Samsara. La vita, la morte, la rinascita

by Dalai Lama XIV

Símbolo da tolerância no meio de todos os fundamentalismos, apóstolo da não-violência quando a violência nos cerca, o Dalai Lama, Prémio Nobel da Paz, chefe espiritual e político do Tibete forçado a exilar-se na vizinha Índia, é sem dúvida uma das mais marcantes personalidades do nosso tempo.

Organizado pela jornalista francesa Frédérique Hatier, o presente livro reúne o essencial do pensamento do Dalai Lama, com base nos seus escritos e nas suas intervenções, abordando nomeadamente:
– a sua história e a história do seu povo;
– o budismo tibetano (religião, filosofia e modo de vida);
– o mundo que nos rodeia, a violência, os sofrimentos causados aos povos, aos animais, à natureza;
– a sabedoria, a meditação, os ensinamentos que se podem extrair do budismo, mesmo sem a ele aderir;
– o Samsara, o ciclo da vida – nascimento, morte e renascimento – que constitui a base da nossa existência.

Genres: Religion, Nonfiction, Philosophy

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

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

[Francisco M.]

Una introducción al budismo tibetano, contada por el propio Dalai Lama.

El formato tipo pregunta-respuesta es interesante, pero el contenido está desorganizado, a menudo resulta repetitivo, y no es autoexplicativa para gente que no tenga conocimientos previos.

[Gracie]

"Samsara"