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An open heart : practicing compassion in everyday life

Author: Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV; Nicholas Vreeland
Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, 2001.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Provides a basic understanding of Buddhism including some of the key methods which Buddhist practitioners use to cultivate compassion and wisdom in their lives.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV; Nicholas Vreeland
ISBN: 0316989797 9780316989794
OCLC Number: 46520128
Description: xv, 191 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: The desire for happiness --
Meditation, a beginning --
The material and immaterial world --
Karma --
The afflictions --
The vast and the profound: two aspects of the path --
Compassion --
Meditating on compassion --
Cultivating equanimity --
Bodhicitta --
Calm abiding --
The nine stages of calm abiding meditation --
Wisdom --
Buddhahood --
Generating Bodhicitta.
Responsibility: by the Dalai Lama ; edited by Nicholas Vreeland ; afterword by Khyongla Rato and Richard Gere.

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Provides a basic understanding of Buddhism including some of the key methods which Buddhist practitioners use to cultivate compassion and wisdom in their lives.

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