His Holiness discusses a wide variety of spiritual and human concerns with his characteristic warmth, wit and perception. Not limited to Buddhists or to religious believers, the Dalai Lama's direct, practical message speaks to people everywhere of the importance of kindness, love and compassion. Appealing both to the mind and to the heart, he urges all humanity to consider the delicacy of the current world situation and to work at reshaping attitudes for a better society. His message of hope celebrates the indomitable human spirit and affirms the everpresent potential for individual and social transformation. In the later chapters the Dalai Lama elucidates with insight and profundity various topics of Buddhist doctrines. These include training and transforming the mind through meditation, the luminous nature of mind, deities in Tibetan Buddhism, and penetrating beyond appearance to the true nature of persons and other phenomena. A concluding discourse explains the basic meeting points of thought between the old and new schools in Tibet-especially the Nying-ma and Geluk to show their common aim, despite their use of different techniques, to manifest the innate mind of clear light.
Kindness, Clarity and Insight, Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, $12.95
Born in Amdo, Tibet in 1935, Tenzin Gyatso was recognized as the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, spintual and temporal leader of Tibet. Winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, tod:ay he is known the world over as a great spiritual teacher and a tireless worker for peace. His genuine warmth, penetrating intellect and disarming humility have won hirn many friends and admirers throughout the world.
Jeffrey Hopkins is Associate Professor of Northern Buddhist Studies and former director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia. Professor Hopkins had translated and edited many Tibetan texts, working closely with Tibetan scholars, and is the author of Meditation on Emptiness. He has accompanied the Dalai Lama, as translator, on his visits to North America, Southeast Asia and Australia, during his tour of North America.
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Contents: Kindness, Clarity and Insight |
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Preface |
7 |
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Editors' Note |
13 |
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Religious Values and Human Society |
15 |
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The Luminous Nature of the Mind |
25 |
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Four Noble Truths |
29 |
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Karma |
35 |
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Medicine of Wisdom and Compassion |
39 |
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Altruism and the Six Perfectionsn |
43 |
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Religious Harmony |
57 |
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Treasures of Tibetan Buddhism |
63 |
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Compassion in Global Politics |
71 |
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Meditation |
79 |
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Buddhism East to West |
99 |
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Deities |
111 |
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Eight Verses for Training the Mind |
117 |
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Om Mani Padme Hum |
135 |
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The Path to Enlightenment |
137 |
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Self and Selflessness |
179 |
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Tibetan Views on Dying |
191 |
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Transforming the Mind through Meditation |
207 |
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The Two Truthsls |
217 |
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Union of the Old and New Translation Schools |
227 |
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Notes |
255 |
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