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Pariyatti is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that publishes, distributes, sells and donates books devoted to the teachings of the Buddha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddha ). It provides a number of services for free from its website, including texts related to the teaching of the Buddha that have gone out of print, podcasts, and emailed “Daily Words of the Buddha”.

According to an article in the Winter 2002 issue of “Tricycle: The Buddhist Review”      ( http://www.tricycle.com/columns/sangha-services  ), Pariyatti “has become North America’s leading source of books for students of the Theravadan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theravada )  tradition” of Buddhism. As noted in the October 2009 “IBPA Independent”,( http://www.ibpa-online.org/articles/shownews.aspx?id=2843 ) the monthly magazine of the Independent Bookseller’s Association, the Pariyatti bookstore carries almost 900 print titles, as well as audiobook CDs and downloads, DVDs, greeting cards, and other items. Pariyatti is the sole distributor in North America of books published by the Sri-Lanka-based Buddhist Publication Society (BPS) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_Publication_Society ) and the sole distributor in the Americas of books published by the London-based Pali Text Society (PTS) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pali_Text_Society ). It also carries titles from other publishers, including hard-to-find publications from the Vipassana Research Institute (VRI) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._N._Goenka#Vipassana_Research_Institute and Motilal Banarsidass ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motilal_Banarsidass ), both based in India.

Pariyatti publishes books under its own imprint and reprints selected titles published by VRI and BPS.

Pariyatti was initially based in Northern California