Understanding the Tibetan Buddhist Temple: A photographic study of Vajrayana shrine offerings by John Harvey Negru is an extensively annotated portfolio of 154 colour photographs of statues, shrine offerings, thangka paintings, and other ritual objects from Karma Tekchen Zabsal Ling, a Thrangu lineage Karma Kargyu centre in Aurora, Ontario, Canada.

John Harvey Negru [Karma Yonten Gyatso] is founder of The Sumeru Press, Canada’s largest independent Buddhist book publisher, and hosts canadianbuddhism.info, an online directory comprising more than 600 centres. Understanding the Tibetan Buddhist Temple is his second book about Buddhist iconography. His earlier book on the subject, Understanding the Chinese Buddhist Temple, was published in 2010.

The Sumeru Press Inc. is dedicated to publishing and distributing Buddhist books and art, with a particular focus on Buddhism in Canada. It celebrates and supports all lineages.