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Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye

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For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva (Shambhala Classics) by Dalai Lama XIV

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