Drawing from traditional Buddhist meditative practices, His Holiness the Dalai Lama presents step-by-step contemplative exercises designed to expand the reader's capacity for spiritual growth, along with clear milestones to mark the reader's progress.
In a practical, uplifting, and deeply relevant new work, His Holiness the Dalai Lama guides readers along the path to self-knowledge using the traditional Buddhist steps of meditative reflection.
Divided into a series of distinct steps that will lead spiritual seekers of all faiths toward enlightenment, this book illuminates the specifics about how to practice morality from day to day, how to practice meditation, and how to practice wisdom.
What compels some people to act compassionately without giving it a second thought, while for others it almost seems against their nature? And what will become of our society if compassion dwindles? According to Buddhist thought, compassion is society, and esteemed Buddhist scholar Jeffrey Hopkins knows that by learning to live from a more ...
Drawn from the teachings of the world-renowned leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, comes a practical, seven-step guidebook for developing love for others and transforming every relationship in life.
The Dalai Lama presents the basic worldview of Buddhism while answering some of life's most profound and challenging questions. These teachings address such issues as how to deal with aggression from within and without; how to reconcile personal responsibility with the doctrine of selflessness; how to face a terminal illness; and more. ...
A scholarly but still accessible discussion of the Buddhist view of death, dying, and the stages of life. Framed as a line-by-line response to a poem by a Tibetan Lama from the 1600s, this book, translated by Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D., advises moderation and a cheerful acceptance of the impermanence of life.
Drawn from the teachings of the world-renowned leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, comes a practical, seven-step guidebook for developing love for others and transforming every relationship in life.
A scholarly but still accessible discussion of the Buddhist view of death, dying, and the stages of life. Framed as a line-by-line response to a poem by a Tibetan Lama from the 1600s, this audiobook, read by translator Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D., advises moderation and a cheerful acceptance of the impermanence of life.
This manual presents an intimate and detailed picture of the intricacies of meditation so vividly that the reader is drawn into a Tibetan world-view of spritual development.
The final and clearest summary explanation of Buddhism's most perplexing issue, by one of the luminaries of the tradition. Presented and translated by America's leading Tibetan Buddhist scholar and interpreter for the Dalai Lama.
This concise but revealing book gives a glimpse inside the relatively unexplored thought world of the Jonangpa School of Tibetan Buddhism. This seminal text from that tradition situates the doctrine of other-emptiness within the tenet systems of the four traditional schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Rarely in the Dalai Lama's lifetime has he given teachings if such a nature in this topic, about which so little is understood. This is one of the most important works and a monument of Tibetan Buddhist literature, and the basis for the Dalai Lama's teaching. This is an invaluable book for anyone who is practicing or interested in Buddhist tantra ...
After publishing over twenty books -- mostly translations of Buddhist texts -- Prof. Jeffrey Hopkins felt compelled to write a personal account of Buddhism and its practices. In The Tantric Distinction, the ideas, concepts and methods of Buddhism are "confronted and allowed to resonate with (his) own character." Hopkins has the ability to clarify ...
The Dalai Lama explains the elaborate Tibetan tantric rite of Kalachakra, a Buddhist yogic method for sowing powerful seeds of peace in the world. Jeffrey Hopkins' extensive introduction explains the symbolism and history behind the practice.
Intended for the serious student, this collection includes earlier, esoteric writings by the current Dalai Lama as well as ancient works by Nagarjuna and Kaysang Gyatso, the Seventh Dalai Lama.
Step-by-step instructions to build deep and continuous experience of kindheartedness, a fundamental Buddhist practice, interwoven with the personal recollections of the author, for ten years translator for the Dalai Lama.
Now in paperback, this uplifting book teaches readers how thinking about death not only prepares one for dying, but can also bring a new mindfulness and joy to everyday living.
Tantra constitutes the fabric of a Tibetan Buddhist's daily practice, but no practice of tantra can be successful without adherence to the tantric precepts, or vows. Tsongkhapa, the founder of the Dalai Lama's tradition, is perhaps the greatest philosopher ever produced by Tibet's Buddhist culture, and remains a figure of immense significance. ...
Emptiness is the key teaching of the Buddha, and this book is the most comprehensive and authoritative work on this subject. It also covers the important topics of meditation, dependent arising, the four noble truths, Buddhist logic and tenets, and non-Buddhist schools of philosophy.
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