Understanding the Dalai Lama / edited by Rajiv Mehrotra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mehrotra, Rajiv, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho.

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935---Political and social views.

Dalai lamas--Biography.

Dalai lamas.

Political and social views.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Politics and government--1951-.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 265 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Viking, 2004.

Summary:

Contributed articles on insights into different facets of the XIV Dalai Lama.

Contents:

The Dalai Lama's roles and teachings / Robert A.F. Thurman

In search of the Panchen Lama / Isabel Hilton

Writing with His Holiness / Alexander Norman

Making kindness stand to reason / Pico Iyer

A simple monk / Sulak Sivaraksa

A very human human being / Mary Craig

Compassion in practice / Mathieu Ricard

The ocean of wisdom / Bother Wayne Teasdale

A Buddha of compassion / Nicholas Ribush / Universal responsibility in the Dalai Lama's world view / Bharati Puri

Universal responsibility and the roots of empathy and compassion / Daniel Goleman

Universal responsibility: a Christian consideration / Raimon Panikkar

Gentle bridges and golden seeds: The Dalai Lama's dialogues with science / Swati Chopra

The Dalai Lama as a political strategist / senthil Ram

The Dalai Lama and India / Dalip Mehta

The Dalai Lama and the Tibetan monastic academia / Thupten Jinpa

An unconventional Tibetan perspective / Bhuchung Tsering

A journey through

Bylakuppe / Anees Jung

In praise of His Holiness / Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Musings / Jeffrey Hopkins

The Dalai Lama and history / U.R. Ananthamurthy

His Holiness in conversation with Rajiv Mehrotra.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0670058106

9780670058105

OCLC:

60455006