The Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s Stages of the Path: Volume One: Guidance for the Modern Practitioner

Discover His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s advice for finding happiness, helping others, and applying insights from Buddhist thought to everyday life–for a life of greater harmony, meaning, and joy, for ourselves, others, and in our world. This first volume of The Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s Stages of the Path shares His Holiness’s teachings on specific topics of vital relevance to contemporary life:

• how kindness and compassion are the foundation for individual happiness and world peace;
  
• how we can solve manmade problems;
  
• how Buddhism does not conflict with modern science and can actually contribute to its advancement;
  
• how gender equality is fundamental for a decent and just society;
  
• and much more.

His Holiness’s messages on these topics will be of value to all readers, Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. These teachings embody the Dalai Lama’s generous warmth and humor, his expertise in presenting important Buddhist ideas, and his ability to inspire us toward greater kindness and happiness.