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Essential Teachings
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Essential Teachings Paperback - 1995

by Lama, Dalai

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Divided into two parts--"The Path of the Bodhisattva" and "The Key of Madhyamika"--this seminal collection of writings by the Dalai Lama, presented here in its only available English translation, contains important spiritual teachings for readers from both the East and the West. Foreword by Andrew Harvey, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.

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Details

  • Title Essential Teachings
  • Author Lama, Dalai
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
  • Date March 16, 1995
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2681246-6
  • ISBN 9781556431920 / 1556431929
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.87 x 6.01 x 0.46 in (22.53 x 15.27 x 1.17 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Buddhist
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94024038
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.344

Media reviews

"In one book you have marvelous representations of what the Tibetans call the two interpenetrating aspects of the enlightened mind: its boundless compassion and its "empty" wisdom. On whether we learn how to unite compassion with the 'wisdom of emptiness,' how both to care enough to work with enough selfless detachment in the middle of raging and devouring chaos, depends the future. To that future, this book is a wonderful gift, the gift of a wonderful man whose heart and mind are as spacious as the universe, and whose life is that of an authentic and humble hero of truth."
-from the Introduction by Andrew Harvey

About the author

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is the spiritual leader of Tibet. He was born on July 6, 1935, to a farming family, in a small hamlet located in Taktser, Amdo, in northeastern Tibet. At the age two, the child, then named Lhamo Dhondup, was recognized as the reincarnation of the previous 13th Dalai Lama, Thubten Gyatso. He was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama at a public declaration near the town of Bumchen in 1939. His enthronement ceremony as the Dalai Lama was held in Lhasa on February 22, 1940, and he eventually assumed full temporal (political) duties on November 17, 1950, at the age of fifteen, after the People's Republic of China's invasion of Tibet.

During the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the Dalai Lama fled to India, where he currently lives as a refugee. The 14th Dalai Lama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. He has traveled the world and has spoken about the welfare of Tibetans, environment, economics, women's rights, non-violence, interfaith dialogue, physics, astronomy, Buddhism and science, cognitive neuroscience, reproductive health, and sexuality, along with various Mahayana and Vajrayana topics.

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