Open since December of 1970, Banyen Books and Sound is now "earthnested" at the corner of 4th & Dunbar in Vancouver, British Columbia. We are Canada's most comprehensive "metaphysical bookstore," offering a broad spectrum of resources from humanity's spiritual, healing, and earth wisdom traditions.

Banyen is an oasis, a crossroads, a meeting place... for East and West, the "old ways" and current discoveries and syntheses. Our beat is the "Perennial Philosophy" as well as our evolving learning edges and best practices in a wide variety of fields, from acupuncture to Zen, from childbirth and business to the Hermetic Mysteries, from the compost pile to the celestial spheres. We're "in the philosophy business," on "a street in the philosophy district" (as an old cartoon wagged). We welcome and celebrate the love of wisdom, be it in art, science, lifecraft, healing, visioning, religion, psychology, eco-design, gardening... Our service is to offer life-giving nourishment for the body (resilient, vital), the mind (trained, open), and the soul (resonant, connected, in-formed). Think of us as your open source bookstore for the University of Life.