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Washington D.C. — April 29, 2008 — November 4, 2008 is the much anticipated date for the US DVD release of Neten Chokling’s MILAREPA and the companion documentary to the feature film TEACHINGS ON MILAREPA.

Both titles will be brought to the US audiences under the Cinequest Label, a leader in innovative distribution technology, utilizing groundbreaking Internet platforms in concert with, traditional methods of DVD distribution distribution to great success.

MILAREPA enters a stellar line up of top quality films at Cinequest, which includes Oscar®, Emmy® and major festival award winners and nominees.

For the mind that masters view the emptiness dawns
In the content seen not even an atom exists
A seer and seen refined until they're gone
This way of realizing view, it works quite well

When meditation is clear light river flow
There is no need to confine it to sessions and breaks
Meditator and object refined until they're gone
This heart bone of meditation, it beats quite well

When you're sure that conduct's work is luminous light
And you're sure that interdependence is emptiness
A doer and deed refined until they're gone
This way of working with conduct, it works quite well

When biased thinking has vanished into space
No phony facades, eight dharmas, nor hopes and fears,
A keeper and kept refined until they're gone
This way of keeping samaya, it works quite well

As we have traveled the country with Milarepa we have continued to be amazed by outpouring of support from people in the audience who have been touched by Milarepa's message and want to help us make this film a success. We have been relying on your help to get the word out about Milarepa on blogs, and social networking sites like Facebook and My Space, and now we want to let you know about another easy way that you can help out Milarepa. Please add us to your Netflix request list, and let all of your friends on Netflix know that they should do the same. This will let Netflix know that there is a demand for them to carry the Milarepa DVD and help ensure that the story of Milarepa can reach more people.

Friday, October 12, 2007; Page WE32

Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint," a picturesque fable filmed in the mountains of northern India, shows us how most -- if not all -- roads to spiritual enlightenment are paved with suffering.

Set in the 11th century, this Tibetan film retells the story of Thopaga, an impoverished villager who would eventually became the enlightened Milarepa, one of Tibet's most revered saints. But his path to bliss followed a traumatic chapter marked with tragedy, injustice, vengeful sorcery and the destruction of his village.

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-- Desson Thomson