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Ngawang Drolma
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Many Free Dharma Books

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Here are some free dharma books from the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, Archive of the FPMT. If you're checking into Buddhism for the first time and would like to read some books without buying them at first, this is a great place to start.

http://www.lamayeshe.com/zencart/index. ... x&cPath=22
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Thank you for this link.
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This is also a good free e-book and introduction to Buddhism in the form of question and answers (a lot of intelligent responses to modern questions and issues):

Sheng Yen Orthodox Chinese Buddhism

http://www.shengyen.org.tw/big5/book/orthodox.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


This is actually published in real life too, but they organization I guess provides it for free online too.

Worth reading even if you're not even really into Chinese Buddhism.
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Here's another site that has free books; http://www.numatacenter.com/default.aspx?MPID=51" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; click on "digital texts"

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thank you for the links. I now have a lot of reading to do.

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Probably you kow this site, but here goes:

http://www.buddhanet.net/library.htm

Click on the small letters, up, on right, to choose the kind of ebooks you are looking for (mahayana, Mediatation, etc)
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Another source: http://www.ymba.org/freebooks_main.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Rulu has many fine translations of sutras, plus a new book of them: http://www.sutrasmantras.info/sutra0.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Rulu came out with a second compilation of sutras, aiming at Pure Land texts: http://www.sutrasmantras.info/index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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