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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.

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The Peaceful Stillness of the Silent Mind Book

Buddhism, Mind and Meditation
Lama Thubten Yeshe
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The six teachings contained herein come from Lama Yeshe’s 1975 visit to Australia. The first three are a series of consecutive evening lectures Lama gave at Melbourne University, and the last three teachings are public lectures given in Sydney. They are all filled with love, insight, wisdom and compassion, and the question-and-answer sessions Lama loved so much are as dynamic and informative as ever.

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Universal Love Book

The Yoga Method of Buddha Maitreya
Lama Thubten Yeshe
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By pulling together some of Lama Yeshe’s introductory teachings on Buddhism, meditation, compassion and emptiness, and combining them with the definitive explanation of tantra, this one valuable volume will inspire students to go more deeply into the Yoga Method of Buddha Maitreya, a tantric practice.

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Silent Mind Holy Mind Book

A Tibetan Lama’s Reflections on Christmas
Lama Thubten Yeshe
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The celebration of Christmas focuses on our longing for peace and deepest expression of love. Its essential spirit, therefore, appeals not only to Christians but to all people. Taking as his major focus the ways in which we customarily celebrate Christmas, Lama Yeshe exposes the foibles of our secular age and shows how we can surmount them.

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Life, Death and After Death Book

Lama Thubten Yeshe
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"Tibetan Buddhism teaches us to understand the death process and trains us to deal with it so that when the time of crisis arrives and the various illusory visions arise, instead of being confused, we’ll know what’s going on and will recognize illusions as illusions, projections as projections and fantasies as fantasies." – Lama Yeshe.

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The Joy of Compassion Book

Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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In this book, Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches on one of his favorite topics—compassion. He tells us that compassion for others is the best way to overcome any obstacles we encounter, in our Dharma practice, or occupation and life itself, and the best medicine for treating any illness we experience. Rinpoche also explains emptiness, karma and many other essential Buddhist subjects.

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The Heart of the Path Book

Seeing the Guru as Buddha
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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In this book, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the importance of the spiritual teacher and advises how to train the mind in guru devotion, the root of the path to enlightenment.

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Virtue and Reality Book

Method and Wisdom in the Practice of Dharma
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Virtue and Reality contains methods for transforming everyday actions into the cause of enlightenment, anger into patience, and the ordinary view of phenomena as inherently existent into the wisdom realizing emptiness. It also includes several meditations led by Rinpoche, although everything in the book is a topic for meditation.

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Teachings from the Vajrasattva Retreat eBook

Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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This is an edited transcript of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings at a three-month Vajrasattva retreat held at Land of Medicine Buddha in 1999. The teachings cover many lamrim topics, purification practices, mantras, pujas and more.

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How Things Exist Book

Teachings on Emptiness
Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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In this small book Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of compassion and universal responsibility and how to make life meaningful, then gives a brief explanation of the nature of the enlightened mind and how we can attain it, and finally offers an extensive explanation of emptiness, the ultimate nature of reality.

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The Perfect Human Rebirth Book

Freedom and Richness on the Path to Enlightenment
Lama Zopa Rinpoche

In this book, Rinpoche explains in the greatest possible detail just how precious our perfect human rebirth is and why we should not waste a moment of it.

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