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Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain Wen-shing Chou Princeton University Press 2018 Hardcover, 240 pp., 8 x 11.5, 88 color + 31 b/w illus. ISBN 9780691178646 $65.00 USD   China’s Holy Mountain: An Illustrated Journey into the Heart of Buddhism Christoph Baumer I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd. 2011 Hardcover, 384 pp., 9.33 x 11.38, full color throughout ISBN 9781848857001 $42.00 USD Mount Wutai is one of the four sacred Buddhist mountains of China, along with Emei, Jiuhua and Putuo. It is situated in the northeast, in Shanxi Province, and it is the highest peak in China. Wutai is home...

My Year of Dirt and Water: Journal of a Zen Monk’s Wife in Japan Tracy Franz Stone Bridge Press, 2018 308 pages, paperback, 5 x 8 x 5/8” $16.95/ $22.99 CAN ISBN: 9781611720426 (p), 9781611729306 Westerners have been writing about Japan since the first missionaries arrived there in the 16th century. In the 1800s, Lafcadio Hearn won international acclaim for his memoirs of his time there, and since then many others have added to the genre. It’s difficult to bring something fresh to the subject. There have also been a number of books recounting western encounters with Zen, often from...

Two new books from Sumeru, just in time for Buddha's birthday! Beginning, Middle & Zen: Tales from Canada to Korea and Back Again, by Glen Choi Elucidating Tathagatagarbha, by Master Tam Shek-wing

Here's an interview with Bonnie Sumana Ryan-Fisher on The Secular Buddhist podcast, episode 293 (May 13, 2018). http://secularbuddhism.org/2018/05/13/episode-293-bonnie-sumana-ryan-fisher-mindful-moment-52-weeks-of-mindfulness/ Bonnie Sumana Ryan-Fisher joins us to speak about her new book Mindful Moment: 52 Weeks of Mindfulness, Exercises and Reflections. "When I first heard about secular mindfulness programs like MBSR, I had a judgmental reaction. This isn’t Sati, you can’t condense mindfulness into eight weeks, this is a watering down… all of the usual criticisms from a traditional Buddhist point of view, even though I’m secular. Fortunately, this internal monologue did not go unnoticed, nor did it escape the reality of it being...

The Listening Body: A Mindfulness Approach for Recovery Details at http://ckchc.ca/new/