Tibetan Lama

In How to Expand Love, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, offers a simple yet illuminating program for transforming self-centered energy into outwardly directed compassion. Drawing on exercises and techniques established in Tibetan monasteries more than a thousand years ago, the Dalai Lama guides us through seven key stages.

In this gripping account, John Avedon draws on his work and travels with the Fourteenth Dalai Lama to bring us the riveting story of Tibet and its temporal and spiritual leader. Included is an extensive interview with the Dalai Lama, who speaks about the conditions in Tibet, the mind of a Buddha, and the events of his life. Rigorously researched, passionately written, the original edition of In Exile From the Land of Snows was instrumental in launching the modern Tibet movement when it was published in 1984.

Each of us struggles with the existential questions of meaning, purpose, and responsibility. In The Meaning of Life, the Dalai Lama examines these questions from the Buddhist perspective, skillfully guiding us to a clearer understanding which can liberate us from the prison of selfishness and suffering. Also from the Dalai Lama:
The Art of Happiness.

Already a major international best seller, now available in English for the first time: In An Appeal to the World, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet illuminates the way to peace in our time, arguing for a form of universal ethics that goes beyond religion - values we all share as humans that can help us create unity and peace to heal our world. "All people are united in the pursuit of happiness and the desire to avoid suffering," His Holiness reminds us. "This is the source of humanity's greatest achievements."

At the request of her students, Lama Shenpen Hookham tells her fascinating and unconventional life story in the Keeping the Dalai Lama Waiting & Other Stories. The lively, anecdotal autobiography documents her extraordinary spiritual journey and her encounters with her teachers that are deeply profound, moving and often humorous. Lama Shenpen shares first-hand experience of how differing cultures and ways of thinking overlap and collide with unexpected consequences.

El pensamiento de un icono espiritual de nuestro tiempo: una guía para la buena meditación y las enseñanzas básicas del budismo. El Dalai Lama ofrece aquí fundamentos budistas claves para aplicar en la vida cotidiana. Su Santidad define la noción de felicidad, de karma, habla del poder de la mente en la meditación y, finalmente, nos apela a tener un sentimiento de responsabilidad universal que guíe nuestras relaciones en este mundo cada vez más fragmentado.

The tide of modern life is sweeping us even further into isolation—away from each other, from the world, from ourselves. To turn this tide, Lama Tsomo has created the latest addition to her Ancient Wisdom for Our Times series: Deepening Wisdom, Deepening Connection. Building on the ideas and practices in the first two books—Why Bother: An Introduction and Wisdom Compassion (Starting with Yourself)—this new volume actively engages listeners, expanding our understanding and guiding our practice in the several key areas.

This eloquent, impassioned manifesto is possibly the most important message the Dalai Lama can give us about the future of our world. It's his rallying cry, full of solutions for our chaotic, aggressive, divided times: no less than a call for revolution.

The current spiritual leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso, is a passionate supporter of Buddhism and the rights of the Tibetan people, becoming a symbol of Tibetan nationhood for Tibetans everywhere. He is also famous for his words of wisdom which include "Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.", "Silence is sometimes the best answer." and "Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."

By Way of The Sea a novel by Julian Bound A Tibetan Buddhist monk takes a journey of discovery to see the seas he has always dreamt of. Struggling with his beliefs a young Tibetan Buddhist monk begins a journey to see the seas imagined since a child. Travelling through Tibet, Nepal and India to reach his goal those he encounters along the way start to restore a faith lost to him. Since a young novice Tenzin has longed to stand before seas never witnessed in a landlocked Tibet. Travelling through his homelands he walks beside holy lakes and over high attitude mountain passes until stepping ...

Completed just four years after his escape from Tibet and four years after completing his religious education, the Dalai Lama's classic text on Buddhist philosophy is a thorough but succinct overview of Buddhist doctrines as they have been practiced in Tibet for a thousand years. This invaluable handbook provides a compendium of Buddhist thought and practice that is both dense and rich - serving at once as a summation of knowledge and as an invitation to further study.

The Tibet Center and Gere Foundation present one of the world's great spiritual leaders and author of The New York Times best sellers An Open Heart and The Art of Happiness. In Mindful Enlightenment, The Dalai Lama explains how we can obtain tranquility abiding - the single cultivation of the mind.

Discover wisdom and guidance to face the climate emergency from the most influential environmental and spiritual leaders of our time, including the Dalai Lama, Greta Thunberg, Joanna Macy, Vandana Shiva, Paul Hawken, Katharine Hayhoe, and Matthieu Ricard. A Future We Can Love inspires each of us to rise to the occasion to ensure a brighter future for generations to come.

One of the world's most popular Tibetan lamas shares accessible advice for working with adversity and living a spiritual life. Enjoy a variety of meditations on topics from flattery and jealousy to karma and compassion. In each brief chapter, Khenpo Sodargye weaves in stories from ancient classics and modern headlines. Drawing on adages from the Buddha, Confucius, and even Mark Twain, he delivers simple and timeless insights about facing adversity and developing a good heart.

The Mindfulness of Wandering by Julian Bound 21 Mindful Walks through 7 Buddhist Countries for Reducing Stress and Anxiety and Finding Peace of Mind in your Everyday Life Calm the mind and start a journey towards finding peace with twenty-one short mindful walks through the beautiful temples, gardens and shrines of Asia and South East Asia. Finding peace in today’s modern world can be difficult. Although calm appears at times in our daily lives it is often fleeting, allowing elements of stress, anxiety, sadness and at times exhaustion to take dominance again. By practicing mindfulness in ...

Lama Somananda Tantrapa shares the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Shamanic Qigong in a simple and practical way. Discovering, testing and applying its principles will remarkably enhance your vitality with greater attentiveness, awareness and presence. It will help you transform and enlighten your life by developing a culture of movement that is naturally graceful and harmonious.

"Non ascoltate questo audiolibro solo per ottenere nuove informazioni, ma usatelo per trasformare la vostra mente". Con le tre opere raccolte in questo volume il Dalai Lama illustra al lettore occidentale il pensiero buddhista. In "La via della liberazione" sono esposti e commentati con chiarezza gli insegnamenti fondamentali del buddhismo tibetano; con "La mente e il cuore" vengono trattati gli esercizi spirituali per risvegliare la propria mente e prepararla all'illuminazione.

En este libro se recogen las conversaciones que, durante más de veinticinco años, ha mantenido el Dalai Lama con uno de sus más queridos discípulos. En ellas Su Santidad muestra todas sus facetas: mentor personal, maestro en lo divino, líder terrenal, embajador del Tíbet, filósofo abierto al mundo, hombre versado en la sabiduría milenaria del budismo, experto en meditación...y también optimista incorregible.

One of the Dalai Lama's most striking qualities is his genuine interest in Western scientific and social thought. He firmly believes that if Buddhism is to have relevance today, it must be flexible and dynamic, able to take in new ideas and adapt to new situations. In Worlds in Harmony, he combines timeless Buddhist teachings with modern Western psychological theory to address such diverse issues as environmental destruction, political oppression, and the application of Buddhist principles in the West.

The Dalai Lama’s message of peace and compassion resonates with people of all faiths and none. Yet, for all his worldwide fame, he remains personally elusive. Now, Alexander Norman, acclaimed Oxford-trained scholar of the history of Tibet, delivers the definitive biography - unique, multi-layered and at times even shocking. The Dalai Lama illuminates an astonishing odyssey from isolated Tibetan village to worldwide standing as spiritual and political leader of one of the world’s most profound and complex cultural traditions.