Sumeru News — Books

Thanks to an initiative by the Toronto Centre for Applied Buddhism and a subvention from the University of Toronto, we will be producing 800 English copies and 200 French copies of The Inner Path / Un sentier intérieur for free distribution to prison chaplains across Canada. Both the author and Sumeru have waived their royalties for this project as a gesture of dāna.

We are delighted to have launched two new books about Buddhist chaplaincy (aka psychospiritual care) recently at a conference hosted by Emmanuel College at the University of Toronto for the Buddhist Spiritual Care Educators in North America (BSCENA) -- "Transforming Wounds into Wisdom: Interreligious Perspectives on Moral Injury Through a Buddhist Lens.” The two books are: Kalyanamitra, volume II: Pragmatic Skills for Buddhist Spiritual Care, by Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford with contributions from Victor Gabriel, Nathan Jishin Michon, Henry C.H. Shiu, & Linda Hochstetler. The Buddhist Campus Chaplaincy Sourcebook, edited by Ji Hyang Padma and Jonathan Makransky, with contributions from Harrison Blum,...

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

Here's a link to the slide deck for my recent presentation at the Buddhist Literary Festival for Canada 2022, about upcoming titles from Sumeru. This was a companion presentation to my earlier talk. Many Sumeru authors also presented at the event! https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2503/2728/files/Sumeru_New_Titles_BLFC_2022.pdf?v=1667925824

Here's a link to the slide deck for my recent presentation at the Buddhist Literary Festival for Canada 2022, about how we evaluate Buddhist literature, and also about how modern publishing works.  https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2503/2728/files/Sumeru_BLFC_2022.pdf?v=1667925793