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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.

The Path to Ultimate Happiness eBook

Lamrim Teachings from Kopan 2009
Lama Zopa Rinpoche

In these teachings Lama Zopa Rinpoche discusses our potential to bring benefit and happiness, including full enlightenment, to all sentient beings. This ebook conveys the spontaneous and intimate quality of Rinpoche's teaching style, as he encourages us to practice Dharma so that our life becomes most beneficial and useful to others.

The Yoga of Offering Food eBook

Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Out of print: Ebook or PDF available

All the things we do can become very powerful methods for quickly achieving enlightenment. As we purify ourselves and collect extensive merit, we bring ourselves closer to enlightenment every minute of every day. Through the Mahayana practice of offering the food we eat, our lives become most beneficial, not only for ourselves but for all sentient beings.

The Direct and Unmistaken Method

THE PRACTICE AND BENEFITS OF THE EIGHT MAHAYANA PRECEPTS
Commentaries by Trijang Dorje Chang & Geshe Lamrimpa
Compiled and translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
OUT OF PRINT: read online or download a PDF

This book is a practical guide to the eight Mahayana precepts. It explains the benefits of the vows and the meaning of the ceremony for receiving them, and for easy reference contains the ceremony itself, written out clearly for regular use.

Urban Meditation Skills eBook

How to be a Happy Meditator
Ven. Fedor Stracke

Success in meditation is often elusive, even for those of us that have meditated for a long time. This book contains useful tips for meditation practice and helps us bring the Dharma happily into the modern world.

Mirror of Wisdom

Teachings on Emptiness
Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen
OUT OF PRINT: READ ONLINE OR DOWNLOAD A PDF

In this book, Geshe Gyeltsen helps us establish a correct view of emptiness, the ultimate mode of being of all phenomena. Basing his explanation of emptiness on the Heart Sutra  and the emptiness section of Mind Training Like the Rays of the Sun, Geshe-la helps us cut through our inability to see reality and sets us firmly on the path to liberation and enlightenment.