Sumeru News

Sumeru is pleased to announce we will be publishing Jonathan S. Watts' upcoming two volume work, Engaged Buddhism in JapanVolume 1: An Engaged Buddhist History of Japan from Its Origins to the Dawn of the 21st CenturyVolume II: Buddhist Social Engagement in Japan in the 21st Century Jonathan S. Watts graduated with a BA in religious studies from Princeton University in 1989 and an MA in human sciences from the Saybrook Institute in 2002. He has been a researcher at the Jodo Shu Research Institute in Tokyo since 1999 and the International Buddhist Exchange Center since 2005. He has also been an associate...

Buddhistdoor Global recently hosted a two-day online conference on environmental issues, Buddhist Voices in the Climate Crisis. As one of the sponsors, my presentation was about the free Buddhist Center Environmental Action Plan Toolkit that Sumeru published several years ago. You can view my presentation here: https://youtu.be/e6lMH5UjLMc?t=4386 And of course, you are welcome to watch the entire conference proceedings as well, posted in the same place!

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Just a quick note to say I'm now working on Rafe Martin's upcoming book, A Zen Life of Buddha. Rafe is a lay Zen teacher in the Harada-Yasutani koan line. He is founding teacher of Endless Path Zendo, Rochester, NY, and is also an award-winning author and storyteller whose work has been cited in Time, Newsweek, NY Times, and USA Today.

We're very proud to be Canada's leading independent publisher of Buddhist books. We're also very proud to be able to bring you so many wonderful Buddhist books by Canadian authors. Here's what our Sumeru Canadiana 2022 catalogue looks like! For a complete listing, download the high resolution PDF version with live links for each title here: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/2503/2728/files/Sumeru_Canadiana_2022.pdf?v=1658792417