An open heart : practicing compassion in everyday life / The Dalai Lama

Name/Title

An open heart : practicing compassion in everyday life / The Dalai Lama

Entry/Object ID

BQ7935 .B77 O62 2001

Description

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 Gere

Dimensions

Dimension Description

xv, 191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Book Details

Author

Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV

Editor

Nicholas Vreeland

Publisher

Little, Brown

Place Published

City

Boston

Date Published

2001

Publication Subjects

Buddhism Doctrines Religious life Buddhism

Call No.

BQ7935 .B77 O62 2001

ISBN

9780316930932, 0316930938