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The compassionate life / Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Compassion--Religious aspects--Buddhism.
- Compassion.
- Religious life--Buddhism.
- Religious life.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (128 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Wisdom Publications, [2003]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama says, ""the key to a happier and more successful world is the growth of compassion."" Giving and receiving affection is the key to happiness, and compassion is the key that opens our hearts to affection. Illuminating themes touched upon in The Good Heart and The Art of Happiness, this generous and gentle book contains some of the most beloved teachings on compassion that the Dalai Lama has ever offered. Touching and transformative, The Compassionate Life is a personal invitation from one of the world's most gifted teachers to live a life of
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Editor's Preface; 1 The Benefits of Compassion; 2 Developing Compassion; 3 Global Compassion; 4 Religious Pluralism; 5 Basic Buddhism; 6 The Bodhisattva Way; 7 Eight Verses for Training the Mind; Appendix: Generating the Mind of Enlightenment; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 6, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9786613791542
- 9781281801166
- 128180116X
- 9780861718184
- 0861718186
- OCLC:
- 782879774
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