A lifetime of wisdom : essential writings by and about the Dalai Lama / edited by Clint Willis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-

Contributor:

Willis, Clint.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-.

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho.

Physical Description:

xii, 348 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Essential writings by and about the Dalai Lama

Place of Publication:

New York : Marlowe : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2002]

Summary:

A Lifetime of Wisdom is the first book to include the Dalai Lama's essential writing on his most important themes: love, wisdom and the search for happiness. It includes his accounts of his incredible personal journey -- his experience as a child plucked from obscurity to rule Tibet, his courageous attempts to resist the Chinese invasion of his country, and his decades of selfless work for human rights and world peace. His story also takes shape through the eyes of other seekers, from Pico Iyer to Heinrich Harrer. Taken together, these stories and teachings offer the Dalai Lama's most important guidelines for a compassionate, useful and happy life -- as well as proof that each of us can live our own lifetime of wisdom.

Contents:

from Freedom in Exile / Dalai Lama 1

Inside Out: The Dalai Lama Interviewed by Spalding Gray / Spalding Gray 19

from Kindness, Clarity, and Insight / Dalai Lama, translated by Jeffrey Hopkins 35

from Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart / Dalai Lama 55

Meditations on the Ways of Impermanence / Seventh Dalai Lama, translated by Glenn H. Mullin 87

from Stages of Meditation / Dalai Lama 93

from The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace / Dalai Lama 105

from Four Essential Buddhist Commentaries / Dalai Lama 125

from My Land and My People / Dalai Lama 157

from Seven Years in Tibet / Heinrich Harrer 175

from Buddha Heart, Buddha Mind: Living the Four Noble Truths / Dalai Lama 201

from A Flash of Lighning in the Dark of Night: A guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life / Dalai Lama 211

from My Land and My People / Dalai Lama 241

from Violence and Compassion / Dalai Lama, Jean-Claude Carriere 269

from In Exile from the Land of Snows / John F. Avedon 289

Over Tea with the Dalai Lama / Pico Iyer 303

from Ethics for the New Millennium / Dalai Lama 323

A Biographical Sketch of the Fourteen Dalai Lamas / Glenn H. Mullin 329.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-348).

ISBN:

1569245738

OCLC:

48907005