Sumeru News — Buddhism in Canada

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.

Sumeru is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of   GEMS AN INTRODUCTION TO CANADIAN BUDDHISM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE YOUNG AT HEART   The author is Ken Tanaka. Several years ago he wrote a similar book for the US market, which was published by BDK America, the U.S. branch of Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism, an international organization with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Late last year he approached me about doing a Canadian version and sent me the manuscript. The original obviously needed all the US references stripped out and Canadian ones put in....