Sumeru News

Ottawa Friends of Tibet 21st gala

My wife and I had the pleasure of attending the Ottawa Friends of Tibet 21st gala last night. The OFT raises about $15,000 each year from the event. The money goes to support orphanages, seniors homes, and educational scholarships. These are located in India, Nepal, and Tibet. OFT's  main international partner is Child Haven International. Since this was the 21st annual event, an auspicious number, the evening's theme was thangka paintings of the 21 Taras, lent for the evening from homes within the Ottawa Tibetan community. Dinner was a buffet of Indian food and Tibetan momos, courtesy of Rinag Foods...

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Welcome to the new Sumeru Books website

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   We're pleased to introduce the new Sumeru Books site on the Shopify platform, which will give us a host of great new features to serve you better. For starters, we now offer fully secure e-commerce. You can now purchase from us directly as well as from the 3000+ online book stores who already represent us. You'll also find pages load faster (which is always nice). In addition to infrastructure, we have a few other new developments in the works... Buddhist films are coming soon! We have been busy forging relationships with a broad range of motion picture distributors around the...

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Sumeru has a major upgrade coming soon

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Sumeru has a major upgrade coming soon: we are leaving WordPress and moving to Shopify. The platform is much more robust and secure, faster, and offers a cleaner design that is better suited to a book publishing business. Two especially important features for us are the addition of reliable e-commerce on our site and on... Read more »

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INCOGNITO reviewed in ARTiculate

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INCOGNITO reviewed in ARTiculate, the bi-annual magazine of the West Kootenay Arts Council, in conjunction with a reading at the Nelson, BC, public library by Dianne Harke, author of INCOGNITO: The Astounding Life of Alexandra David-Neel (Sumeru 2016). This reading will be the second in what will hopefully be a vibrant series we’re calling A... Read more »

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Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies at U of T 1 year old

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A message from our director The Ho Centre is officially one year old! Thank you for your support throughout our first year, and we hope you will join us for what promises to be a busy second year. We have begun the year with our public workshop series on Tea and Buddhism. This series strives... Read more »

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