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A Benefactor is "one who does good." Your donation enables the Archive to continue in our work of preserving, editing and publishing the teachings of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, and other great teachers of our time.
You donation of $25 or more will make you a Benefactor of the Archive. [Note that beginning in February 2008 we've increased the minimum Benefactor donation in response to increased postage costs, particularly for packages sent overseas.] As a Benefactor, you will automatically receive our new free publications for one year. To receive other books prepared for publication by the Archive, and to support our Preserving the Lineage project, consider becoming a Member of the Archive with your donation or pledge of $1,000.
The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive is a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible, non-profit corporation dedicated to the welfare of all sentient beings and totally dependent upon your donations for its continued existence. The Archive was established with virtually no seed funding and has developed solely through the kindness of our many supporters.
Our further development similarly depends upon the generosity of those who see the benefit and necessity of this work, and we would be extremely grateful for your help. The Archive Trust has been established to fund our work and we hereby appeal to you for your kind support.
Dear Friend of the LYWA,
I hope you are well. Thank you so much for your interest in and support of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. Our ability to make Dharma teachings freely available to people all over the world—through either our publications or our Web site—is totally dependent upon your kindness and we thank you for it.
As the world becomes increasingly wracked by violence and plagued by one suffering after another, those of us who have been blessed by the wisdom of the Buddha can grow only more convinced that the only way out of this mess is for each of us to learn to control our mind. However, we need to be taught how to do this. Since most of us don't have ready access to a teacher, the best way to bring the Buddha's incomparable methods of mental development to the greatest number of people is through books, and, in recent years, the Internet. As Lama Zopa Rinpoche has said,
Dharma books plant seeds of the path to enlightenment in the mind of the reader. Those imprints actualize, realizations come, and liberation is attained. Books open the wisdom eye; you can understand death and the nature of the mind; they teach you how to develop compassion; they bring world peace.
The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive publishes authentic Dharma books. When you read and practice them, you can understand karma, how everything comes from the mind, that the external cause is not the only one. This can lead you to a happy death and a happy rebirth.
Book sponsors offer all the above benefits to others; they cause them to open their minds. Each person transformed brings peace into the world. It becomes an extremely practical thing.
Sponsoring books is for people who like to spread Dharma. If you organize a meditation course, only a few people get to hear the teachings, whereas if you publish a book, you can help thousands more. Books reach every corner of the earth.
Until you change your mind—no matter how well off you are—you still make mistakes in your actions. To stop your own suffering, you have to stop creating negative actions; to stop creating negative actions, you have to stop your negative mind. Books tell you how to do that.
An additional benefit of Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive books is that they are offered free of charge and thereby reach many people who might not otherwise have a chance to contact the Dharma. Also, contributing to or distributing Archive books becomes charity of Dharma, the highest form of giving. Moreover, by donating money to the Archive you accomplish material charity; and since the Dharma teachings in these books teach readers how to protect themselves from suffering, you also accomplish the charity of saving others from fear. Thus, by the one action, you achieve all three forms of giving, and if on top of that, you give with bodhicitta, the determination to attain enlightenment for the sake of all sentient beings, your donation becomes the cause of enlightenment.
Therefore, I would be grateful if you could make a general donation to or become a member of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive. Thank you so much.
And that, I think, pretty much says it all. We are so grateful to Lama Zopa Rinpoche for his encouragement.
As to specifics, here are some of the things we’re working on for the benefit of others:
Our latest free book of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings is titled How Things Exist: Teachings on Emptiness, and we have also reprinted his classic Making Life Meaningful. Our latest book of Lama Yeshe's teachings is titled Universal Love: The Yoga Method of Buddha Maitreya; the retail price in $15, but we are making it available to Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive customers for $10.
Our latest DVD offerings are Lama Yeshe's Offering Tsok to Heruka Vajrasattva and Anxiety in the Nuclear Age. These will add to the DVDs we already have available: Lama Yeshe’s Three Principal Aspects of the Path and Introduction to Tantra.
