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The Dhāraṇī of the Polished Gem
རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བརྡར་བའི་གཟུངས།

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Degé Kangyur, vol. 96 (rgyud, wa), folio 112.b

The Dhāraṇī of the Polished Gem includes a short dhāraṇī and instructions to polish a gemstone while reciting the dhāraṇī, and to imagine that this results in a rain of offering substances, which the reciter should then offer.

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Kamma, The Real Creator
By Dr. Mehm Tin Mon

Who is the Real Creator?
Who create Human beings, celestial beings and woeful beings?
Why are some born rich and some born poor?
Why some are ugly and some are beautiful?
Who are there ups and down in Life?
Who determines your fate and destiny?
How can you be rich and prosperous in every existence?

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Colour illustrated Graphic Novel
The Magic Life of Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa
By Eva Van Dam

From avenging evil sorcerer to devoted Buddhist ascetic to enlighted being—the story of Milarepa’s spectacular life is a powerful testimony to self-knowledge, transformation, and liberation. This artistically rendered graphic novel captures all the grit and drama of Milarepa’s story. It is the year 1050, and Milarepa is seeking vengeance on unscrupulous relatives for mistreating his mother and sister. Trained in dark arts and sorcery, he commands a rain of scorpions, snakes, and lizards to attack the villains. But when his teacher rebukes him for his evil deeds, Milarepa renounces black magic to seek mystic truth. He retreats to a cave where, after years of intense meditation, he acquires the the power to shape-shift. But most importantly he achieves the greatest victory of all—mastery over himself.

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Emptiness and Stillness
By Ajahn Brahm

This book has been produced to commemorate the 60th birthday of Ajahn Brahm. It has been generously sponsored for free distribution by his close lay disciples from Perth, interstate and overseas.
All the text is original material written specially for this publication. Likewise, many of the images were taken during recent Dhamma tours. Special thanks for wonderful pictures are due to supporters in Thailand, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Norway and Germany. Some of the photos are from The Buddhist Society of Western Australia archives and may bring back happy memories. Extracts from two of Ajahn’s Dhamma talks are also included.

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The Bestower of Supreme Wisdom: A Guru Yoga

༄༅། །བླ་མའི་རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཡེ་ཤེས་མཆོག་སྩོལ།

By Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo

Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo begins this work by qualifying guru yoga as the ultimate swift path of the great secret Vajrayāna. Most guru yoga texts include the fundamental Buddhist ritual of taking refuge, the bodhicitta foundation of Mahāyāna, the practice of purification and accumulation, the tantric practice of receiving empowerments, the generation and perfection stages, and dedication. In this way, guru yoga comprises a comprehensive, coherent, and rich practice.

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Sixty Songs of Milarepa
By Garma C. C. Chang

Milarepa, a cotton-clad yogi, wandered and taught the dharma, most famously through spontaneously composed songs, a colorful and down-to-earth way to convey the immediacy and depth of the Buddhist teachings. In this work, the songs are woven into a narrative that tells the stories of his most famous encounters with his students, including Gampopa and Rechungpa, and recount his victories over supernatural forces in the remote Himalayan mountains and caves where he meditated.

This translation brings to life the teachings of this extraordinary man. This classic of world literature is important for its narrative alone but is also a key contribution to those who seek inspiration for the spiritual path.

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Facing the Future
By Bhikkhu Bodhi

In this collection of essays, Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi uses the Buddha’s teaching as a lens through which to examine some of the confusions about social values that have engulfed us at the dawn of the new century.
The opening essay, “A Buddhist Social Ethic for the New Century,” sets the pace by drawing a contrast between the social system fostered by global capitalism and the type of social organization that might follow from a practical application of Buddhist principles.
“A Buddhist Model for Economic and Social Development” continues the argument by highlighting the economic, social, and ecological costs of industrial-growth society, sketching a more “people-friendly” alternative based on Buddhist values. “The Changing Face of Buddhism” opens with the question why, in traditional Buddhist countries, Buddhism today is losing its appeal to the young, on its way to becoming little more than a fossilized expression of ethnic culture; in attempting to answer this question be proposes some new lines of emphasis that might help to reverse this trend. In “Sangha at the Crossroads” he explores the problems that young monks face in finding a meaningful role in today’s rapidly changing world.

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The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva
By Gyalsey Thokmay Sangpo, Khenpo Sodargye Rinpoche

The Thirty-Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva, composed by the renowned Tibetan master, Thogme Zangpo, is a great treatise that summarizes the entire bodhisattva path and provides excellent pith instructions for Mahayana practice. This text is not only popular in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, but is also studied and practiced by countless Buddhists from different parts of the world.

This treatise categorizes all of the practices of the Buddhist path into those of lesser, middling, and great beings, in successive order. This works as a practical guide for following the path of the bodhisattvas, verse by verse. As a training manual, this treatise enables bodhichitta to increase naturally and become stronger in our minds after we completely understand it. Even if one doesn’t understand its real meaning, just by hearing the verses word by word, one’s compassion and loving-kindness will naturally increase.

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Keeping the Breath in Mind & Lessons in Samadhi, by Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo. (revised Dec. 15, 2018) A fundamental guidebook for breath meditation and practicing the jhānas.

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Meditation Pith Instructions
By Garchen Rinpoche, Konchog Gyaltsen

This book offers a rare view into the heart-to-heart transmission of oral instructions on meditation from His Eminence Garchen Rinpoche at Drikung Dharma Surya Center in August of 2015. The current, 8th, Garchen Rinpoche is a Tibetan lama, a realized yogi, a skillful teacher, and the beloved Guru of many of us. He is the incarnation of a 12th Century realized yogi named Gar Chodingpa, one of the heart disciples of the famed Jigten Sumgon, Kyobpa Rinpoche—founder of the Drikung Kagyu lineage, that can be traced back to the great translator Marpa Lotsawa, and the greatest yogi of Tibet, Milarepa.

The book contains an exposition of the practices of Shamatha and Generation Stage meditations, which have the nature of relative bodhicitta, and the practices of Vipassana and Completion Stage meditations, which have the nature of absolute bodhichitta—the ultimate nature of the mind. The practices of Shamatha and Vipassana are foundations for Mahamudra, Dzogchen, and Madhyamaka.

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