Tras las huellas del Buda (Biblioteca de Sabiduría Y Compasión)

by Dalai Lama XIV, Bhiksuni Thubten Chodron (Translator), Isidro Gordi Marimón

Tras las huellas del Buda, profundiza en la esencia de la práctica espiritual. En primer lugar, nos encontraremos con la explicación de Su Santidad acerca del Buda, el Dharma y la Sangha, por qué son guías confiables en el sendero y cómo relacionarse con ellos. Describe a continuación los tres adiestramientos superiors en la ética, la concentración y la sabiduría. Estos capítulos nos muestran cómo vivir sin hacernos daño ni a nosotros mismos ni a los demás, y ofrecen instrucciones detalladas sobre cómo desarrollar la concentración y los estados elevados a los que puede acceder un practicante. Los capítulos sobre la sabiduría contienen enseñanzas profundas sobre el noble óctuple sendero y los cuatro fundamentos de la atención, para desarrollar una comprensión mayor del cuerpo, las sensaciones, la mente y los demás fenómenos. Este es un libro para atesorar y consultar repetidamente al comenzar el sendero, mientras se progresa en él y cuando se está cerca del objetivo final del Nirvana.

560 pages, Paperback

Published December 15, 2020

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.