From Publishers Weekly
The cottage industry of publishing books based on the Dalai Lama's many speeches and homilies gets another boost with His Holiness the Dalai Lama: In My Own Words, compiled by Mary Craig. This collection eschews prolonged lessons in favor of short snippets often just two sentences in length. These fragments are arranged thematically around issues such as forgiveness, nonviolence, compassion, suffering and human rights. Experienced Buddhist practitioners may opt for a meatier anthology of the Dalai Lama's thoughts (and there is no end of books to satisfy them), but this small hardcover offers a taste of Tibetan Buddhism for those novices who might be intimidated by a weightier tome.
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Book Description
In this challenging collection of the Dalai Lama's wisdom, the religious leader reflects on suffering, happiness, love, and truth, and emphasises the need to transform the human mind if we are to find real fulfilment. His Holiness the Dalai Lama was born in 1935, and enthroned as the reincarnation of the thirteenth Dalai Lama in 1940. Following the suppression of the Tibetan national uprising in 1959, he escaped to India where he was given political asylum. At the heart of all the Dalai Lama's teaching is the plea for compassion and non-violence, the essential goodness of the human heart, and the need to live well and die well.
