Sumeru News — Culture

Embracing Uncertainty, coming soon

• Buddhist Psychology • Buddhist Studies • Culture • Ethics • Japan • Memoir • Music • Sumeru Books • Zen

EMBRACING UNCERTAINTY: Future Jazz, That 13th Century Buddhist Monk, and the Invention of Cultures. An anthropological memoir of the author’s experiences in Japan and other places to explore ideas of uncertainty and undifferentiation as they relate to ethics and culture. The book threads a discussion of jazz improvisation as metaphor for the human experience and the ongoing process of change that is the world. The Zen monk in the subtitle is Dōgen, who figures prominently in the book. John Traphagan is a professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology at the University of Texas Austin. The book is illustrated by Amane...

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Games and Buddhist Practice

• Buddhism of the Future • Culture • Engaged Buddhism • Right Livelihood • Secular Buddhism

My latest column for Buddhist Door Global.

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Maker Culture

• Buddhist Psychology • Culture • Right Livelihood • Technology

Here's my latest column from Buddhistdoor Global in Hong Kong. It's about maker culture. https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/maker

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Happy Buddhist Christmakkah

• Buddhist Psychology • Buddhist Studies • Burma • Children • China • Culture • Dalai Lama • Dance • Death • Engaged Buddhism • Film • Food • Health • Human Rights • India • Japan • Karmapa • Mahayana • MBSR • Meditation • Mindfulness • Movies • Music • Nepal • North American Buddhism • Photography • Pilgrimage • Politics • Practice! • Psychology • Science • Secular Buddhism • Social Action • Teachers • Temples • Theravada • Thich Nhat Hanh • Tibet • Vajrayana • Walking • Zen

Happy Buddhist Christmakkah! Sumeru's gift to you is that we are now North America's largest independent Buddhist movie store, in addition to our book publishing activities, just in time for the holidays. Yes, you can find some of these films elsewhere, mostly at much higher prices from scalpers, but you will not find such a large curated collection anywhere else. I will also freely admit that Amazon will occasionally post ridiculously low prices for these films either as loss leaders to capture market share, or from third-party sellers who may or may not deliver as promised. With Sumeru, you can...

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Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu on the tangled relationships among science, religion and culture

• Buddhist Psychology • Culture • Politics • Practice! • Science • Winnipeg

Via Truth is Within, Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu’s blog… I was thinking to write an article about the difference between religion and culture, but it doesn’t seem like the discussion would be complete without including religion’s best frenemy, science. So, here goes. I’m writing this article both because these three topics are of course of great professional... Read more »

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