Latest News
Read excerpts from the forthcoming biography of Lama Yeshe, Big Love.
Latest New Title: Lama Zopa Rinpoche's The Heart of the Path: Seeing the Guru as Buddha.
View a pdf of the slide show that Director Nick Ribush gave at a recent conference on the state of the LYWA.
New Lama Yeshe DVDs: Bringing Dharma to the West and Lama Yeshe at Disneyland. You can also view excerpts of these videos online.
Now Playing! Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings from Taiwan in 2007 titled Guru Shakyamuni Buddha's Kindness.
New Editions of Classic Titles: Lama Yeshe's The Essence of Tibetan Buddhism and Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Virtue and Reality.
Order high quality Lama Yeshe portraits.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book continues to grow. We now have over 500 advices posted!
To order our books and DVDs, visit our shopping cart. Most of our books are free, though we do ask you to cover the costs of shipping.
As of 6/15/09:
Listen to teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche given before the Mitrugpa Initiation in Taiwan 2007. You can also listen to the earliest recording of Lama Yeshe in our Archive, from 1972.
As of 5/15/09:
Listen to Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings from a Maitreya Retreat at Root Institute from 2006, and 8 days of teachings also from Root Institute in December 2003.
As of 3/15/09:
Latest New Titles: Lama Yeshe's Universal Love: The Yoga Method of Buddha Maitreya; Lama Zopa Rinpoche's How Things Exist: Teachings on Emptiness.
Now Playing! Teachings from Lama Zopa Rinpoche's recent visit to Guadalajara Mexico: a public talk, and 8 days of teachings on the lam-rim. Also, Rinpoche's teachings on the Eight Verses from 2003.
As of 10/15/08:
Welcome to our new website! We hope you enjoy the updated design. Read about our new features and improvements below.
New Website Features and Improvements
Welcome to our new website! For those of you familiar with our previous site, all of the teachings and resources that were on our site before have been converted to this new format. If you are new to our site, we hope you will enjoy exploring what our site has to offer.
Read Teachings Online
The new website design is clear, spacious and easy to navigate. We hope you find reading teachings online easy on the eyes. You can also create a PDF or generate a printer friendly version of any teaching by using the links at the top of each page.
All teachings and articles have been assigned to a category, a listing of which you can access from the Teachings menu above. The category represents the main topic addressed in the teaching.
Additionally, teachings are assigned tags, which indicate that a topic is discussed somewhere within the article, although it is not the main topic. Tags are displayed on the right-hand side of each teaching page; click on any tag to see a list of teachings which also have that tag.
Listen to Teachings Online
All of our audio recordings have also been assigned categories and tags; pull down the Audio menu above to see our offerings. Teachings that have associated audio will have “Listen Online” and “Download” links near the upper-right of the page. Clicking on the “Listen Online” link will launch a new audio player which is designed to run on any machine.
E-mail Alerts
Want to know right away when we publish a new teaching by a particular teacher, or that addresses a particular topic? Then sign up to receive Email Alerts when new teachings are added that interest you. The Email Alerts link can be found at the bottom of every page on our site.
Shopping Cart Upgrades
When you place an order you can create an account which will store your name and address, so on subsequent visits you won’t need to retype your contact information. You can also view your order history and track your orders online.
There are new payment options available. In addition to being able to conduct a secure transaction on your credit card through our online payment processor Authorize.net, you can also pay using your Paypal account, or have your card number securely sent to our office for manual processing. Coming soon: Paypal Express Checkout.
Customers in the US and a number of other countries now have more shipping choices. You will be presented with your choices when checking out. (Note the customers in the UK, Europe and Australia will still have their orders sent by our distributors in those countries.)
Improved Search Capabilities
Our website’s search function has been improved so that results are ranked based upon where the search phrase appears in the teaching.
We hope you enjoy your visit to our website and that you are able to easily find whatever you are looking for. We welcome any feedback about our site; just send an email to jen@LamaYeshe.com.
As of 9/1/08:
Listen online to Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Mahamudra and Medicine Buddha teachings from Crestone CO, USA this past June 2008.
Listen online to Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Sanghata Sutra commentary and lung from Taiwan in 2007, and teachings from Vajrayana Institute in 2006.
As of 4/1/08:
We've just published Lama Yeshe's Universal Love: The Yoga Method of Buddha Maitreya; Lama Zopa Rinpoche's How Things Exist: Teachings on Emptiness; and a newly-designed reprint of Rinpoche's Making Life Meaningful.
Listen online to Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaching on the Three Principal Aspects of the Path at Vajrapani Institute in Boulder Creek, CA in 2006.
As of 1/1/08:
Read Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Prayer for the Swift Return of Geshe Jampa Gyatso.
Listen online to Lama Zopa Rinpoche giving commentary and a partial oral transmission of the Golden Light Sutra in Portland OR in November 2007.
As of 12/1/07:
Just Redesigned and Reprinted! Lama Yeshe's ever-popular Becoming Your Own Therapist / Make Your Mind an Ocean combined edition.
Listen online to Lama Zopa Rinpoche giving commentary and a partial oral transmission of the Golden Light Sutra in New York City in September 2007. You can also listen to Rinpoche chanting the names of Manjushri (Manjushri-nama-samgiti).
Read Chinese translations of teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Ganden Lha Gyäma Commentary (Just Added!), Perfect Freedom: The Great Value of Being Human and Burning Offering to Dorje Khadro.
As of 9/1/07:
You can listen to the first seven chapters of Lama Yeshe's book Ego, Attachment and Liberation.
Read Lama Yeshe's teaching from September 1983 titled How to Let Go: Integrating Emptiness in Everyday Life. You can also read Geshe Soepa's texts on animal rights: The Udamwara Lotus Flower: Protecting the Life of Helpless Beings.
As of 5/1/07:
Another Lama Yeshe DVD! Our newest offering is Anxiety in the Nuclear Age, containing two talks on this topic given in California in July of 1983. It's $15, and you can visit our online store to order your copy.
We have just posted the complete series of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings in Barcelona, Spain from September 2005. Listen online and follow along with the unedited transcripts. Includes a partial transmission of the Golden Light Sutra.
As of 3/1/07:
We've just released Offering Tsok to Heruka Vajrasattava, containing teachings from 1983, audio of Lama leading the puja, and a slide show of photos. It's $25 for a two-DVD set. Visit our online store to order your copy.
New in our Members' Area: Lama Zopa Rinpoche's lectures from the 17th Kopan Meditation course, November 1984.
As of 2/1/07:
New in our Members' Area: Lama Zopa Rinpoche's lectures from the 14th Kopan Meditation course, November 1981. We have also just posted Rinpoche's teachings from the 11th course.
As of 1/1/07:
Our newest Lama Yeshe Book is in! Ego, Attachment and Liberation contains the teachings and meditations Lama Yeshe gave at a five-day retreat he led near Melbourne, Australia in 1975.
Listen online to Lama Yeshe giving the talk titled Make Your Mind an Ocean from March 1975. Also, a Romanian translation of Lama Yeshe's Becoming Your Own Therapist is now available.
Read Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teaching on How to Make Offerings in Front of Holy Objects. Rinpoche gave this explanation as he walked through his house in Aptos which is filled with Buddha statues and images.
