Library The 14th Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
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The Meaning of Life
The Meaning of Life from a Buddhist Perspective
An account of the Buddhist philosophy of causality based on the wheel of life and its twelve links of dependent origination, taught in London in 1984. The Dalai Lama explains how ignorance drives the cycle of births and how it can be broken, and answers the question in the title in terms of ethics and compassion.
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Authorship note
Teachings given in London in 1984; translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins. Reissued in 2000 with the subtitle Buddhist Perspectives on Cause and Effect.
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English
The Meaning of Life: Buddhist Perspectives on Cause and Effect
Wisdom Publications, 2000
Translation: Jeffrey Hopkins
ISBN 0861711734
Registro de Open Library
The Meaning of Life from a Buddhist Perspective
Wisdom Publications, 1991
Translation: Jeffrey Hopkins
ISBN 0861710967
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
- 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
- The Heart of Compassion · 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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