Based partly on personal interviews, this is the story of the Dalai Lama's prodigious life--of how a lively child from a modest peasant family came to be recognized as the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha of Infinite Compassion. The book also portrays a vivid and important civilization based on an exuberant and sophisticated Buddhist tradition.

The Dalai Lama: A Biography

Religion & Spirituality

Levenson, Claude B.

Buddhism

Unwin Hyman

Based partly on personal interviews, this is the story of the Dalai Lama's prodigious life--of how a lively child from a modest peasant family came to be recognized as the fourteenth reincarnation of the Buddha of Infinite Compassion. The book also portrays a vivid and important civilization based on an exuberant and sophisticated Buddhist tradition.

Biographies & Memoirs

Cox, Stephen

Leaders & Notable People

Oxford University Press

The Dalai Lama: A Biography (Oxford India Paperbacks)

This exciting and often intense biography describes the Dalai Lama's rigorous education and his full assumption of power at the age of fifteen following the Chinese invasion in 1950. Though Tibetan tradition holds that the Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of his predecessors, one still marvels at the level of responsibility, maturity, and wisdom he possessed at a very young age. Through Claude B. Levenson's account of his youth, illuminated by photographs and many recollections of the Dalai Lama in his own words, we begin to understand how a lama from Tibet has become the worldwide spiritual leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.

Tenzin Gyatso: The Early Life of the Dalai Lama

Historical

North Atlantic Books

Philosophy or religion, way of life or way of being, Buddhism never ceases to intrigue. Its many aspects bear witness to the diversity of its paths, and its innumerable aspects can disorient the newcomer. Its essence is simple, however, a deep root common to all those searching for knowledge: a man, anchored in a moment of history, who awakened to affirm that it's within everyone's power to attain wisdom. The renewed interest that Buddhism has enjoyed over the past years, led by its spiritual and tempral guide the Dalai Lama, has made it possible to approach the meaning and origins of his teaching.

Symbols of Tibetan Buddhism

Assouline Publishing

This book is an invitation to discover and better understand four of the most influential religions that have contributed to shaping our culture: Judaism,Catholicism,Tibetan Buddhism, and Islam...

The Great Religions: Essential Questions

History

Quaknin, Marc-Alain

Le Gall, Dom Robert

Chebel, Malek

World

Assouline

Le seigneur du lotus blanc: Le dalaï-lama (Maîtres de vie) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Lieu commun

This first US edition includes incredible color photos alongside the text as well as a forward by the Dalai Lama. Philosophy or religion, way of life or way of being, Buddhism never ceases to intrigue. Its many aspects bear witness to the diversity of its paths, and its innumerable aspects can disorient the newcomer. Its essence is simple, however, a deep root common to all those searching for knowledge: a man, anchored in a moment of history, who awakened to affirm that it's within everyone's power to attain wisdom. The renewed interest that Buddhism has enjoyed over the past years, led by its spiritual and temporal guide the Dalai Lama, has made it possible to approach the meaning and origins of his teaching more fully.

Symbols of Tibetan Buddhism (Symbols of Religions)

Hamani, Laziz

Terrail

El señor del loto blanco : el Dalai Lama (Spanish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

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