LAMA YESHE WISDOM ARCHIVE 2022 YEAR-END APPEAL

Dear LYWA friends and supporters.

Thank you so much for your interest in and support of our work. For the past twenty-six years we have been extremely fortunate to be doing the highly beneficial work of recording, editing and publishing the teachings of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche for the benefit of all. All of us here at LYWA rejoice in being able to partner with you to bring all of us closer to enlightenment.

As 2022 draws to a close, we again launch our year-end appeal, aiming to raise $60,000 by December 31 to help us close out the year on a positive note and get 2023 off to a great start.

Spreading the Dharma, the solution to all the world’s problems

The team at the Archive endeavor to make the Dharma accessible in as many ways as possible! So, in addition to the books in print that you all know and love, we are reaching interested seekers through our website, ebooks, video, podcasts, multimedia presentations and now free audiobooks. Our e-publishing and social media manager Megan Evart has developed and published ten of our most popular titles through Google Play and YouTube. In addition, Megan tirelessly spreads the teachings of the lamas in digital format via the LYWA podcast and the LYWA YouTube channel, and every day she reaches out to our Facebook and other social media communities of more than 140,000 subscribers with news, teachings, video and much, much more.

This year we launched the Lamrim Year Companion site, designed to help you access the daily meditations found in our very popular recent publication, Lamrim Year, from wherever you are, whether on a desktop computer or on a mobile device. The site tracks your progress, and supports additional study on each lamrim topic by emailing teachings, resource links, and inspiring quotes and images as you progress.

We continue to add new material to our website. Our web editor Sandra Smith has posted the complete transcripts of Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s teachings from two more Kopan courses. We have now posted thirty-three of the fifty-two courses given so far, and we won’t stop until we have them all freely available on our website! Sandy also regularly posts previously unpublished teachings along with new advices for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Online Advice Book. There are now nearly 2,500 of Rinpoche’s precious advices online.

Our free books continue to be in high demand, so this year we reprinted thousands of copies of some of our most popular titles: Freedom Through Understanding, The Joy of Compassion, Ego, Attachment and Liberation, and The Peaceful Stillness of the Silent Mind. Our customer service manager Venerable Ani Desal manages dozens of shipments of our free and for-sale books to individuals and centers around the world, and also looks after the LYWA membership program, which continues to grow under her expert management and is a major source of support for us.

Our next publication, a new Lama Yeshe book, titled Knowledge-Wisdom: The Peaceful Path to Liberation. Collected Teachings, Volume 1 has now gone to our printers. Compiled by Sandra Smith and edited by Uldis Balodis and me, we are expecting delivery of this title in the spring 2023.

Finally, we continue to publish our monthly e-letter, compiled by our content and communications manager Stacey Martin, which brings you news of our current activities and teachings that you would not have seen before. We have been publishing it for nearly twenty years and the e-letter archive is an amazingly detailed record of all we’ve been able to do over this period.

Preserving the Precious Archive for the Future

Our digital imaging specialists David Zinn and Francine Fagundez continue to digitize, optimize, preserve and catalogue our exceptional collection of historical images. For the past year they have been migrating this collection of tens of thousands of images to a new digital asset management system, AssetBank, which we share with the FPMT.

Also in the past year our IT and finance director Jen Barlow, assisted by Stacey Martin, has been migrating our video, audio and transcript collection—more than 30,000 digital files—into AssetBank. This new system will ensure that the entire Archive collection, along with all the precious digital assets of the FPMT, can be safely preserved and easily managed for many years into the future. We expect to have the Archive’s collection completely migrated by March 2023.

Thank you!

It is only through your kind and generous support that we have been able to do all this beneficial work for the sake of all sentient beings. Please donate and help us make our year-end appeal a success.

Much love,

Nick Ribush
Director

You can donate directly on www.LamaYeshe.com, or send a check to this postal address. Thank you!

LAMA YESHE WISDOM ARCHIVE 2021 YEAR-END APPEAL

Thank you so much for your interest in and support of our work. We are extremely fortunate to be able to do something highly beneficial for all sentient beings and ourselves by dedicating our time and resources to the spread of Dharma, the actual solution to all the world’s problems. Thank you again for your contributions that allow those of us here at LYWA to work in partnership with you to bring all of us closer to enlightenment.

