Sumeru News — Buddhism in Canada

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.

On the canadianbuddhism.info directory of Canadian Buddhist organizations, you will be starting to see an additional field being added: ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE. For starters, I'm just going to add how many acres each rural centre's property comprises. This will be one small step forward in doing environmental audits on them. My ultimate goal is to share best practices from these organizations. Here is one example of what that might look like: https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/ajahn-sona-off-the-grid/

Attention Canadian Buddhist centres: Based on current Canada Post shipping prices, I can ship boxes anywhere in Canada with quick service, trackable for $21 (Small) = 2 - 8 books depending on their size $26.50 (Medium) = 4 - 20 books depending on their size $34 (Large) = I should be so lucky you need a box this big! Canada Post is on the verge of raising rates on their pre-paid flat ship cross-country boxes. The books themselves are available to you at wholesale (50% discount) or less in the case of some books. Please let your centre management team...

We're very proud to be Canada's leading independent publisher of Buddhist books. We're also very proud to be able to bring you so many wonderful Buddhist books by Canadian authors. Here's what our Sumeru Canadiana 2022 catalogue looks like! For a complete listing, download the high resolution PDF version with live links for each title here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2503/2728/files/Sumeru_Canadiana_2022.pdf?v=1658792417

I've started updating the Candian Buddhism Directory after a long hiatus. If you seen centres with wrong information of typos, please let me know. There are more than 600 centres and each one takes 5-10 minutes to update, so I should be on this project for quite a while.