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                        DHAMMA DANA PUBLICATIONS
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  long-standing Buddhist tradition to America by making high-quality
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                        List of Titles Available
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    Thanissaro Bhikkhu, "The Mind Like Fire Unbound: An Image in the
        Early Buddhist Discourses" (November 1993; paper, 125pp)

        Early Buddhism borrowed two of its central terms from the
        workings of fire. //Upadana//, or clinging, originally referred
        to the fuel that kept fire burning; //nibbana//, the name of the
        goal, to a fire's going out. This is the first book to examine
        these terms from the perspective of how the early Buddhists
        themselves viewed fire -- what they saw happening as a fire
        burned, and what happened to the fire when it went out -- to
        show what light this perspective throws on Buddhist doctrine in
        general, and the practice of meditation in particular.

        With extensive quotations from the Pali Canon, newly translated,
        this is also a useful sourcebook for anyone who wants to
        encounter Buddhist teachings in their earliest known context.

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    Thynn, Dr. T., "Living Meditation, Living Insight" (revised edition,
        first published 1992; due April 1995; paper 120pp)

        [From the Foreword by Jack Kornfield]:  I am very impressed by
        the thoroughness and care with which Dr. Thynn Thynn explains
        the path of mindfulness in daily life in her book. This has not
        been so much emphasized so strongly in the monastic and
        meditative teachings of Buddhism that have come to take root in
        the West. In fact, much of Buddhist practice in Asia has
        followed the intensive model. But clearly, that will not work
        for those of us who are householders in the West. And anyway,
        the wonderful experiences of intensive practice often lead to
        less transformation of our lives than we might hope; so that
        after intensive meditation practice we are back again in the
        midst of our lives with the question of how to bring the Dhamma
        to bear in everyday life. I am so pleased when I see a book like
        Dr. Thynn Thynn's that speaks directly to the situation.

        I applaud her clarity and courage for teaching in the
        straightforward way that she does.

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    Upasika Kee Nanayon (K. Khao-suan-luang), "An Unentangled Knowing:
        The Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Lay Woman" (Thanissaro Bhikkhu,
        tr.; due April 1995; paper 120pp)

        This book collects between two covers over two-dozen Dhamma
        talks by the Thai forest meditation master Upasika Kee Nanayon
        (1901-1978). Translations of some of these talks appeared
        previously in small collections ("Reading the Mind" and "Looking
        Inward"), but all have been thoroughly revised for the present
        edition. Several previously-unpublished talks are also included.

        These talks capture the profound and powerful teaching style for
        which Upasika Kee was widely known and respected, among both lay
        and monastic practitioners in Asia. This fluent translation now
        brings these timeless teachings to life for the benefit of
        English-speaking Dhamma practitioners around the world.

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  (john.bullitt@metta.ci.net).

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