Sumeru News — Books

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

A book trailer, created for Sumeru by Mad McDaniel for After Ithaca: Journeys in Deep Time by Charlotte Du Cann, just released under our Greenbank Books imprint. A collection of reportage from several decades on the front lines of environmental activism in the UK. One of the first two single-author books from the Dark Mountain collective. Have a look and let us know what you think... And feel free to share.