The Good Ancestor
Meditations on bringing benefit to all beings, past, present, and future
John Harvey Negru is publisher at The Sumeru Press, Canada’s largest independent Buddhist book publisher, and author most recently of Bodhisattva 4.0: A Primer for Engaged Buddhists. The book comprises 108 short introductions to the ethical issues inherent in emerging technologies, environmental crises, and a sustainable future, from a Buddhist perspective, supplemented by 500+ resources for further study and networking. He has been involved in many Buddhist community development projects and environmental causes over the past 50 years, and has been a technological design educator for more than 25 years.
These articles about Green Buddhism are adapted from topics in Bodhisattva 4.0: A Primer for Engaged Buddhists.
Bodhisattva 4.0 is published monthly.
Meditations on bringing benefit to all beings, past, present, and future
How chaplaincy fills a special role in contemporary Dharma leadership
The transmission and transformation of Zen in…
How user experience design can help inform Buddhists..
A Buddhist monastery in the remote Canadian mountains..
A call to bring our practice to the darkest corners of our…
Bringing the sphere of our bodhisattva activity to care…
From reaching out to deities to urging government action…
How systems thinking can help Buddhists understand the…
Examining games as a way to see deeper into our human…
Making the conditions for compassionate transformation