Sumeru News — Healing

21 Days to Die: The Canadian Guide to End of Life

• Aging • Buddhist Psychology • Canada • Chaplaincy • Death • Greenbank Books • Healing • Health • Hospice Care • Passings • Sumeru Books

Coming soon! ISBN 978-1-896559-72-8 (pbk)  /  $19.95 CAD 160 pages, 6.14 x 9.21 in  /  Illustrated (charts + diagrams) About the Book For most people with advancing diseases, there are signs that death will be soon. Diseases have many trajectories, but at a certain stage, the ceasing of life becomes certain, with a predictable sequence. At 21 days, there are usually no more treatment options with any real promise of quality of life. Death is a mystery, and we don’t want to take all the mystery away. However, there are steps we each can take to be fully, effectively present...

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Shinko Roshi and the Five Goddesses

• Buddhism of the Future • Engaged Buddhism • Healing • Memoir • Oppression • Practice! • Sumeru Books • Teacher Stories • Women • Women in Buddhism • Zen

Shinko Roshi, the subject of my latest column for Buddhistdoor, talks about her journey through Zen to invocations of the Five Goddesses. Here's the link: https://www.buddhistdoor.net/features/shinko-roshi-and-the-five-goddesses

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Kalyanamitra: A Model for Buddhist Spiritual Care

• Buddhism of the Future • Buddhist community • Chaplaincy • Education • Engaged Buddhism • Healing • Health • Prison • Social Action • Sumeru Books

Happily beginning editing and design on Rev. Monica Sanford's new book,  KALYANAMITRA: A Model for Buddhist Spiritual Care, which will be the 2nd book in our Chaplaincy Training series, along with A THOUSAND HANDS: A Guide to Caring For Your Buddhist Community. Aiming for publication in Autumn 2020.  

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The Zen Priestess and the Snake

• Environmental Issues • Healing • Women • Zen

Just finished the 2nd edit of Shinko Roshi's upcoming book, The Zen Priestess and the Snake: A Woman’s Path of Transformation and Healing through Rediscovery of the Great Mother Tradition and about to start the design process. Planning for an Autumn 2020 launch for her book.

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Occupy This Body at the AAR

• Buddhist Studies • Events • Healing • Health • Women

I've just been informed that OCCUPY THIS BODY: A Buddhist Memoir, by Sharon A. Suh, will be featured in a book panel at the American Academy of Religion conference in Boston in November 2020. https://sumeru-books.com/products/occupy-this-body

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