Happiness

by Dalai Lama XIV

From the realization of mental peace to the experience of illness, suffering, death, pain, pleasure, desire and contentment, the Dalai Lama opens a window into the attainment of absolute happiness in day to day life.

64 pages, Hardcover

Published February 1, 2018

About the author

Jetsun 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.

Reviews

[Amrendra · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very thin book of mere 56 pages, it contains excerpts from HH's lectures followed by Q&A. He mainly focuses upon the importance of love, forgiveness and compassion for mental health and prosperity for all. He also emphasis upon the role of education in widening one's perspective and on the importance to do conscientiously fulfilling acts that eventually leads to happiness.

[Tejbeer Bharal · Rating 5 out of 5]

vision of spiritual

modern society with high divide we must inco-operate such values reflected in this book for overall wellness of humanity and realise the goal of harmony in diversity

[Inshad · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.8

[Bharati Kadu · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is short read and simple book of the teachings of Dalai Lama.

[Muhammad Tayyab · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a lecture followed by a Q&A session by Dalai Lama. The whole book is 56 pages long. The main theme in this lecture is developing compassion towards others to attain peace for yourself. Little harmless book that you can read in 10 minutes.