Many Ways to Nirvana: Reflections and Advice on Right Living

By Dalai Lama XIV

Book Overview

Can an ordinary person with family responsibilities achieve Nirvana or Buddhahood? What should be the spiritual limit of ambition for a busy professional? How do you stay positive when confronted with environmental and human injustice? Answering these and a host of other questions from his most recent annual Dharma Celebration, His Holiness delivers a message about the paths to "right living" and the need to overcome negative emotions in order to develop one's inner consciousness. Wise, compassionate, and always pragmatic, he offers advice on the many issues that confront us every day: how to free ourselves from emotional afflictions and petty cravings, how to transform anxiety into contentment, and how to initiate and keep alive interfaith dialogue in the troubled times we live in.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142196371
• ISBN13: 9780142196373
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Philosophy of living

The eastern approach to theism, and life's purpose is depicted in this book quite well. Reading this book provokes deep thought, and introspection, and can be used as a guide on our journey through life. I have found ideas and thoughts submitted as suitable for integration into my Christian theology, and overall, are quite sound.

Always inspiring

As always the Dalai Lama presents Buddhism in a way that reflects his compassion and the compassion of Buddhism itself. Born and raised a Catholic I came to Buddhism late in life, after struggling for years to come to terms with the double standards of my mothers religion. As a westerner still deeply entrenched in US culture it is sometimes difficult to follow the tenents of Buddhism but His Holiness explains that it will be difficult and pure sucess in not expected. However his writings have made coping with daily life much more bearable and has taught me that faith can resolve conflict.