Mary Craig, Author, Dalai Lama, Author Hodder & Stoughton $16.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-340-78535-5
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 ...
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H.H. Dalai Lama, edited by Sofia Stril-Rever, trans. from the French by Sebastian Houssiaux . Tibet House U.S. (Hay House, dist.), $29.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-9670115-6-1
For decades, the Dalai Lama has been a powerful voice of compassion and moral perspective in the arenas of international politics and global Buddhism. Sometimes forgotten, however, is the history of the imposition of Chinese sovereignty over Tibet,...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Renuka Singh, Compiled by, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author Viking Compass $23.95 (202p) ISBN 978-0-670-89671-4
The packaging of talks given by the Dalai Lama has become a publishing staple in the last decade. Here the Dalai Lama's student Singh, a university professor in India, has pulled together six talks delivered in New Delhi from 1988-1997. ""In order...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Victor Chan, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author with Victor Chan. Riverhead $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-57322-277-8
"Do you hate the Chinese?" Chan asked the Dalai Lama when they first met in India in 1972. It was a live question, since Chan hailed from the country that had forced the Tibetan spiritual leader into exile and subjugated the Tibetan people....
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Dalai Lama, Author, Dalai Lama, Joint Author Thorsons Publishers $24.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-00-713151-8
Observations by the 14th Dalai Lama on the true nature of life are presented here in paragraph-sized bursts, a strand of philosophical pearls skillfully strung together by Hatier, who shaped the text from years of talks, interviews, teachings and...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Howard C. Cutler, Author, Howard C. Cutler, Joint Author . Riverhead $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-57322-261-7
It should come as no surprise that the Dalai Lama, who is believed by his followers to be the human incarnation of the Buddha of Compassion, would take a compassionate interest in helping Westerners find happiness in the daily grind. Still, this...
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Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Abrams. Avery, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-18504-5
Cultivating joy was the subject of a five-day conversation between the Dalai Lama and Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus of South Africa, held in 2015 at the former's residence in exile in Dharamsala, India. The two Nobel Peace Prize recipients argued for a "
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Dalai Lama, Author, Rajiv Mehrotra, Compiled by . Hay House $19.95 (241p) ISBN 978-1-4019-2018-0
A longtime student of the Dalai Lama, Mehrotra has collected more than 25 years of his interviews with the Tibetan spiritual and political leader. The discourses on happiness, compassion and the commonalities among religions, edited from notes and...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor , translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins. Pocket $20 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7434-2708-1
The Dalai Lama, a formidable teacher, presents a way that is the middle way, but not necessarily the easy way. Because the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism has a natural gift—as well as the translating and publishing resources—that
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Dalai Lama, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author Snow Lion Publications $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-55939-228-0
Geared toward an audience of Western students just beginning to explore the Buddhist tradition, this new book from the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people explains that ""a fundamental confusion in our understanding of the world (incl
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Dalai Lama, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author Broadway Books $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2066-7
As the Dalai Lama observes in this wise and humble book, dialogue between scientists and those interested in spirituality is important because science is not neutral; it can be used for good or ill, and we must approach scientific inquiry with...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author Riverhead Books $24.95 (237p) ISBN 978-1-57322-025-5
""This is not a religious book,"" asserts the Dalai Lama about a volume that's his most outspoken to date on moral and social issues. ""My aim has been to appeal for an approach to ethics based on universal rather than religious principles."" The...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author, Donald S. Lopez, Editor HarperOne $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-06-061725-7
The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace is an extended and at times slightly diffuse meditation on extending compassion to all sentient beings. The Dalai Lama teaches on death through a reflection on impermanence and the removal of suffering--the...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author, Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor , trans. and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins. Atria $20 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6968-1
In this simple primer on compassion and kindness, the Dalai Lama teaches that "if we really want happiness, we must widen the sphere of love." The book draws on many of the same principles found in His Holiness's other works, most...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author, Lorenz Books, Author Wisdom Publications (MA) $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-86171-100-0
In his foreword to The World of Tibetan Buddhism, actor Richard Gere describes the Dalai Lama as ``universally respected as one of our greatest spiritual friends.'' The implied sentiment of equality and ease is appropriate for this manual by His...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Author . Wisdom $20 (128p) ISBN 978-0-86171-301-1
While similar in content and approach to another fall title by the Dalai Lama (Little, Brown's An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life), some things clearly bear repeating. His Holiness begins the book quite generally, reflecting...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Author Wisdom Publications (MA) $15.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-86171-097-3
In his foreword to The World of Tibetan Buddhism, actor Richard Gere describes the Dalai Lama as ``universally respected as one of our greatest spiritual friends.'' The implied sentiment of equality and ease is appropriate for this manual by His...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author, Donald Mitchell, Editor Continuum $10.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8264-1076-4
Readers who think of the Dalai Lama as that beloved, avuncular, cosmopolitan, orange-robed monk with the kindly eyes and charismatic manner are in for a surprise, if not a downright shock, with this small but powerful collection of spiritual essays.
