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Tibetan Treasures at http://www.tibetantreasures.com specializes in high-quality items suitable for furnishing an altar or otherwise facilitating meditation. There are books and audiotapes from the teachings of H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche and other well known teachers from his lineage. The serious practitioner especially will find much of value here.

http://www.snowlionpub.com/ is already listed in my Links. This is possibly the largest source of all, especially for books, and what practitioner ever has enough books? Their online store includes videos, audio tapes of teachings, thangkas, other religious items, books, books, books. Maps of Tibet and of Lhasa, jewelry, too much to list here.

Snow Lion also sends out a print newsletter. The current issue, Fall 2001, includes an article: Snow Lion: The House that Roared by Franklin Crawford. This article demonstrates the seminal role Snow Lion played in bringing Tibetan culture and knowledge to the West. Here Crawford quotes noted scholar Jeffrey Hopkins:

Snow Lion is seminal -- they are crucial in the development of the field of Tibetan studies and to furthering the public's interest in Tibet....Snow Lion is the pioneer house in this field.

http://www.savetibet.org/is primarily a political site. But they have a store. Their calendars, books and maps are mostly guides to Tibet and not books of spiritual instruction. There are two videos offered, both very inexpensive: $20 for The Shadow Circus: The CIA in Tibet and Number 16 Barkhor South Street which are portraits in film of modern Tibetans for$25. These are political videos possibly not available anywhere else.

http://www.snowcrest.net/chagdud/, Chagdud Gonpa Online, features Tibetan Treasures, a source for books featuring the teachings of Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche. Your purchases support the Chagdud Gonpa organization which promulgates the teachings of Vajrayana Buddhism.It features few-of-a-kind and one-of-a-kind items: t'hangkas, statues, malas, and other practice items; additional books, tapes, cards, and lama photos; and new and short-term sale items.

http://www.kalachakra-graz.at. This is the URL for all information regarding the Kalachakra for World Peace which will be performed in Graz, Austria in October, 2002. Four thousand people have already signed up. They have an online store where one can purchase books, booklets and other items relating to this event. The Kalachakra is a complicated initiation requiring previous study; some of the books are available here.

May your shopping be meaningful. We will bring you more sources as we find them.

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