, Karuna Canada, Buddhist Global Relief, Red Cross Ukrainian Relief, and a variety of temples and Zen centers. Bowing.

Nick Hunt, whose collection of short stories we published earlier this year (https://sumeru-books.com/products/loss-soup-and-other-stories) was recently interviewed in Resurgence & Ecologist magazine about how fiction, his stories, and the larger work of the Dark Mountain collective, are a way to grapple with the hyperobject that is ecosystem collapse and extinction. You can read the article here: https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article6073-a-darkening-terrain.html

HEAR AN INTERVIEW WITH DOSHO PORT ROSHI ON THE GREAT HEARTLAND BUDDDHIST TEMPLE OF TOLEDO PODCAST HERE: https://thedrinkinggourd.org/interview-with-dosho-port-roshi-going-through-the-mysterys-one-hundred-questions

Bloom: Buddhist Reflections on Serenity and Love, Ajahn Sona Zen Conversations, Richard Bryan McDaniel Catholicism and Zen, Richard Bryan McDanielThe Driftwood Shrine, John Wolff An American Buddhist Life, Charles Prebish Lotus Petals in the Snow, ed. Tanya McGinnity