Welcome to Lotsawa House a growing library of free Tibetan Buddhist texts

Lotsawa* House features translations of Buddhist texts from Tibetan into English and other languages by translators from the Rigpa Lotsawa team and others including Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, Cortland Dahl and Heidi Nevin.

We offer these translations freely for the use of Dharma students. You are welcome to copy and distribute them, but we request that you make every effort to make them available free of charge. If you would like to include these texts in any publication please contact the translators by email.

* Lotsawa (lo-tsa-wa) n. Title used for the native Tibetan translators who worked together with Indian scholars (or panditas) to translate the major buddhist texts into Tibetan from Sanskrit and other Asian languages. From Skt. locchava, literally bilingual or eyes of the world. See also pandita.

Recent translations:

• Advice to Myself by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö
   
• A Mirror Revealing the Crucial Points: Advice on the Ultimate Meaning by Longchen Rabjam