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All LYWA print books, except Big Love, are free, with postage charged at checkout. To help keep your shipping costs low, we encourage ordering multiple books at once. You can also read our books online, listen to audiobooks, purchase ebooks, download free PDFs or order select print-on-demand titles. We now offer free book shipments to FPMT centers, study groups and services. You can download our catalog here.

Perfect Mirror eBook

Reflections on Truth and Illusion
Ven. Thubten Gyatso (Adrian Feldmann)

While in Mongolia, Venerable Gyatso wrote this wonderful series of short essays exploring topics such as anger, desire, loneliness and freedom, through the clarifying lens of his own personal experience.

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A Leaf in the Wind Book

A Life's Journey
Ven. Thubten Gyatso (Adrian Feldmann)

On the eve of his three-year solitary retreat, Adrian Feldmann (Ven. Thubten Gyatso) recounts the inner and outer journey that led him to become a Buddhist monk. He gives a humorous account of his search for happiness.

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The World and Ourselves eBook

Buddhist Psychology
Ven. Thubten Gyatso (Adrian Feldmann)

This book presents the classic framework of Buddhist mind and mental factors, explains how they operate, offers insightful commentary based on personal experience and explores how Western psychological concepts such as the super-ego can work with Buddhist psychological concepts.

A Commentary on Praises to the Twenty-one Taras eBook

Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup Rigsel
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This precious commentary by Khensur Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup Rigsel offers us a deeper understanding of the inconceivable qualities of Tara's holy body, speech and mind and how her different aspects can help us overcome difficulties in our daily lives and Dharma practice.

Kadampa Teachings eBook

Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to practice Dharma the way the famous Kadampa geshes did. These lamas were exemplary practitioners of Buddhism in Tibet, renowned for their extreme asceticism and uncompromising practice of thought transformation. Rinpoche, an exemplar of these practices himself, bases his teachings on Lama Atisha’s wonderful text, The Bodhisattva’s Jewel Garland.

Making Life Meaningful eBook

Lama Zopa Rinpoche

In this book, Lama Zopa Rinpoche gives us the answer to the perennial question of how to integrate Dharma with our daily lives. It contains a public talk explaining the purpose of life in general and the practice of guru devotion, a wide array of techniques for transforming ordinary actions into causes for enlightenment and advice on establishing a daily practice. 

Teachings from the Mani Retreat eBook

Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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"We are unbelievably fortunate to have met the Dharma and to have the opportunity to do recitation and meditation on the Compassion Buddha. It is an easy way of purifying whatever negative karma we have collected in not only this life but in many previous lives as well."  - Lama Zopa Rinpoche. 

Bodhisattva Attitude eBook

How to Dedicate Your Life to Others
Lama Zopa Rinpoche

This book comprises several motivations taught by Lama Zopa Rinpoche called “bodhicitta motivations for life,” intended for us to use first thing every morning to generate the mind of bodhicitta and dedicate our life to numberless sentient beings. 

Advice for Monks and Nuns eBook

Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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In these talks, Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche explain the great benefits of practicing Dharma as an ordained person, how to keep the ordination pure, the purpose of the monastic community, how to live together as monks and nuns, and much more.