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Kindness, clarity, and insight / the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, his Holiness Tenzin Gyatso ; edited and translated by Jeffrey Hopkins ; co-edited by Elizabeth Napper.
LIBRA BQ7604 .B825 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhism--Doctrines.
- Buddhism.
- Buddhism--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
- China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Physical Description:
- 261 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [Revised edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Snow Lion Publications, [2006]
- Summary:
- Kindness, Clarity, & Insight is widely considered the most readable, yet substantive and wide-ranging, of the Dalai Lama's works. This celebratory new edition of the very first book of teachings by the Dalai Lama in the English-speaking world coincides with the twenty-fifth anniversary of that historic first teaching series in North America. Translated into twelve languages, it is a testament to the kindness, clarity, and insight of its contents.
- The teachings in this book comprehend and encapsulate in a crisp and concise manner all of the topics to which the Dalai Lama returns repeatedly-the core subject matter of Tibetan Buddhism. Readers of this single volume, undaunting in size, will be well prepared for understanding all of the Dalai Lama's subsequent books. This book remains the heart-message of this great world leader.
- Contents:
- Religious Values and Human Society 15
- The Luminous Nature of the Mind 25
- Four Noble Truths 29
- Karma 35
- Medicine of Wisdom and Compassion 39
- Altruism and the Six Perfections 43
- Religious Harmony 57
- Treasures of Tibetan Buddhism 63
- Compassion in Global Politics 71
- Meditation 79
- Buddhism East to West 99
- Deities 111
- Eight Verses for Training the Mind 117
- Om Mani Padme Hum 135
- The Path to Enlightenment 137
- Self and Selflessness 179
- Tibetan Views on Dying 191
- Transforming the Mind through Meditation 207
- The Two Truths 217
- Union of the Old and New Translation Schools 227.
- Notes:
- "Revised and updated."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1559392517
- OCLC:
- 68722867
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