Name/Title
An open heart : practicing compassion in everyday life / The Dalai LamaEntry/Object ID
BQ7935 .B77 O62 2001Description
Summary: The Dalai Lama shares some of his key teachings on the practice of compassion, presenting a collection of meditations and introducing the fundamental philosophy of Buddhism and its core concepts.
Contents:
Foreword / by Nicholas Vreeland ; Introduction: Central Park, New York CIty, August 15, 1999 ; 1. The desire for happiness ; 2. Meditation, a beginning ; 3. The material and immaterial world ; 4. Karma ; 5. The afflictions ; 6. The vast and the profound: two aspects of the path ; 7. Compassion ; 8. Meditating on compassion ; 9. Cultivating equanimity ; 10. Bodhicitta ; 11. Calm abiding ; 12. The nine stages of calm abiding meditation ; 13. Wisdom ; 14. Buddahood ; 15. Generating Bodhicitta ; Afterword / by Khyongla Rato and Richard GereDimensions
Dimension Description
xv, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmBook Details
Author
Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIVEditor
Nicholas VreelandPublisher
Little, BrownDate Published
2001Publication Subjects
Buddhism Doctrines
Religious life BuddhismCall No.
BQ7935 .B77 O62 2001ISBN
9780316930932, 0316930938