{"id":10395,"date":"2020-09-04T13:04:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dharma.org\/?page_id=10395"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:50:22","slug":"ims-book-club","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dharma.org\/ims-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"IMS Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each month, the IMS Book Club brings together authors and readers for a facilitated discussion on the featured dharma-book-of-the-month. Our book club offers participants a deeper experience and engagement with Theravada Buddhist teachings and practice through the lens of the selected book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Essential Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The IMS Book Club is entirely\u00a0<strong>free of charge<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>All Book Club<strong>\u00a0meetings will be held online<\/strong>\u00a0 through the <a href=\"https:\/\/ims.dharma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMS Online Learning Center<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Each monthly Book Club event will feature a new book and one or more group meetings with the book&#8217;s author.<\/li>\n<li>Beyond these basic guidelines, authors will be able to tailor their book club meetings as they see fit, so the structure of book club gatherings may vary from month to month.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dana:<\/strong>\u00a0 If you enjoy this free offering and would like to give to IMS, we will include donation links when we email the video recordings of each Book Club meeting to registered members after each session. Note: authors\/teachers benefit from the promotion and sale of their books. If other teachers, or assistant teachers, help support a Book Club, IMS will compensate those teachers directly for their time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Want to Join?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To join the IMS Book Club, simply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/app.e2ma.net\/app2\/audience\/signup\/1928302\/1756215\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>register here<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/a>You will receive monthly invitations to sign up for the book-of-the-month discussions that interest you. Although there is no charge to join the book club, participants will need to secure their own copies of the books prior to the start of the monthly discussion group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How Are Books Chosen?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All titles featured in the IMS Book Club are selected by IMS staff and Guiding Teachers. 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