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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.

$85.00

Big Love: The Life and Teachings of Lama Yeshe

Adele Hulse

This book is the official, authorized biography of Lama Yeshe. It contains personal stories of the lamas and the students who learned, lived and traveled with them. If you knew Lama, you will be reminded of his wisdom and charisma; if you did not, this is the perfect introduction. Set of two 700-page hardcover volumes in a slipcase with over 1,550 photographs, maps and other illustrations, full color throughout.

$85.00

Daily Reflections eBook

Advice from Khen Rinpoche Geshe Thubten Chonyi

These teachings offer valuable advice related to our Dharma studies and practice: how to check whether our practices are Dharma, the need for study and constant reflection on the Buddha’s teachings, and how to overcome our afflictions and problems so that we can truly benefit others.
 

The Kindness of Others eBook

Geshe Jampa Tegchok
Out of Stock: eBook and Print-on-Demand Available

In this book, Khensur Rinpoche Geshe Jampa Tegchok explains how we can train our mind away from self-cherishing, the cause of all suffering, and develop compassion, the cause of everything that is good. He bases his explanation on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa’s classic text, The Seven Point Mind Training, which, amongst other things, teaches us how to transform problems into happiness.

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
Out of Stock: eBook and free PDF Available

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.

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.