The Meaning of Life, Dalai Lama
The Meaning of Life, Dalai Lama
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The Meaning of Life
Buddhist Perspectives on Cause and Effect

Author: Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins, Jeffrey Hopkins, Jeffrey Hopkins

Narrator: Ken McLeod

Abridged: 3 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/01/2003


Synopsis

The Dalai Lama presents the basic worldview of Buddhism while offering answers to some of life's most profound and challenging questions: Why are we in this situation? Where are we going? Do our lives have any meaning? How should we live our lives?

Basing his explanation on the twelve links of dependent-arising as depicted in the Buddhist image of the Wheel of Life, His Holiness vividly describes how human beings become trapped in a counterproductive prison of selfishness and suffering, and shows how to reverse the process, changing the limiting prison into a source of help and happiness for others. Suffused with the Dalai Lama's intelligence, wit, and kindness, these teachings address such issues as how to deal with aggression from within and without; how to reconcile personal responsibility with the doctrine of selflessness; how to face a terminal illness; how to help someone who is dying; how to reconcile love for family with love for all beings; and how to integrate this practice into everyday life.

About Dalai Lama

Tenzin Gyatzo, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and is the temporal and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. The author of The Art of Happiness, among many other books, he is the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile and resides in Dharamsala, India.Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989. He lives in exile in Dharamsala, India.

About Jeffrey Hopkins

Jeffrey Hopkins teaches Tibetan studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he founded programs in Buddhist studies and Tibetan studies. He is the author of Meditation on Emptiness. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

About Ken McLeod

Ken McLeod has been studying Buddhism since 1970.  In 1985, he became authorized as a teacher and in 1988 developed a new model for working with students that was later used as the basis for Unfettered Mind.  His group curriculum was published in 2001, titled Wake Up to Your Life: Discovering the Buddhist Path of Attention. He has narrated several audiobooks by Thich Nhat Hanh and the Dalai Lama.


Reviews

Goodreads review by robin on January 12, 2023

Nonviolence, Wisdom, And Compassion As with the other books of the Dalai Lama I have read, this book combines difficult and obscure teachings with the simplicity of the everyday. The book consists of the text of a lecture series the Dalai Lama gave in London in 1984, before he received the Nobel Priz......more

Goodreads review by Nate on October 02, 2012

This book describes the 12 stages of dependent-arising through life as depicted by the complex image that appears on the back of the book (unfortunately I forget the name). The Dalai Lama also describes how each of these stages resolve not only through life but how tantra, yoga, and the process of m......more

Goodreads review by Billie on August 26, 2017

Dalai Lama's Meaning of Life... has some good merits. He describes some of the major Buddhist artworks that illustrate the cosmology and metaphysics of Buddhism; I'd like to get my hands on some of these prints. I also enjoyed how practical some of the teachings could be. For instance, the Dalai Lam......more

Goodreads review by Seth on October 10, 2020

A collection of essays/speeches given by the 14th Dalai Lama.......more

Goodreads review by Frank on April 18, 2010

An honest account of Dalai Lama's beliefs and teachings. As the title goes, we might finally find a sense to our very nature, maybe are we here for a purpose? and in his answers you can find a possibility that makes more sense to what I have been taught so far.......more