His Holiness explores the foundation of Buddhism, laying out an accessible and practical approach to age-old questions: How can we live free from suffering? How can we achieve lasting happiness and peace? Drawing from traditional Buddhist meditative practices as well as examples from today's troubled planet, he presents step-by-step exercises designed to expand the reader's capacity for spiritual growth, along with clear milestones to mark the reader's...

H.H. The Dalai Lama teaches about the truth of suffering, the Three Characteristics of Existence, and the dissolution of the body's elements at death. Meditating on impermanence and the momentary changing nature of existence helps viewers appreciate the basic unsatisfactory nature of existence, and strive towards liberation. Causally produced things all depend on causes and conditions which contain within them the seeds of their own disintegration....

"Beyond Religion" is a stirring call to move beyond religion for the guidance to improve human life on individual, community, and global levels--including a guided meditation practice for cultivating key human values.

Through practical exercises and personal anecdotes, the revered spiritual leader shows how individuals' compassion can lead to global changes.

One of today's most inspiring world leaders was once an ordinary child named Lhamo Thondup. In a small village in Tibet, his mother was his first great teacher of compassion. In everyday moments from his childhood, young readers begin to see that important lessons are all around us, and that they, too, can grow to truly understand them.

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