DDSC temple houses a separate boutique gift shop for the purpose of providing study and ritual materials for Buddhist practitioners as well as for any gift occasion.

The shop offers many unique Buddhist ritual items from Nepal and India, to include an eclectic selection of Buddhist books, scriptures, teaching texts, commentaries, audio CD/video, paintings, variety of Buddha statues, mandala, stupas, hand-held prayerwheel, variety of incense, sur offering substance/powder, prayer flags, variety of malas, lamps, ritual instruments including dorje & bell, Chöd damaru & bone flute Kanglin, cymbals, incense burner, offering bowl, thangkas, katas, T-shirts, clothing, accessories, blankets, and many other unique treasures.

All items in our gift shop have been personally blessed by H.E. Garchen Rinpoche!  

Moreover, located in the lower level of the temple, DDSC temple also offers a Shravasti library of BuddhaDharma resources of different languages (such as Tibetan, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, Japanese, English) for borrow and check-out, to include Buddhist books, scriptures, teachings, commentaries, as well as Tibet’s ancient traditions of art, cultural artifacts, gallery and archives.

For better service, the Bookstore is open by appointment.  

Special Consecrated Stupa (Limited Quantity Available)

SUGGESTED DONATION: $150  

(The proceeds from these Crystal Stupas currently placed in the Temple Shrine Hall Altar will go to the Center’s Building and Center’s Operations Fund. Any additional contribution beyond the suggested donation is sincerely appreciated.)

These consecrated stupas are blessed by His Holiness the 37th Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang during Avalokiteshvara Empowerment on the Full Moon 24 February 2024, known as Chötrul Düchen, “Great Day Of Miraculous Manifestations”, as well as by the 8th Most Venerable Arjia Rinpoche during New Year Green Tara Blessings on 25 February 2024, with participating many monastics sangha at DDSC temple.

The Crystal Stupas have been carefully prepared, sealed and consecrated through extensive prayers and empowerment rituals to invoke the blessings of all the manifestations of the Buddhas and yidam deities and the vitality of the elements. This crystal stupa is a sacred repository of consecrated substances, including sacred relics and pills, precious ritual and healing substances, and rare elements as well as a collection of all Buddhas/deities mantras.

Each Crystal Stupa contains a small amount of perhaps the most unique, invaluable treasury of relics and holy substances ever put together in one place, as follows:

• Sacred heart relics of Lord Jigten Sumgon, the founder of the Drikung Kagyu lineage – thought of as the second Buddha
• Sacred relics founded in Tara statue built by Tibetan King Songtsän Gampo in the 6th century – regarded as an embodiment of the Compassion Buddha, Avalokitesvara
• Special blessed dharma pills (of over 800 years-old) from Drikung Kagyu lineage
• Sacred blessing pills of liberation – the renowned Dzogchen master Dza Patrul Rinpoche of Nyingmapa lineage made these pills from sacred Terma relics brought to Tibet by Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), Marpa the Translator, and other great masters.
• Collection of various precious elements from sacred holy places all over the world
• Rare medicine and blessed healing substances
• Precious stones, earth and other substances
• Blessed leaves of the revered 2000 year-old Tule Tree in Mexico as symbol of Longevity
• Mantras of Buddha/yidam deity with a collection of all Buddhas mantras. Those Buddhas/deities include Buddha Sakyamuni, Buddha Amitabha, Buddha Amitayus, Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche), Medicine Buddha, Avalokitesvara, Manjushri, Vajrasattva, Vajrapani, Green Tara, White Tara, Dzambhala, Mahakala, and Mantra of Interdependent of Origination.

Anyone who makes connection to the stupa – through seeing, touching or honoring it – receives the blessings of enlightened mind as well as the fulfillment of short-term goals for oneself and those to whom ones’ merit is dedicated, including spiritual and physical well-being (health and long life), prosperity, peace and harmony.

This crystal stupa provides a means for averting all that is inauspicious, subdues negative energy and obstacles, wards off the causes of strife, assures all that is auspicious and supportive of spiritual development ((improving spiritual practice & virtuous activities) and enlightenment ultimately, and contributes to the positive energy of the world.