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.
Begin with our "Starter Pack", a selection of four of our most popular titles:
Lamrim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 3rd & 4th Kopan Meditation Courses, held at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in October-November 1972 and March-April, 1973.
Rinpoche’s Animal Friends features more than one hundred images of soft toys, known as plushies, which were decorated and blessed by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. The toys are inscribed with profound messages and powerful mantras, and are a reminder of Rinpoche’s great love for us and his unique means to inspire and open our hearts.
Lamrim Year is a unique study program which provides a 365-day outline of the graduated path to enlightenment in a clear, practical format that is suitable for both individual and group practice. A free Lamrim Year Companion website is also available, making it easy for you to engage with the daily meditations in both text and audio formats on any device.
This book presents Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings on bodhicitta, the mind of enlightenment, based on verses from inspiring texts by Khunu Lama Rinpoche and Shantideva.
This five-book set is designed for students seeking to deepen their understanding and practice. The Study Pack includes:
• The Perfect Human Rebirth,by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Daily Purification: A Short Vajrasatttva Practice,by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Abiding in the Retreat,by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• How Things Exist, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
• Life, Death and After Death by Lama Yeshe
This book deals with the eight worldly dharmas, essentially, how craving desire and attachment cause us to create problems and suffering and how to abandon these negative minds in order to find perfect peace and happiness.
A remarkable series of powerful and clear Dharma teachings given by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche to students in Leeds and London, United Kingdom, in 2014. In this book, Rinpoche explains how to take care of our mind, gives profound teachings on the Buddhist philosophy of emptiness and discusses the need for ethics and a solid refuge.
Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches on the lamrim, the stages of the path to enlightenment, however, his main emphasis during this meditation course is on emptiness, which he teaches in great depth and with great clarity.
This book presents Lama Zopa Rinpoche's advice to prison inmates drawn from more than 100 letters he has written to prisoners over the years. It has been skillfully edited into a coherent whole emphasizing essential lamrim topics by Ven. Robina Courtin.
