The Little Book of Buddhist Humor is Looking for Submissions

Are you feeling funny folks? After the chuckles your little round Buddhabelly had after reading of the “Buddhism and comedy connection” over at the Shambhala Sun, you fancy yourself a pretty funny no-self.

Well here’s your chance to submit a story to an upcoming collection to be compiled in “The Little Book of Buddhist Humor”. Edited by Sumeru Books‘ John Negru and notable Buddhist scholar and author Charles Prebish, it will be published via the aforementioned Sumeru Books and is now seeking submissions.

In difficult times, we feel that the Buddhist world has the opportunity to contribute to and inject some happy, Buddhist-inspired humor into our everyday lives.

As such, we’re inviting any of you who have clever, funny, silly, and laughable stories that you have experienced in your personal and/or professional work and practice in Buddhism to submit these short episodes to us for possible inclusion. We are looking for stories from Buddhist teachers, scholars and sangha members. Maybe something really funny happened to you at a Buddhist center, or something humorous occurred while attending a professional conference, or a personal communication involving Buddhism brought a silly smile to your face. We’ll collect the best of those stories submitted and publish them in our book.

We truly hope to make this a FUN project that will bring smiles to people worldwide, and we’ll be so grateful for any stories you may provide that will help us achieve our goal.

Please submit your stores (no more than three pages long and must be tasteful and something you are willing to share publicly) to Charles at charles.prebish at usu.edu or John at [email protected] by Wesak  2014 (May 14).

Now let’s all laugh a bit more shall we? The benefits are clear - but if you don’t believe me, listen to funnymaster John Cleese.