Sumeru News — Politics

A Russian edition of One Belt One Road: China's Long March Toward 2049 is in the works. Meanwhile, here's a review of the English edition from Russia: The One Belt One Road Initiative: China's move to global leadership by Sergey Zhiltsov - Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Department of Political Science and Political Philosophy of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry One Belt One Road: China’s Long March Toward 2049 Michael H. Glantz with Robert J. Ross and Gavin G. Daugherty A Greenbank Book, The Sumeru Press Inc. Canada, 2019 Abstract: the review examines the main provisions...

Michael Glantz, author of One Belt One Road: CHINA'S LONG MARCH TOWARD 2049, was recently interviewed by OBOReurope, a thinktank specializing in the field. Here's the link to that interview:  https://www.oboreurope.com/en/glantz-one-belt-one-road/

Ecodharma: Buddhist Teachings for the Ecological Crisis David Loy Wisdom Publications, 2019 ISBN 978-1-61429-382-8 ebook ISBN 978-1-61429-398-9 240 pages Buddhists: we have a problem! The transcendentalists see liberation as escape from this world of dukkha. The mindfulness proponents see liberation as adjusting our perspective to fit in better with this world, without the dukkha. Both views are dualistic mis-interpretations holding us back from engaged practice, because they are both based on an individualistic approach. My enlightenment. My liberation. My suffering. People all over the planet are waking up to the fact that our current “business as usual” approach to civilization is...

A Toronto event focusing on Dr. Abedkar's Buddhist work with the Dalits (aka Untouchables) of India. Sponsored by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Toronto, the Munk School of Global Affairs and Foreign Policy, the Centre for South Asian Studies, and the Buddhist Education Foundation for Canada. Thursday, October 25, 2018