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tion in certain purification practices.
virtue. Positive karma; that which results in happiness. See also merit.
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glossary
wind disease (Tib: lung). The state in which the wind element within the body
is unbalanced.
wisdom. All aspects of the path to enlightenment associated with the devel-
opment of the realization of emptiness.
Yeshe, Lama (1935 1984). Born and educated in Tibet, he fled the Chinese
occupation in 1959 and continued his study and practice in India, where he
met his chief disciple, Lama Zopa Rinpoche. They began teaching Western-
ers at Kopan Monastery in 1974 and founded the Foundation for the Preser-
vation of the Mahayana Tradition in 1975.
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA) is the collected works of
Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. The Archive
was founded in 1996 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, its spiritual director, to make
available in various ways the teachings it contains. Publication of books of
edited teachings for free distribution is one of the ways.
Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche began teaching at Kopan Mon-
astery, Nepal, in 1970. Since then, their teachings have been recorded and
transcribed. At present we have more than 10,000 hours of digital audio and
some 60,000 pages of raw transcript on our computers. Many recordings,
mostly teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, remain to be transcribed, and
as Rinpoche continues to teach, the number of recordings in the Archive
increases accordingly. Most of our transcripts have been neither checked
nor edited.
Here at the LYWA we are making every effort to organize the transcrip-
tion of that which has not yet been transcribed, edit that which has not yet
been edited, and generally do the many other tasks detailed below. In all this,
we need your financial help. Please contact us for more information:
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
PO Box 356, Weston, MA 02493, USA
Telephone (781) 259-4466; Fax (678) 868-4806
info@LamaYeshe.com
www.LamaYeshe.com
The Archive Trust
The work of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive falls into two categories:
archiving and dissemination.
Archiving requires managing the recordings of teachings by Lama Yeshe and
Lama Zopa Rinpoche that have already been collected, collecting recordings
of teachings given but not yet sent to the Archive, and collecting record-
ings of Lama Zopa s on-going teachings, talks, advice and so forth as he trav-
els the world for the benefit of all. Incoming media are then catalogued and
stored safely while being kept accessible for further work.
We organize the transcription of audio, add the transcripts to the already
existent database of teachings, manage this database, have transcripts
checked, and make transcripts available to editors or others doing research
on or practicing these teachings.
Other archiving activities include working with video and photographs
of the Lamas and digitizing Archive materials.
Dissemination involves making the Lamas teachings available through vari-
ous avenues including books for free distribution, books for sale through
Wisdom Publications, lightly edited transcripts, a monthly e-letter (see
below), audio CDs, DVDs, articles in Mandala and other magazines and on
our Web site. Irrespective of the medium we choose, the teachings require a
significant amount of work to prepare them for distribution.
This is just a summary of what we do. The Archive was established with
virtually no seed funding and has developed solely through the kindness of
many people, some of whom we have mentioned at the front of this book
and most of the others on our Web site. We sincerely thank them all.
Our further development similarly depends upon the generosity of those
who see the benefit and necessity of this work, and we would be extremely
grateful for your help.
The Archive Trust has been established to fund the above activities and
we hereby appeal to you for your kind support. If you would like to make a
contribution to help us with any of the above tasks or to sponsor books for
free distribution, please contact us at our Weston address.
The Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive is a 501(c)(3) tax-deductible, non-
profit corporation dedicated to the welfare of all sentient beings and totally
dependent upon your donations for its continued existence.
Thank you so much for your support. You may contribute by mailing a
check, bank draft or money order to our Weston address; by making a dona-
tion on our secure Web site; by mailing us your credit card number or phon-
ing it in; or by transferring funds directly to our bank ask us for details.
Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive Membership
In order to raise the money we need to employ editors to make available
the thousands of hours of teachings mentioned above, we have established
a membership plan. Membership costs US$1,000 and its main benefit is
that you will be helping make the Lamas incredible teachings available to
a worldwide audience. More direct and tangible benefits to you person-
ally include free Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche books from the
Archive and Wisdom Publications, a year s subscription to Mandala, a year
of monthly pujas by the monks and nuns at Kopan Monastery with your
personal dedication, and access to an exclusive members-only section of
our Web site containing special, unpublished teachings currently unavail-
able to others. Please see www.LamaYeshe.com for more information.
Monthly e-letter
Each month we send out a free e-letter containing our latest news and a
previously unpublished teaching by Lama Yeshe or Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
To see more than fifty back-issues or to subscribe with your email address,
please go to our Web site.
The Foundation for the Preservation
of the Mahayana Tradition
The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) is an
international organization of Buddhist meditation study and retreat centers,
both urban and rural, monasteries, publishing houses, healing centers and
other related activities founded in 1975 by Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama
Thubten Zopa Rinpoche. At present, there are more than 145 FPMT activities
in over thirty countries worldwide.
The FPMT has been established to facilitate the study and practice of
Mahayana Buddhism in general and the Tibetan Gelug tradition, founded
in the fifteenth century by the great scholar, yogi and saint, Lama Je Tsong-
khapa, in particular.
Every two months, the Foundation publishes a wonderful news journal,
Mandala, from its International Office in the United States of America. To
subscribe or view back issues, please go to the Mandala Web site, www.man-
dalamagazine.org, or contact:
FPMT
1632 SE 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 97214
Telephone (503) 808-1588; Fax (503) 808-1589
info@fpmt.org
www.fpmt.org
The FPMT Web site also offers teachings by His Holiness the Dalai Lama,
Lama Yeshe, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and many other highly respected teach-
ers in the tradition, details about the FPMT s educational programs, audio
through FPMT radio, a complete listing of FPMT centers all over the world
and in your area, a link to the excellent FPMT Store, and links to FPMT cen-
ters on the Web, where you will find details of their programs, and to other
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