As 2021 draws to a close, we again launch our year-end appeal, aiming to raise $50,000 by December 31 to help us close out the year on a positive note and get 2022 off to a great start.

Our work continues

This year we have published two new free books, Lamrim Year and The Nectar of Bodhicitta, in print and electronic formats. If you have not yet received a copy, please let us know!

Next up will be an expanded print version in one volume of our three Lama Yeshe ebooks, The Enlightened Experience, a collection of about seventy short (and not so short) teachings by Lama. We’re very excited to be bringing you this amazing compilation next spring!

In addition to these books, we continue to add new material to our website. Each month our web editor Sandra Smith uploads previously unpublished teachings and new advices for Lama Zopa Rinpoche’s Online Advice Book. There are now more than 2,300 of Rinpoche’s precious advices online. Sandy also keeps our online glossary of Buddhist terms up to date.

And did you know we have established an auxiliary website called “Teachings from Tibet,” featuring the teachings of exceptional Tibetan lamas such as HH Ling Rinpoche, HH Trijang Rinpoche, HH Serkong Rinpoche, HH Zong Rinpoche, Khunu Lama Rinpoche, Geshe Sopa Rinpoche, Geshe Rabten Rinpoche, Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey and many others? Check it out!

Our publications continue to be in high demand. Every month Venerable Ani Desal manages dozens of shipments of our free and for-sale books to individuals and centers around the world and also looks after the LYWA membership program, which continues to grow under her expert management and is a major source of support for us. In addition, she manages our team of transcribers, who continue to produce new transcripts for editing and publication.

Our e-publishing and social media manager Megan Evart tirelessly spreads the teachings of the lamas in digital format via the LYWA podcast and the LYWA YouTube channel, and every day she reaches out to our social media communities of more than 140,000 subscribers with news, teachings, video and much, much more. She also continues to add to our ebook and audiobook catalog and to design multimedia offerings that bring together transcripts, audio, video and images into beautiful, inspiring Dharma presentations.

Finally, every month we publish an e-letter, compiled by our content and communications manager Stacey Martin, which brings you news of our current activities and teachings that you would not have seen before. We have been publishing it for nearly twenty years and the e-letter archive is an amazingly detailed record of all we’ve been able to do over this period.

Preserving the Precious Archive for the Future

Our digital imaging specialists David Zinn and Francine Fagundez continue to digitize, optimize, preserve and catalogue our exceptional collection of historical images. For the past year they have been migrating this collection of tens of thousands of images to a new digital asset management system, AssetBank, which we share with the FPMT.

Also in the past year our IT and finance director Jen Barlow, assisted by Stacey Martin, has been migrating our video, audio and transcript collection—more than 30,000 digital files—into AssetBank. This new system will ensure that the entire Archive collection along with all the precious digital assets generated by the FPMT’s education and other departments can be safely preserved and easily managed for many years into the future. You can learn more about the AssetBank project here on our website.

We are very grateful to have been awarded a grant from the Italian Buddhist Union, received in partnership with our friends at FPMT Italia, to fund this critically important project. The grant covers 70% of our annual project budget, so donations to our year-end appeal will help to fully fund this project.

Give the Gift of Big Love

Last year we published Big Love: The Life and Teachings of Lama Yeshe, the official, authorized biography of Lama Yeshe. The two-volume set contains personal stories of the lamas and the students who learned, lived and traveled with them, excerpts from teachings, and more than 1,500 photos dating back to the 1960s. This immense project has made a significant contribution to preserving the history of Tibetan Buddhism in the West.

In gratitude for your support of our work, we are making a special offering to donors of our year-end appeal:

• If you contribute $125 or more to our year-end appeal, we will send you or any person or center you designate a copy of the sensational Big Love: The Life and Teachings of Lama Yeshe.
• If you would simply like to buy a copy of Big Love, from now until the end of January 2022 we are offering it for only $48 plus shipping and handling. That’s a $37 discount!

It is only through your kind and generous support that we have been able to do all this beneficial work for the sake of all sentient beings. Please help us make our year-end appeal a success by making your year-end donation here.

Please note: this special year-end offer to donors has now closed.

Thank you so much,

Big love,

Nick Ribush
Director