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Dalai Lama, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author, Jigme Rinpoche, Translator Crossroad Publishing Company $19.95 (184p) ISBN 978-0-8245-1866-0
""Dalai Lama"" on Amazon.com's search engine pulls up an impressive 186 matches with publication dates from 1983 to 2001, a prodigious outpouring by any assessment. Many of these titles, of course, are about the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, but...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Thupten Jinpa, Translator, Sonam, Author Snow Lion Publications $14.95 (156p) ISBN 978-1-55939-073-6
In September 1993, the Dalai Lama gave a series of teachings in Arizona that have become known as the Arizona Teachings. Based on the sixth chapter of Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, these teachings focus on the role of patience
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Dalai Lama, Author, Jeffrey Hopkins, Translator, Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor . Trans. and edited by Jeffry Hopkins. Snow Lion $14.95 (219p) ISBN 978-1-55939-185-6
As Tibetan Buddhism matures in the West, the release of more substantive and esoteric literature becomes timely. With this intermediate audience in mind, and with the hope that "even a few people for a short period could have some internal peace,
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Dalai Lama, Author, Jean-Claude Carriere, Author, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author Doubleday Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47960-8
In 1993, well-known French screenwriter Carriere traveled to Dharamsala, India, the encampment and center of exiled Tibetans, to interview the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of a country occupied by China since 1950. In these wide-ranging talks,...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Nicholas Vreeland, Editor, Khyongla Rato, Afterword by , edited by Nicholas Vreeland. Little, Brown $22.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-316-98979-4
"Just as musicians train their hands, athletes their reflexes and techniques, linguists their ears, scholars their perceptions, so we direct our minds and hearts." And so with his characteristic deftness, His Holiness the Dalai Lama here...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Nicholas Vreeland, Editor, Khyongla Rato, Afterword by Back Bay Books $12.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-316-93093-2
A paperback reissue of last year's hardcover makes His Holiness the Dalai Lama's wisdom a bit less expensive: ""Just as musicians train their hands, athletes their reflexes and techniques, linguists their ears, scholars their perceptions, so we...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Dzong-Ka-Ba, Author, Jeffrey Hopkins, Author Snow Lion Publications $18.95 (181p) ISBN 978-1-55939-237-2
Students of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition who have advanced beyond introductory levels will appreciate this challenging, more advanced teaching. Based on the third book in a series of Vajrayana teachings developed by a Tibetan scholar in the late...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Don Lopez, Editor, Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author HarperOne $19 (192p) ISBN 978-0-06-061722-6
Great teachers seem to walk alongside those to whom they speak, when in fact they are all the while leading down the path that they illuminate. In this slender volume, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama speaks with a quiet, modest grace that is not...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Bstan-', Author, Executive Excellence Publishing, Author Wisdom Publications (MA) $24 (224p) ISBN 978-0-86171-114-7
The result of the Dalai Lama's decision to lead the 1994 John Main Seminar sponsored by the World Community for Christian Meditation, this book is a record of the seminar. It is refreshing to read the Dalai Lama's meditations on the New Testament...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Translator, Dominique Side, Editor Thorsons Publishers $20 (168p) ISBN 978-0-7225-4030-5
Based on a seminar the Dalai Lama gave in London in 1999, this slender volume offers His Holiness's reflections on The Eight Verses of Transforming the Mind, a short work by Langri Thangpa, an 11th-century Tibetan teacher. The book is distractingly...
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Dalai Lama, Author, Patrick D. Gaffney, Editor, Richard Barron, Translator Snow Lion Publications $24.95 (271p) ISBN 978-1-55939-157-3
Like all wisdom traditions, Buddhism trades on the transmission of doctrines and approaches from one generation to the next. Tibetan Buddhism also places great value on the teachings' human lineage. Dzogchen, literally ""great perfection,"" is the...
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama, read by Richard Gere, Random House Audio, unabridged, five CDs, 6 hrs., $32 ISBN 978-0-3077-1295-0
The Dalai Lama’s personal stories of religious reconciliation are the best part about this audiobook, which weaves anecdotes about his conversations with some of the world’s most impressive leaders alongside His Holiness’s ideas about how we might...
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Bstan-'Dzin-Rgy, Author, Dalai Lama, Author, Jeffrey Hopkins, Editor Atria Books $20 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7434-6302-7
Buddhist scholar and professor Hopkins studied intimately with the 14th Dalai Lama to complete this volume on spiritual preparation for death and dying. The book draws upon the 17th-century poem by the First Panchen Lama, which focused on Buddhist...
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The Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron. Wisdom, $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-61429-441-2
In this first installment of the eight-volume series Library of Wisdom and Compassion, the Dalai Lama focuses on the teachings and doctrines of the Nalanda tradition. In Tibetan Buddhism, the lamrim texts serve as a guide to the stages of awakening,
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Dalai Lama and Sofia Stril-Rever. Morrow, $18.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-286645-5
This impassioned book from the Dalai Lama, co-written with his interpreter, Sanskrit expert Stril-Rever, is a vociferous call for the youth of the world to take more concern for and control of the planet’s destiny. The set-up and source material of...
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The Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron. Wisdom, $29.95 (440p) ISBN 978-1-61429-536-5
In the third volume of the Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, the Dalai Lama and American Buddhist nun Chodron analyze three key Buddhist concepts: samsara, nirvana, and buddha nature. Whereas the first two volumes provided general overviews...
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