Dalai Lama - Life & Legacy, In a Fly
Dalai Lama - Life & Legacy, In a Fly

Author: Carlee Orman

Publisher: AJS

Published:

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13:

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A peace loving country, home to rich cultural identity has been sieged, its ruler banished, its existence threatened. Sixty years since His Highness, the 14th Dalai Lama has left his motherland in fear of loss of life at the hands of Chinese interlopers. A country that has its spiritual leader at its helm, who is embodiment of eternal peace and compassion, has been stripped of its right to exist as one. The Dalai Lama who is revered all around the world and a Nobel laureate for peace has been forced to live in India for the past 60 years by a cantankerous neighbor. Tibet once had its own government, passport, currency, stamps and flag is now denied its ancient history and lineage and is hectored to be either part of China or live in exile forever. When world nations are waging information and technology wars to emerge as a superpower, there is a group of people who are living on a foreign soil for the past 60 years, hoping and praying that their motherland be given back to them. When the world powers are involved in diplomatic and strategic trade wars to hector and hegemonize each other, the Tibetans live each day clinging to a desperate hope that one day they can go back to the land they call their home. A book that tells the story of a people that had to flee its motherland to live in a foreign land, it rips one’s heart to read about their plight unable to go back to their place of birth. The story of the people of Tibet is a tragic one but it is also one of eternal compassion and resilience even when in the teeth of abject aggression. It also tells the story of India’s nonpareil tolerance to another culture, religion and tradition and its generosity and kindness towards a populace who don’t even belong to its country. India not only gave the Dalai Lama a safe home but also all rights to continue to preserve their unique identity which was denied in their own soil due to Chinese aggression. Why does an Asian Communist giant like China need a theocracy like Tibet? Will China ever free Tibetans and their land? Will Dalai Lama end three centuries-old Tibetan culture? Will the Tibetans ever be able to go home? Will the roof of the world accept defeat or achieve its freedom in this enduring non-violent strive? Read this book to know all about the 14th Dalai Lama and the people of Tibet!

The Life of My Teacher
The Life of My Teacher

Author: Dalai Lama

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-07-11

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1614293430

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The Dalai Lama tells the life story of his remarkable teacher, Ling Rinpoché, who remained a powerful anchor for him from childhood and into his emergence as a global spiritual leader. The Sixth Ling Rinpoché (1903–83) was a towering figure in Tibetan Buddhism. Combining great learning with great humility, he was ordained by the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and went on to serve as the the head of the Geluk tradition and as the senior tutor to the present Dalai Lama. In temperament and wisdom, he had a profound influence on the Dalai Lama’s spiritual development, and he became a steadying presence for His Holiness during the chaotic changes that defined the Tibetan experience of the twentieth century, with the invasion of their county by Communist forces and the subsequent rebuilding of their culture in India. Ling Rinpoché’s extensive travels among exiled communities abroad and across India bouyed the spirits of the Tibetan diaspora, and the training and activities of this consummate Buddhist master, here told by the Dalai Lama in the traditional Tibetan style, will inspire and amaze. Over one hundred archival photos bring the text to life.

Mind and Life
Mind and Life

Author: Pier Luigi Luisi

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2010-12-20

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0231529708

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Scientists, philosophers and Buddhist scholars discuss the nature of reality in a book that goes inside a Mind and Life Institute conference. For over a decade, members of the Mind and Life Institute have gathered to discuss questions that are both fundamental and profound: can physics, chemistry, and biology explain the mystery of life? How do our philosophical assumptions influence science and the ethics we bring to biotechnology? And how does an ancient spiritual tradition throw new light on these questions? In Mind and Life, Pier Luigi Luisi reproduces this stimulating cross-cultural dialogue in which world-class scientists, philosophers, and Buddhist scholars develop a holistic approach to the exploration of reality. He also adds scientific background to their presentations, as well as supplementary discussions with prominent participants and attendees. Interviews with His Holiness the Karmapa, the Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, and the actor and longtime human rights advocate Richard Gere further enrich the material with personal viewpoints. Conversation topics range from the origin of matter to the nature of evolution, the ethics of genetic manipulation, and the question of consciousness and ethics.

Song of the Road
Song of the Road

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Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-17

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1614290660

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In Song of the Road, Tsarchen Losal Gyatso (1502-66), a tantric master of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, weaves ecstatic poetry, song, and accounts of visionary experiences into a record of pilgrimage to central Tibet. Translated for the first time here, Tsarchen's work, a favorite of the Fifth Dalai Lama, brims with striking descriptions of encounters with the divine as well as lyrical portraits of Tibetan landscape. The literary flights of Song of the Road are anchored by Tsarchen's candid observations on the social and political climate of his day, including a rare example in Tibetan literature of open critique of religious power. Like the Japanese master Basho's famous Narrow Road to the Interior, written 150 years later, Tsarchen's travelogue contains a mixture of luminous prose and verse, rich with allusions. Traveling on horseback with a band of companions, Tsarchen visited some of the most renowned holy sites of the Tsang region, incluing Jonang, Tropu, Ngor, Shalu, and Gyantse. In his introduction and copious notes, Cyrus Stearns unearths the layers of meaning concealed in the text, excavating the history, legends, and lore associated with people and places encountered on the pilgrimage, revealing the spiritual as well as geographical topography of Tsarchen's journey.

