An open heart: practicing compassion in everyday life

by Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho,, Dalai Lama XIV

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Provides a basic understanding of Buddhism including some of the key methods which Buddhist practitioners use to cultivate compassion and wisdom in their lives.

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Title Statements

Full title :An open heart : practicing compassion in everyday life / by the Dalai Lama ; edited by Nicholas Vreeland.

Summary

Provides a basic understanding of Buddhism including some of the key methods which Buddhist practitioners use to cultivate compassion and wisdom in their lives.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2001.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Little, Brown
Place of Publication:Boston
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 191 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780316045834, 0316045837, 9780316146845, 0316146846
oclc:ocn503002969
LC Classification:BQ7935.B774
Dewey Decimal:294.3/444

The desire for happiness -- Meditation, a beginning -- The material and immaterial world -- Karma -- The afflictions -- The vast and the profound: two aspects of the path -- Compassion -- Meditating on compassion -- Cultivating equanimity -- Bodhicitta -- Calm abiding -- The nine stages of calm abiding meditation -- Wisdom -- Buddhahood -- Generating Bodhicitta.

Subjects

Buddhism (see also Zen Buddhism) Nature -- Aspect religieux Nature -- Religious aspects Quelle RELIGION -- Comparative Religion Religious Religious life -- Buddhism Spiritualität Tibetischer Buddhismus