Dalai Lama XIV. Libros

El presente libro es el relato de un dialogo historico entre importantes cientificos occidentales y el Dalai Lama de Tibet acerca del dormir, de los suenos y de la muerte: los tres momentos clave de la consciencia que el internacionalmente reconocido neurocientifico Francisco Varela denomino las /""zonas de sombra del ego/"". En este dialogo participaron, entre otros, relevantes personajes como el filosofo Charles Taylor, la psicoanalista Joyce McDougall, la psicologa Jayne Gackenbach, la ecologista Joan Halifax o el neurocientifico Jerome Engel. Ya traten acerca de los suenos lucidos, de las experiencias cercanas a la muerte o de la estructura misma de la consciencia, los participantes de este intercambio unico sorprenden y deleitan de manera absorbente por medio del contraste entre sus respectivas tradiciones. Es este el producto de un intercambio unico (tras una semana de exploracion del ambito de la consciencia) entre el Dalai Lama y unos pocos de sus colegas de la tradicion tibetana, junto con representantes de la ciencia y el humanismo occidentales.

This is the most informative and thorough book on Dzogchen available. These teachings are on Dzogchen, the heart essence of the ancient Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Exploring this esoteric subject in print for the first time, His Holiness offers the reader insights into one of Buddhism's most profound systems of meditation. He discusses both the philosophic foundations and the practices of this system—taking into account the approaches of various schools and teachers. Paying tribute to the uniqueness of Dzogchen, His Holiness sets it within the wider spectrum of Tibetan Buddhism as a whole. He explains the essence of Dzogchen practice and addresses questions such as why Dzogchen is called "the pinnacle of all vehicles," what are its special features, and what are the crucial principles of the other Buddhist paths which a Dzogchen practitioner should know.

This is the story of a young boy, born in Tibet to inherit the role of Buddhist lineage holder, whose life was interrupted by the Chinese army invasion and the ensuing Cultural Revolution. Two decades later, he walked out of Tibet and started on his journey of fully taking on leadership of the Drikung Kagyu lineage. Since then the teachings of this lineage have flourished and are practiced all around the world—after nearly being lost.

Based on three days of teaching in London in May 1999, this text is an edited version of the Dalai Lama's discourse on one of the most profound and sacred texts in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The Eight Verses on Generating Compassion are known in Tibetan as lojong - literally, transforming your mind. In this commentary on these teachings, the Dalai Lama shows us how to transform difficult situations into opportunities for spiritual growth. He also offers practical methods as to how to develop positive ways of thinking and compassion.

His Holiness The Dalai Lama's indispensible advice for achieving wisdom, balance and happiness.

This classic clarifies the majestic vision of life and death that underlies the Tibetan tradition. It includes not only a lucid, inspiring and complete introduction to the practice of meditation but also advice on how to care for the dying with love and compassion, and how to bring them help of a spiritual kind.

In 1938 a two year old boy was recognised through a traditional process of discovery as being the reincarnation of all previous Dalai Lamas, the spiritual rulers of Tibet. Taken away from his parents, he was brought up in Lhasa according to a monastic regimen of rigorous austerity and in almost total isolation. Aged seven he was enthroned in the 1000-room Potala palace as the supreme spiritual leader of a nation the size of Western Europe, with population of six million. And at fifteen, he became head of state. With Tibet under threat from the newly Communist Chinese, there followed a traumatic decade during which he became the confidant of both Chairman Mao and Jawaharal Nehru as he tried to maintain autonomy for his people. Then in 1959, he was finally forced into exile - followed by over 100,000 destitute refugees. Here, in his own words, he describes what it was like to grow up revered as a deity among his people, reveals his innermost feelings about his role, and discusses the mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism.

Addressing every kind of daily problem, the Dalai Lama's commentary is amplified and augmented from a contemporary Western perspective by psychiatrist Howard Cutler.

A collections of lectures by his holiness the XIV Dalai Lama.

An inspiring collection of spiritual talks by one of the greatest spiritual leaders of our time