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The Power of Buddhism
His Holiness the Dalai Lama is famous for his skill in weaving together East and West, today and tomorrow, and offering an insight to an inner calm and clarity of mind that can become the fuel of our daily lives.
He has never before directly addressed Buddhism's response to humanity's challenges as he does in these dialogues with the famous film writer, Jean-Claude Carriere. Covering such topics as women's and human rights, democracy and fundamentalism, education and science, terrorism and violence, the population explosion and our environment, he cuts through to the essence of each with a practical spiritual intelligence that brings insight and guidance as we approach the twenty-first century.
He has never before directly addressed Buddhism's response to humanity's challenges as he does in these dialogues with the famous film writer, Jean-Claude Carriere. Covering such topics as women's and human rights, democracy and fundamentalism, education and science, terrorism and violence, the population explosion and our environment, he cuts through to the essence of each with a practical spiritual intelligence that brings insight and guidance as we approach the twenty-first century.
- GenresBuddhismNonfiction
220 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 1992
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Dalai Lama XIV
1,554 books6,204 followersJetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Lhamo Döndrub), the 14th Dalai Lama, is a practicing member of the Gelug School of Tibetan Buddhism and is influential as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the world's most famous Buddhist monk, and the leader of the exiled Tibetan government in India.
Tenzin Gyatso was the fifth of sixteen children born to a farming family. He was proclaimed the tulku (an Enlightened lama who has consciously decided to take rebirth) of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two.
On 17 November 1950, at the age of 15, he was enthroned as Tibet's ruler. Thus he became Tibet's most important political ruler just one month after the People's Republic of China's invasion of Tibet on 7 October 1950. In 1954, he went to Beijing to attempt peace talks with Mao Zedong and other leaders of the PRC. These talks ultimately failed.
After a failed uprising and the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, the Dalai Lama left for India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan Government in Exile) and in seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands of refugees who accompanied him.
Tenzin Gyatso is a charismatic figure and noted public speaker. This Dalai Lama is the first to travel to the West. There, he has helped to spread Buddhism and to promote the concepts of universal responsibility, secular ethics, and religious harmony.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, honorary Canadian citizenship in 2006, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal on 17 October 2007.
Tenzin Gyatso was the fifth of sixteen children born to a farming family. He was proclaimed the tulku (an Enlightened lama who has consciously decided to take rebirth) of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two.
On 17 November 1950, at the age of 15, he was enthroned as Tibet's ruler. Thus he became Tibet's most important political ruler just one month after the People's Republic of China's invasion of Tibet on 7 October 1950. In 1954, he went to Beijing to attempt peace talks with Mao Zedong and other leaders of the PRC. These talks ultimately failed.
After a failed uprising and the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, the Dalai Lama left for India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan Government in Exile) and in seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands of refugees who accompanied him.
Tenzin Gyatso is a charismatic figure and noted public speaker. This Dalai Lama is the first to travel to the West. There, he has helped to spread Buddhism and to promote the concepts of universal responsibility, secular ethics, and religious harmony.
He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, honorary Canadian citizenship in 2006, and the United States Congressional Gold Medal on 17 October 2007.
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September 24, 2022
I must firstly qualify my rating and review by saying that I lack the necessary wisdom,maturity and experience to rate and review this subject objectively. My rating and review is relative only to the depth of my understanding.
I could digest the earlier chapters, but later on as the author started questioning the wise man on abstract matters such as void, reincarnation, illusions and interdependence, I got lost in the woods. Perhaps I ended up focusing on the trees and was incapable of seeing the forest. Nonetheless, given that the author is an acclaimed writer, I was left wanting the same easy to understand line of questioning as was the case in the earlier chapters. But again I don't blame him, because the wise man prefaced his answers by telling that words don't do justice to experience.
Read this book to see if you can uncover some gems for yourself.
I could digest the earlier chapters, but later on as the author started questioning the wise man on abstract matters such as void, reincarnation, illusions and interdependence, I got lost in the woods. Perhaps I ended up focusing on the trees and was incapable of seeing the forest. Nonetheless, given that the author is an acclaimed writer, I was left wanting the same easy to understand line of questioning as was the case in the earlier chapters. But again I don't blame him, because the wise man prefaced his answers by telling that words don't do justice to experience.
Read this book to see if you can uncover some gems for yourself.
October 11, 2012
Really enjoyed this. However... Although he apologises for it in the foreword I still think the Author waffles on a bit sometimes. Some of the subjects touched upon were a bit dull at times. But hey!...
On the whole I enjoyed it. Always like hearing what the Dalai Lama has to say.
Still need to read it again sometime I think :)
On the whole I enjoyed it. Always like hearing what the Dalai Lama has to say.
Still need to read it again sometime I think :)
April 7, 2023
Interesante libro que muestra la mirada del Dalai Lama sobre los temas actuales: sobrepoblación, ecología, violencia, guerras, política, el rol de la mujer en la sociedad, etc y otros puntos más alejados como el Big Bang, el renacimiento, la reencarnación, el vacío, el nirvana...
May 31, 2024
Interesting conversation on many topics and the relation of buddhism.
October 17, 2025
"nothing is stable forever"
May 29, 2012
A very nice book in which Jean-Claude Carriere gives a very complete and even funny interview with the Holiness The Dalai Lama-Read it (please!)
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May 25, 2013Shall complete it if I find it in the library again
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