It has been called "North America's leading source of books for students of the Theravadan tradition" by Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.
[3] Pariyatti also provides a number of services through its website, including access to classic texts that are out of print, podcasts, and emailed "Daily Words of the Buddha".
[4] Pariyatti is the sole distributor in North America of books published by the Sri Lanka–based Buddhist Publication Society (BPS) and the sole distributor in the Americas of books published by the London-based Pali Text Society (PTS), including the Tipitaka, the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition – also known as the Pāli Canon.
It also carries titles from other publishers, including publications from the Vipassana Research Institute (VRI) and Motilal Banarsidass, both based in India.
The two entities were combined in 1996 and eventually became known as Pariyatti, which is a word in the Pali language roughly meaning the intellectual background or theoretical understanding of the teachings of the Buddha.