Ocean of Wisdom: Guidelines for Living [Hardcover]

Dalai Lama (Author), Marcia Keegan (Photographer), Richard Gere (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1991

This book has been compiled from talks the Dalai Lama has made at various venues around the world. His thoughts are at once lively and profound, for, surprisingly to some who first meet him, His Holiness has a refreshingly wonderful sense of humour. The crucial necessity for world peace, including the overriding threat of nuclear weapons, and the need to show concern for the environment are interwoven, and should be read by anyone who cares about the faith of our increasingly interdependent and imperilled earth.

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Words of wisdom, compassion, brotherhood, and love from the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of the people of Tibet and winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Dalai Lama of Tibet

Product Details

• Hardcover: 86 pages
• Publisher: Clear Light Books; 4th edition (May 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 094066609X
• ISBN-13: 978-0940666092
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,456,054 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born in 1935 to a peasant family in northeastern Tibet and was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. The world's foremost Buddhist leader, he travels extensively, speaking eloquently in favor of ecumenical understanding, kindness and compassion, respect for the environment, and, above all, world peace.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent source of inspiration through simple thoughts., April 5, 1999

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This review is from: Ocean of Wisdom: Guidelines for Living (Hardcover)

I found this book to be very enlightening and thoroughly inspirational. It's contents, simple thoughts on peace, compassion, and love provide a basis through which daily meditation and and self thought can occur. It's messages of peace to all mankind are an invaluable source of stability in otherwise unstable times. It's messages if taken properly will bring peace out from within to be spread worldwide.