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Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics compiles classical Buddhist explorations of the nature of our material world and the human mind and puts them into context for the modern reader. This ambitious four-volume series, a major resource for the history of ideas and especially the history of science, has been conceived by and compiled under the visionary supervision of His Holiness the Dalai Lama...

Graced with opening words by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the Penguin Deluxe Edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is "immaculately rendered in an English both graceful and precise." Translated with the close support of leading contemporary masters and hailed as "a tremendous accomplishment," this book faithfully presents the insights and intentions of the original work. It includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state in world...

Der 14. Dalai Lama gehört zu den bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten unserer Zeit. Als im Exil lebender Führer des tibetischen Volkes und einer der weisesten Gelehrten des Buddhismus geniesst er weltweit grosse Anerkennung. Kein anderer Fotograf der Welt ist dem Dalai Lama so nahe wie der Schweizer Manuel Bauer, der sich seit den 1990er- Jahren mit dem Buddhismus, mit Tibet und dessen spirituellem Anführer auseinandersetzt. Auf zahllosen Reisen, bei Auftritten und Veranstaltungen, aber auch in seinem indischen Zuhause begleitete und besuchte Bauer den Dalai Lama und hat dies in...

With an introductory commentary by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, who calls this translation "an extraordinary accomplishment undertaken with great care...

In a remote Himalayan village in 1721, the Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri awaited permission from Rome to continue his mission to convert the Tibetan people to Christianity. In the meantime, he forged ahead with an ambitious project: a treatise, written in classical Tibetan, that would refute key Buddhist doctrines. If he could convince the Buddhist monks that these doctrines were false, thought Desideri, he would dispel the darkness of idolatry from Tibet.

Offering a fascinating glimpse into the historical encounter between Christianity and Buddhism, Dispelling the Darkness...