The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life

Author: Lynne Twist

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0393340317

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"An inspired, utterly fascinating book….A book for everyone who would like to make the world a better place."—Jane Goodall This unique and fundamentally liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money—earning it, spending it, and giving it away—can offer surprising insight into our lives, our values, and the essence of prosperity. Lynne Twist, a global activist and fundraiser, has raised more than $150 million for charitable causes. Through personal stories and practical advice, she demonstrates how we can replace feelings of scarcity, guilt, and burden with experiences of sufficiency, freedom, and purpose. In this Nautilus Award-winning book, Twist shares from her own life, a journey illuminated by remarkable encounters with the richest and poorest, from the famous (Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama) to the anonymous but unforgettable heroes of everyday life.

Immortality
Immortality

Author: Stephen Cave

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0307884937

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If you could live forever, would you want to? Both a fascinating look at the history of our strive for immortality and an investigation into whether living forever is really all it’s cracked up to be. A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. He also makes a powerful argument that it’s our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives civilization. Central to this book is the metaphor of a mountaintop where one can find the Immortals. Since the dawn of humanity, everyone – whether they know it or not—has been trying to climb that mountain. But there are only four paths up its treacherous slope, and there have only ever been four paths. Throughout history, people have wagered everything on their choice of the correct path, and fought wars against those who’ve chosen differently. In drawing back the curtain on what compels humans to “keep on keeping on,” Cave engages the reader in a number of mind-bending thought experiments. He teases out the implications of each immortality gambit, asking, for example, how long a person would live if they did manage to acquire a perfectly disease-free body. Or what would happen if a super-being tried to round up the atomic constituents of all who’ve died in order to resurrect them. Or what our loved ones would really be doing in heaven if it does exist. We’re confronted with a series of brain-rattling questions: What would happen if tomorrow humanity discovered that there is no life but this one? Would people continue to please their boss, vie for the title of Year’s Best Salesman? Would three-hundred-year projects still get started? If the four paths up the Mount of the Immortals lead nowhere—if there is no getting up to the summit—is there still reason to live? And can civilization survive? Immortality is a deeply satisfying book, as optimistic about the human condition as it is insightful about the true arc of history.

The Third Eye
The Third Eye

Author: Tuesday Lobsang Rampa

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 9780749307370

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It was written in the stars that Lobsand Rampa would be a Tibetan Lama. This is his story of leaving a wealthy privileged world to enter the world of Tibetan spiritual training. Very heavy RR demand.

Learning to Breathe
Learning to Breathe

Author: Alison Wright

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781594630460

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Wright offers this searing and uplifting account of her spiritual journey that begins with her surviving a terrible accident to her triumphant ascent of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment
Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment

Author: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Publisher: Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1891868519

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About one thousand years ago, the great Indian pandit and yogi, Dipamkara Shrijnana (Atisha), was invited to Tibet to re-establish the Buddhadharma, which had been suppressed and corrupted for almost two centuries. One of Atisha's main accomplishments in Tibet was his writing of the seminal text, A Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment, in which he extracted the essence of all 84,000 teachings of the Buddha and organized them into a clear, step-like arrangement that makes it easy for any individual practitioner to understand and practice the Dharma. This genre of teachings is known as lam-rim, or steps of the path, and forms an essential part of every school of Tibetan Buddhism. In this book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama gives a commentary to not only Atisha's revolutionary work but also to Lines of Experience, a short text written by Lama Tsongkhapa, who was perhaps the greatest of all Tibetan lam-rim authors. In bringing together Atisha, Lama Tsongkhapa and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, this book offers readers one of the clearest and most authoritative expositions of the Tibetan Buddhist path ever published, and it is recommended for those at the beginning of the path, the middle and the end. This book is made possible by kind supporters of the Archive who, like you, appreciate how we make these teachings freely available in so many ways, including in our website for instant reading, listening or downloading, and as printed and electronic books. Our website offers immediate access to thousands of pages of teachings and hundreds of audio recordings by some of the greatest lamas of our time. Our photo gallery and our ever-popular books are also freely accessible there. Please help us increase our efforts to spread the Dharma for the happiness and benefit of all beings. You can find out more about becoming a supporter of the Archive and see all we have to offer by visiting our website. Thank you so much, and please enjoy this book.