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Finally, I would like to offer special thanks to Henry Lau, Datuk Tai Tsu Kuang, Diane Chen, Wah
and T. G. Yeoh, Carol Davies and my mother, Beatrice Ribush, for the important roles they have
played in helping bring the Archive to its present stage of development.
If you, dear reader, would like to join this noble group of open hearted altruists by contributing to
the production of more free booklets by Lama Yeshe or Lama Zopa Rinpoche or to the other aspects
of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive s work, please contact us to find out how.
The 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. Distribution of free booklets of
edited teachings is one of the ways.
Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche began teaching at Kopan Monastery, Nepal, in 1970. Since
then, their teachings have been recorded and transcribed. At present the LYWA contains about 5,000
cassette tapes and approximately 40,000 pages of transcribed teachings on computer disk. Some 3,000
tapes, mostly teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, remain to be transcribed. As Rinpoche continues to
teach, the number of tapes in the Archive increases accordingly. Most of the transcripts have been
neither checked nor edited.
Here at the LYWA we are making every effort to organize the transcription of that which has not
yet been transcribed, to edit that which has not yet been edited, and generally to do the many other
tasks detailed below. In all this, we need your help.
Please contact us for more information:
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Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive
PO Box 1095
Brookline, MA 02146, USA
Telephone (617) 731 2912
Fax (617) 731 9856
Email nribush@compuserve.com
The Archive Trust
The work of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive falls into two categories: archiving and
dissemination.
Archiving requires managing the audiotapes of teachings by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche
that have already been collected, collecting tapes of teachings given but not yet sent to the Archive,
and collecting tapes of Lama Zopa s on going teachings, talks, advice and so forth as he travels the
world for the benefit of all. Tapes are then catalogued and stored safely while being kept accessible for
further work.
We organize the transcription of tapes, 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 videotapes and photographs of the Lamas and
investigating the latest means of preserving Archive materials.
Dissemination involves making the Lamas teachings available directly or indirectly through
various avenues such as booklets for free distribution, regular books for the trade, lightly edited
transcripts, floppy disks, audio and videotapes, and articles in Mandala and other magazines, and on
the FPMT web site. Irrespective of the method we choose, the teachings require intensive editing 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 the many people mentioned at the front of this
booklet.
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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 facilitate this work 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 booklets for free distribution, please contact us at our Brookline 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.
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