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  • The Compassionate Life

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama

    Collected here for the first time are four of the Dalai Lama`s most accessible and inspiring teachings on compassion.

    Published By Wisdom Publications, Boston, 2003

    Warm Heart Open Mind

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama

    Comprising talks given while the Dalai Lama was in New Zealand in 2002, this book promotes the basic human values of love, tolerance, compassion, forgiveness and self-discipline.

    Published By The Dalai Lama Trust, New Zealand, 2003

    365 - Dalai Lama Daily Advice from the Heart

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama, edited by Mathieu Ricard

    Short passages of inspirational advice for everyday living - one for every day of the year.

    Published By Element, London, 2003

    Heart of Compassion

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama

    A practical guide to an understanding of our human condition and how we can act to achieve a higher fulfilment than purely worldly enjoyment, creating a life of harmony, peace and virtue.

    Published By Lotus Press, 2003

    Healing Emotions - Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Emotions and Health

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama

    The record of an extraordinary encounter between the Dalai Lama and Buddhist teachers and Western psychologists, physicians and scientists on the mind's uncanny ability to heal the body.

    Published By Shambhala Publications, 2003

    Advice on Dying

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins

    In this empowering and positive book the Dalai Lama presents teachings on preparing for our inevitable death which can greatly benefit our perspective on living.

    Published By Random House, London, 2002

    Essence of the Heart Sutra

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama

    A commentary by the Dalai Lama on the Heart Sutra. This book includes the complete text of the Heart of Wisdom teachings given by the Dalai Lama in California in 2001.

    Published By Wisdom Publications, Boston, 2002

    How to Practice

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama, translated and edited by Jeffre

    Voice for the Voiceless

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama

    His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his struggle with China to save Tibet and its people for nearly seventy-five years.

    Published By William Morrow, 2025

    Vajrayana and the Culmination of the Path - Library of Wisdom and Compassion Vol 10

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama and Ven Thubten Chodron

    The final volume the Dalai Lama takes us to the uncommon practices and realizations of Vajrayana to the full awakening of a buddha.

    Published By Wisdom Publications, 2024

    The Book of Compassion

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama, Kailash Satyarthi, and Pooja Pande

    "The Book of Compassion" brings together two Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Kailash Satyarthi, along with writer Pooja Pande, to advocate for compassion in today's world.

    Published By Penguin Random House India, 2024

    Appearing and Empty - Library of Wisdom and Compassion Vol 9

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama and Ven Thubten Chodron

    In the ninth volume the Dalai Lama presents the analysis and meditations necessary to realize the ultimate nature of reality.

    Published By 3Wisdom Publications, 2022

    Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 4: Philosophical Topics

    By Conceived and Introduced by H.H. the Dalai Lama, edited by Thupten jinpa, Introductory Essay by Dechen Rochard

    This fourth volume provides, through extensive passages, a window into the works of the great thinkers from the flowering of philosophy in classical India.

    Published By Wisdom Publications, 2023

    Heart to Heart

    By H.H. the Dalai Lama and Patrick McDonnell

    From His Holiness the Dalai Lama and cartoonist and award-winning author Patrick McDonnell comes a powerful and timely gem of a book on how to heal our relationship with the planet and each other.

    Published By HarperCollins, 2023

    Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 3: Philosophical Schools

    By Conceived and Introdu

    Dalai Lama

    Tulku lineage of Gelug Tibetan Buddhism

    For other uses, see Dalailama.

    For the list, see List of Dalai Lamas.

    For the current Dalai Lama, see 14th Dalai Lama.

    Dalai Lama (, ;Tibetan: ཏཱ་ལའི་བླ་མ་, Wylie: Tā la'i bla ma[táːlɛːláma]) is part of the full title "Holiness Knowing Everything Vajradhara Dalai Lama" (圣 识一切 瓦齐尔达喇 达赖 喇嘛) given by Altan Khan, the first Shunyi King of Ming China. He offered it in appreciation to the leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, Sonam Gyatso, who received it in 1578 at Yanghua Monastery. At that time, Sonam Gyatso had just given teachings to the Khan, and so the title of Dalai Lama was also given to the entire tulku lineage. Sonam Gyatso became the 3rd Dalai Lama, while the first two tulkus in the lineage, the 1st Dalai Lama and the 2nd Dalai Lama, were posthumously awarded the title.

    All tulkus in the lineage of the Dalai Lamas are considered manifestations of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion.

    Since the time of the 5th Dalai Lama in the 17th century, the Dalai Lama has been a symbol of unification of the state of Tibet. The Dalai Lama was an important figure of the Gelug tradition, which was dominant in Central Tibet, but his religious authority went beyond sectarian boundaries, representing Buddhist values and traditions not tied to a specific school. The Dalai Lama's traditional function as an ecumenical figure has been taken up by the fourteenth Dalai Lama, who has worked to overcome sectarian and other divisions in the exile community and become a symbol of Tibetan nationhood for Tibetans in Tibet and in exile. He is Tenzin Gyatso, who escaped from Lhasa in 1959 during the Tibetan diaspora and lives in exile in Dharamshala, India.

    From 1642 and the 5th Dalai Lama until 1951 and the 14th Dalai Lama, the lineage was enjoined with t

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