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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. |
Abstract:
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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