Sumeru News

Here's a link to the slide deck for my recent presentation at the Buddhist Literary Festival for Canada 2022, about how we evaluate Buddhist literature, and also about how modern publishing works.  https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2503/2728/files/Sumeru_BLFC_2022.pdf?v=1667925793

We're pleased to announce that The Snow Leopard's New Friend is a Bronze medal winner in the 2022 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards, under the category of Environmental Issues. https://sumeru-books.com/products/the-snow-leopards-new-friend

I'm delighted to announce that Sumeru will be publishing Jeff Wilson's upcoming book: Living Nembutsu Applying Shinran’s Radically Engaged Buddhism in Life and Society Publication planned for Spring 2023.

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...