We are working on an incredible new book to be publishing later in 2008, Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Heart of the Path, a compilation of more than three decades’ teachings on guru devotion. Then there are two seminars—coincidentally the first and last teachings Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave together in Europe—one in London in 1975, the other in Geneva in 1983: both will be made available as free books and on DVD.
We are constantly making more and more teachings available on-line. We are continually adding to Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book, and our Online Audio Recordings collection has at least one new addition each month.
We launched our membership plan in 2003 in order to raise the funds we need to employ editors to prepare most of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings in the Archive for publication. A membership costs $1,000 and can be paid all at once or over time. Please see our Membership pages for more information. We thank most sincerely all those who have already joined up and encourage others to please do so. Please ask us for our booklet containing all the details of the LYWA membership plan, or read it in full online.
If a membership is not possible, we invite you to become a benefactor of the Archive with your donation of $25 or more over the costs of shipping and handling. As a benefactor, you will automatically receive our new free publications for one year.
Of course, if you subscribe to our monthly e-letter, you know most of all this. Basically, if you sign up, each month we’ll send you a short, previously-unpublished teaching by Lama Yeshe or Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
We are completely out of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Virtue & Reality, Teachings From the Mani Retreat, and Teachings from the Vajrasattva Retreat. Please contact us if you would like to sponsor a book. As Rinpoche has explained, sponsoring the publication of free books brings many benefits, as you are helping to reach people who might not otherwise have a chance to contact the Dharma.
Thank you so much for your support and please let us know if we can do anything for you.
Much love,
Nick Ribush
Director
Some of our books have been sponsored by benefactors in memory of deceased relatives and friends. Click here to see an example of a dedication page, which appeared in our last reprint of Becoming Your Own Therapist..
Lama Zopa Rinpoche has explained that sponsoring the publication of Dharma teachings in memory of deceased relatives and friends was very common in Tibet and is of great benefit.
Books, especially those offered free of charge, reach many people who might not otherwise have a chance to contact the Dharma. When you contribute to LYWA books, you create the charity of Dharma, the highest form of giving. Moreover, when you donate money to the Archive, you accomplish material charity; and since the Dharma teachings in these books show readers how to protect themselves from suffering, you also accomplish the charity of saving others from fear. Thus, by one action—supporting the Archive—you achieve all three forms of generosity. If, on top of that, you give with bodhicitta—the determination to attain buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings—your donation becomes the cause of enlightenment.
By sponsoring books in this way, you create great merit. Because of the close karmic connection, when you dedicate this merit to your deceased relatives and friends, it can benefit them by helping ripen virtuous seeds in their mental continuum.
Therefore, the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive encourages others to make books of teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche available for free distribution in this way. Your donation of US$7,500 can sponsor a reprint of one of our popular booklets. Please e-mail Nick for more information. Thank you so much.
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Through the merit of having contributed to the spread of the Buddhist teachings for the sake of all sentient beings, may our benefactors and their families and friends have long and healthy lives, all happiness, and may all their Dharma wishes be instantly fulfilled.
Our Benefactors
Our Benefactors list includes anyone who has given $20 or more in the past year, or since we last sent out one of our free publications to our Benefactors, whichever is longer. Join this list of nearly 700 kindhearted Benefactors with your donation today. [Please note that beginning February 2008 the minimum donation for Benefactors is $25 due to increasing postage costs.]
This list contains donors who have given $20 or more since November 8, 2006. Donors who give more than $100 are benefactors for multiple years; please ask us for details. This list includes donations received through February 7, 2008.
The list does not include our Members, who are listed separately here.
We are so grateful to all our contributors, large and small, who make the work of the Archive possible. Through the merit of having contributed to the spread of the Buddhist teachings for the sake of all sentient beings, may our benefactors and their families and friends have long and healthy lives, all happiness, and may all their Dharma wishes be instantly fulfilled.
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