Author & Nyingma Lama • Sierra Nevada Foothills
Yudron Wangmo
I write books that smuggle the profound wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism into your everyday life. My books, the Awakening Library, offer a direct path into Vajrayana practice, beginning with the foundational practices in Clearing the Way to Awakening. I live in the Sierra Nevada foothills, practice what I preach, and I'm delighted you found your way here.
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Vajrayana Nonfiction
The Awakening Library
Modern, reader-friendly, books about Vajrayana Buddhist practice today.
Nonfiction · Tibetan Buddhism
Clearing the Way to Awakening: A Nine-Step Practice from Tibetan Buddhism
After years of coaching practitioners through the foundational practices, I developed a direct, clear approach to the ngondro, reducing overwhelm while revealing its power to re-orient your entire life. Featured in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review's "What We're Reading" (Summer 2025). Also available in a free Spanish-language edition, and in Brazilian Portuguese and German Kindle editions.
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Nonfiction · Workbook
Clearing the Way to Awakening Companion Workbook: Your Ngondro Journey
A friendly companion for practitioners reading the main book. Journaling prompts, guided reflections, quizzes, and more nuggets from me, like a friend you can talk to about your practice.
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✦ Now available
Nonfiction · Deity Yoga
Embodied Awakening: Transformation through Deity Yoga
An exploration of the journey of Vajrayana practice—including deity yoga and sadhana practice—for the modern Vajrayana practitioner. Also available in Brazilian Portuguese and German editions.
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Nonfiction · The Bardo
Awakening in the Bardo
Being written now, week by week, on my Substack.
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About Me
Flannel shirts in winter.
Tie-dyes in summer.
I am an older woman who lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. I like swimming in reservoirs, meditating, and hanging out with my dispersed gang of old women and men who have been practicing Tibetan Buddhism for decades. Once or twice a week, I brush the burrs out of my hair and don the red and white robes of an officially sanctioned teacher (lama) of Tibetan Buddhism.
But this website is a personal one, where I aim to seduce you into buying my books from me instead of Amazon.
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Present Clear Wakefulness
Writing every week. I post a new article each week about the journey of the modern Vajrayana practitioner, and general aspects of how we practice and look at the world. Please stop by, read, converse with me in the comments, and subscribe.
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Weekly videos on Vajrayana practice, recorded on walks in the foothills.
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Young Adult Fiction
The Cycle of the Sky novels.
Young Adult Novel · Cycle of the Sky #1
Excavating Pema Ozer
Weslyn Redinger wants one thing: to be normal again. Racked by panic attacks and drawn into a circle of seekers around a mysterious stranger, a series of vivid dreams is unleashed, pulling her between two worlds.
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Young Adult Novel · Cycle of the Sky #2
The Buddha of Lightning Peak
Seventeen-year-old Dee Adair must find inner strength from her meditation practice to weather violence and betrayal, and harness the power of friendship, if she is to save sacred Lightning Peak from destruction.
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