Sumeru author Innen Ray Parchelo speaks with Ted Meissner of the Secular Buddhist podcast… Chances are if you are on a silent meditation retreat, the primary focus is sitting practice. Not just on retreats, either; sitting has a dominant focus in contemplative practice, interspersed with periods of short walking which seem geared to loosen up... Read more »
Here’s a review from Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly of A THOUSAND HANDS: A Guide to Caring for Your Buddhist Community, edited by Nathan Jishin Michon and Daniel Clarkson Fisher (Sumeru, 2016). Buddhists Helping Buddhists
The XVIIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies will be held in Toronto, August 20-25, 2017. Here is the agenda. Scroll down for the specific topics of panels, papers, and presentations… Congress Schedule *All event venues are at the University of Toronto, St. George Campus Saturday, August 19, 2017 15:00 – 18:00 Pre-registration (Bahen... Read more »
Ted Meissner, of The Secular Buddhism Podcast, recently interviewed Dr. Michael Glantz (Consortium for Capacity Building, UColorado-Boulder) and me about an eco-Buddhist Facebook group we started some time ago, called Plot to Save the Earth. The group was started with Dhiraj Pradhananga, from Small Earth Nepal. A global Buddhist Eco-Initiative. If you have relevant articles... Read more »