Library The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
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The Heart of Compassion
The Heart of Compassion: A Practical Approach to a Meaningful Life
A practical guide, assembled from the Dalai Lama's teachings, to understanding the human condition and aiming at a fulfilment greater than mere worldly enjoyment. It proposes a life of harmony, peace and virtue grounded in compassion and in the discipline of the mind. It appeared first in India as a reader and later in the United States.
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English
The Heart of Compassion: A Practical Approach to a Meaningful Life
Lotus Press, 2002
ISBN 9780940985360
Registro de Open Library
The Heart of Compassion: A Dalai Lama Reader
Full Circle, 1997
ISBN 8176210196
Registro de Open Library
Other works by The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
- My Land and My People · 1962
- Freedom in Exile · 1990
- The Art of Happiness · 1998
- Ethics for the New Millennium · 1999
- The Universe in a Single Atom · 2005
- The Book of Joy · 2016
- Voice for the Voiceless · 2025
- Kindness, Clarity, and Insight · 1984
- The Buddhism of Tibet · 1975
- Opening the Eye of New Awareness · 1984
- Ocean of Wisdom · 1989
- The Way to Freedom · 1994
- The World of Tibetan Buddhism · 1995
- Awakening the Mind, Lightening the Heart · 1995
- The Power of Compassion · 1995
- The Good Heart · 1996
- Healing Anger · 1997
- The Four Noble Truths · 1997
- Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying · 1997
- Gentle Bridges · 1992
- Kalachakra Tantra: Rite of Initiation · 1985
- Transforming the Mind · 2000
- An Open Heart · 2001
- Stages of Meditation · 2001
- Advice on Dying · 2002
- Essence of the Heart Sutra · 2002
- The Art of Happiness at Work · 2003
- Practicing Wisdom · 2004
- How to See Yourself as You Really Are · 2006
- Mind in Comfort and Ease · 2007
- Becoming Enlightened · 2009
- The Middle Way · 2009
- My Spiritual Journey · 2009
- Toward a True Kinship of Faiths · 2010
- Beyond Religion · 2011
- Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions · 2014
- The Library of Wisdom and Compassion · 2017
- Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics · 2017
- A Call for Revolution · 2017
- Our Only Home · 2020
- Destructive Emotions · 2003
- An Introduction to Buddhism · 1965
- The Opening of the Wisdom Eye · 1966
- Universal Responsibility and the Good Heart · 1977
- Tantra in Tibet · 1977
- Deity Yoga · 1981
- Advice from Buddha Shakyamuni · 1982
- Four Essential Buddhist Commentaries · 1982
- Opening the Mind and Generating a Good Heart · 1985
- The Bodhgaya Interviews · 1988
- The Dalai Lama at Harvard · 1988
- The Union of Bliss and Emptiness · 1988
- Transcendent Wisdom · 1988
- The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness · 1990
- The Nobel Peace Prize and the Dalai Lama · 1990
- My Tibet · 1990
- The Global Community and the Need for Universal Responsibility · 1990
- Path to Bliss · 1991
- MindScience: An East-West Dialogue · 1991
- Cultivating a Daily Meditation · 1991
- Worlds in Harmony · 1992
- Words of Truth · 1960
- Generous Wisdom · 1992
- A Flash of Lightning in the Dark of Night · 1994
- The Path to Enlightenment · 1994
- Beyond Dogma · 1994
- The Spirit of Tibet: Universal Heritage · 1995
- Speeches, Statements, Articles, Interviews: 1987 to June 1995 · 1995
- Dialogues on Universal Responsibility and Education · 1995
- Commentary on the Thirty Seven Practices of a Bodhisattva · 1995
- The Buddha Nature · 1997
- The Power of Buddhism · 1994
- Love, Kindness and Universal Responsibility · 1997
- The Joy of Living and Dying in Peace · 1997
- The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra · 1997
- Spiritual Advice for Buddhists and Christians · 1998
- The Political Philosophy of His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama · 1998
- The Path to Tranquility: Daily Meditations · 1998
- Imagine All the People · 1999
- Eight Verses for Training the Mind · 1999
- The Little Book of Buddhism · 1999
- The Meaning of Life · 1991
- Essential Teachings · 1995
- The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom · 1998
- The Heart of the Buddha's Path · 1999
- Consciousness at the Crossroads · 1999
- The Transformed Mind · 1999
- Buddha Heart, Buddha Mind · 2000
- A Simple Path · 2000
- The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Wisdom · 2000
- The Pocket Dalai Lama · 2002
- Healing Emotions · 1997
- Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection · 2000
- The Compassionate Life · 2001
- How to Practice · 2002
- Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment · 2002
- 365 Dalai Lama: Daily Advice from the Heart · 2003
- Warm Heart, Open Mind · 2003
- The New Physics and Cosmology · 2004
- The Wisdom of Forgiveness · 2004
- Many Ways to Nirvana · 2004
- Lighting the Way · 2005
- Path of Wisdom, Path of Peace · 2005
- Widening the Circle of Love · 2005
- Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats · 2005
- The Essence of Tsongkhapa's Teachings · 2005
- Activating Bodhicitta and a Meditation on Compassion · 2006
- The Dalai Lama at MIT · 2006
- In My Own Words · 2008
- Emotional Awareness · 2008
- The Dalai Lama on Environment: Collected Statements · 2007
- The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World · 2009
- All You Ever Wanted to Know from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Happiness, Life, Living, and Much More · 2009
- The Leader's Way · 2009
- The Wisdom of Compassion · 2012
- A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Vision for Our World · 2015
- The Heart of Meditation · 2016
- The Book of Joy Journal · 2017
- Happiness · 2018
- Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence · 2018
- How to Be Compassionate · 2011
- The Life of My Teacher · 2017
- The Seed of Compassion · 2020
- The Little Book of Encouragement · 2021
- This Fragile Planet · 2021
- The Little Book of Joy · 2022
- Heart to Heart · 2023
- The Book of Compassion · 2024
- Peaceful Mind · 2025
- Loving Kindness · 2025
- The Foundation of Buddhist Practice · 2018
- Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature · 2019
- Following in the Buddha's Footsteps · 2019
- In Praise of Great Compassion · 2020
- Courageous Compassion · 2021
- Searching for the Self · 2022
- Realizing the Profound View · 2022
- Appearing and Empty · 2023
- Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path · 2024
- Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 2: The Mind · 2020
- The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace · 2002
- Meditation on the Nature of Mind · 2011
- A Profound Mind · 2011
- From Here to Enlightenment · 2011
- The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Stages of the Path, Volume One · 2022
- The Fourteenth Dalai Lama's Stages of the Path, Volume Two · 2023
- Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 3: Philosophical Schools · 2022
- Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 4: Philosophical Topics · 2023
- The Art of Living · 2001
- Live in a Better Way · 2001
- The Essential Dalai Lama · 2005
- Violence and Compassion · 1994
- The Spirit of Peace · 2002
- Dalai Lama on What Matters Most · 2013
- An Appeal to the World · 2015
- The Way of the Heart · 1992
- The Sadhana of the Inseparability of the Spiritual Master and Avalokiteshvara · 1975
- Constitution of Tibet (1963) · 1963
- The Collected Statements, Articles and Interviews of His Holiness the Dalai Lama · 1982
- A Human Approach to World Peace · 1984
- Land of Gods, Misfortune of Men · 1995
- Advice from the Heart · 2001
- Answers: Discussions with Western Buddhists · 2001
- The End of Suffering and the Discovery of Happiness · 2012
- Inner World · 2020
Sources
- Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. «Books» (catálogo de publicaciones, 142 títulos).
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