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A Thousand Hands: A Guide to Caring for Your Buddhist Community

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We are pleased to announce the upcoming autumn publication of A Thousand Hands: A Guide to Caring for Your Buddhist Community, edited by Nathan Jishin Michon and Daniel Clarkson Fisher. Nathan Jishin Michon is a PhD student at Graduate Theological Union, studying Buddhist caregiving. He is ordained as both an interfaith minister and a Buddhist... Read more »

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Buddhist Ministry Initiative

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Here is a recent article from www.buddhistdoor.net on the Buddhist Ministry Initiative. The conference took place earlier this year at Harvard Divinity School (HDS) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The three-day event was titled “Education and Buddhist Ministry: Whither—and Why?” Here is the link to their program: http://hds.harvard.edu/academics/buddhist-ministry-initiative The Buddhist Ministry Initiative, founded with the support of The Robert... Read more »

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Alexandra David Neel YA bio

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Next up from Sumeru… INCOGNITO, a novel of Alexandra David Neel. Here’s a sneak peek.

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Cypress Trees in the Garden

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We are pleased to announce that Richard Bryan McDaniel’s final volume in his quartet of books on the history of Zen is now available. Richard Bryan McDaniel’s Cypress Trees in the Garden: The Second Generation of Zen Teaching in America continues the history of North American Zen which he began in The Third Step East: Zen... Read more »

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Escape from Tibet – YA nonfiction from Annick

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We had the opportunity recently to read Escape from Tibet, an award-winning true story based on the documentary film of the same name by Nick Gray, co-written by Nick Gray and seasoned Toronto writer, Laura Scandiffio, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The book was published by Annick Press in 2014 for a... Read more »

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