Collected Sayings from the Dalaï Lama
Publisher
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Rocher
Parution date
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EAN
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9782268067766
Number of pages
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291
Description
Includes a lexicon of Tibetan words and chronology of the history of Tibet
His Holiness, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, often praises women and has said that he believes that the next Dalai Lama could be a woman. This book is a tribute to those he has called “the source of genuine human compassion.”
During his last stay in France in August 2008, the Dalai Lama made a point that the future belongs to women and that to survive, the world needs to adopt the values that women embody. Catherine Barry has known the Dalai Lama for 20 years; as a woman and a Buddhist, she felt that the world needed to better understand his views of women. She collected the interviews she had had with him over the years and the notes she had taken during his seminars and conferences. Barry then read the material again, gathering the thoughts specifically related to women and organizing them into this important volume.
The book opens with a letter from the author to the Dalai Lama, addressing a wide range of topics—political, social, personal, and spiritual—having to do with women. This is a book about women, but it is also a book for everyone, to help us move into our future.
Author
Catherine Barry : Catherine Barry is a journalist. She has published a number of books, including Sages paroles du Dalaï Lama (Éditions 1, 2000, published in the United States by North Atlantic, 2002). For 10 years, from 1997 to 2007, she hosted a show on Buddhism on French television on which the Dalai Lama appeared several times.
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