Dalai Lama Giving a Talk in New York
"Wisdom and Compassion for Challenging Times"
Town Hall in New York City
3 May, 2009

The Tibet Fund (www.tibetfund.org) is sponsoring a program of "50 Years in Exile: a Celebration of Tibetan Culture"

More details will soon be available at www.50yearsinexile.org. Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com.

B. Alan Wallace at Namgyal Monastery, Ithaca, NY
"The Way of Shamatha: Soothing the Body, Settling the Mind, and Illuminating Awareness"
10 to 12 July, 2009

Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies is offering a weekend intensive with B. Alan Wallace in July.

For more information, please visit www.namgyal.org or call (607) 273-0739.

Books for Prisoners

Snow Lion does not donate directly to individual prisoners. Instead, we donate books to the Liberation Prison Project, which sends out Buddhist books in response to individual requests as possible. If you are prisoner and would like to request donated Buddhist books, please write to the following address with the specific titles you'd like to obtain:
Liberation Prison Project
POB 31527
San Francisco, CA 94131

Snow Lion Magazine Online—New Improved Options

Snow Lion now offers its Magazine & Catalog online in pdf version—so you can see it just as it appears in the printed version.

We still have the full-graphics on-line version of the magazine available. Go to our website and at the top click on "News and Newsletter," then "Current Newsletter." There you can choose to read the pdf version, or read the articles one by one in the on-line version.

Snow Lion Now Offers an
Affiliate Program for Dharma Centers and Groups

Snow Lion Publications is pleased to offer an affiliate program for Dharma organizations.

If your dharma organization has a website, Snow Lion would like to offer you the opportunity to join our affiliate program. Browsers on your site can use links to Snow Lion to purchase anything we offer in our catalog. As a result, your organization will receive a percentage from these orders. This helps support your activities, and helps us publish more dharma books. For more information contact weblion@snowlionpub.com or click here to read more about the program.

Read, Recycle, Mulch!
Snow Lion: The Buddhist Magazine & Catalog
Finds New Life after Sharing the News

A kind reader let us know that, after she peruses her paper copy of Snow Lion: The Buddhist Magazine & Catalog which we mail out quarterly, she puts it to further use as mulch. If mulch isn't your thing, please consider recycling our newspapers with your local municipality when you're done reading it.

We print with soy-based ink, which won't harm the environment—or your tomatoes.

Special Note for Overseas Subscribers

Due to the high costs of mailing, we are only able to send one free paper edition of Snow Lion: The Buddhist Magazine & Catalog quarterly to individuals who aren't current customers and who live outside the U.S. But it's easy to keep receiving the quarterly—simply place an order with us for books or dharma items and your subscription wii be current for another year. Or, if you prefer not to place an order, please send US$20. for four issues.

See our Sign Up link for more information.

Books for Dharma Groups

Dharma Groups—Need Books for Classes?

Snow Lion does its best to keep stock on the titles we advertise. However, there is always the possiblity that we may not have enough copies of a book that you need for an upcoming class at your center.

Please give us at least three weeks' notice for books available in the USA, and we should be able to obtain additional stock to meet your needs.

Customer Comments and Consumer Survey Results 

Customer Comments:
"I'd also like to let you know that the several titles published by Snow Lion that I've been fortunate enough to read, serve, I believe, as a very positive contribution to humanity. Buddhism and Buddhist studies embraces such a wide ranging realm and, through your publications, it seem to me that access to this realm is made possible. A truly wonderful and much appreciated service. With gratitude I thank all at Snow Lion."—a customer

"Whenever I receive something from Snow Lion—whether it's the newsletter or the online quotes from the Dalai Lama and the Dharma—my heart warms, my breathing deepens and slows, my forehead loosens its tension, and I feel happier. And this is before I've read anything! I'm very grateful to you all and your effort in making so much access to Buddhism available."—Meg L.

"i wish to thank you for the wisdom from his holiness the dalai lama and from snow lion publications...they begin my day in the right frame of mind....trying hard to keep those thoughts with me throughout the week and longer...."—gratefully...lisel

"...thanks to you for your dedication, and for the support and education your quotations continually provide."—A Customer

"This sentient being is so grateful and indebted for the rays of hope, happiness and instruction you send. Thanks!"—A Customer

"Snow Lion is a jewel of dharma and the efforts you are putting in to preserve the Tibetan culture and teachings are a blessing not only for us but for society as a whole. May we all be able to use the teachings to bring ultimate benefit to all."—Peace, Jodi

Survey Results: Snow Lion Tops List of Buddhist Publishers
At the 2008 IABS conference in Atlanta, Georgia, Professor Charles Prebish announced that Snow Lion topped a list of Buddhist publishers, in his 2006 survey of 152 North American Buddhist Studies scholars. Asked what presses they publish their books with, Snow Lion was number one in the Trade/Commercial Press category. Snow Lion also won in this honor in Prebish's 1995 survey.

Receive Free Teachings and Quotes 

Every week thousands of people take advantage of the free weekly teachings Snow Lion sends out, via email. Members of our staff select texts that, we hope, are meaningful and relevant to daily life in this challenging world, and are useful as an aid to enriching your spiritual practice.

You, too, can take advantage of this resource by signing up to receive either the quotes by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, or Dharma quotes from various Tibetan teachers—or sign up to receive them both. If you would like to receive these weekly teachings, visit our Subscription List page. You can also click on the link on the bottom-right column of our home page at www.snowlionpub.com, under "Weekly Quotes ...more".

Also located on the Subscription List page are:

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Spanish Editions of Buddhist Texts
En Español

Dungkar Publications (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is part of Kagyu Teckchen Chöling, a Dharma Center under the spiritual guidance of H.H. Kalu Rinpoche and H.E. Bokar Rinpoche.

Its main goal is to make available to the large Hispanic-Buddhist community the teachings of great Masters such as: Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye, Kyabje Kalu Rinpoche, Kyabje Bokar Rinpoche, among others. The directors of KTC, Lama Sangye Dorje and Lama Rinchen Kandro, have dedicated themselves to the translation into Spanish and compilation of this valuable material.

For further information and orders, please visit http://www.kagyuargentina.org

Additional Contact Information:
Dungkar Publications
Kagyu Tekchen Chöling
Av. Melian 2171, (CP: C1430EXG)
Capital Federal, Buenos Aires
Tel: (00-5411) 4543-4925

Dharma Books in French
Livres en Français

We're pleased to let you know that Dharma books are now available in French.

French-reading Tibetan Buddhists can contact the following publisher:

Éditions Ganesha Inc.
Collection "Méthodes et Sagesse"
C.P. 484, Succursale
Youville, Montréal, QC, Canada, H2P 2W1
Tel: 450-641-2395
Fax: 450-641-2989

Got News?

If you have Tibet-related news—an event, an interview, a special teaching—that you think would be of interest to our readers, drop us a line. We're interested in articles on spirituality, politics, history, culture, literature, humor and more, for possible publication.

Please send your query to Snow Lion: The Buddhist Magazine & Catalog, to the attention of Christi Cox, at:
christicox@snowlionpub.com.

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20% discount off the retail price
on all our own titles

We hope that these great dharma books—plus the many information services we offer—are of value to you. Your purchases from the Snow Lion: The Buddhist Magazine & Catalog make possible the continued publication of new books on Tibetan Buddhism.

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