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One of the most learned and highly trained American-born lamas in the Tibetan tradition introduces the healing insights of the Buddha, helping listeners discover peace, enlightenment, and spiritual revolution.

Focused on primarily teaching Buddhist principles to Westerners, The Dalai Lama presents a lesson on Shantideva's The Way of the Bodhisattva.

"En un mundo cada vez más polarizado, Pema nos ofrece herramientas para encontrar puntos en común (incluso cuando no estamos de acuerdo), para que podamos construir un sentido de comunidad más fuerte y amplio. Compartiendo historias jamás contadas de su vida personal, prácticas cotidianas simples y consejos de enorme poder y relevancia, Pema nos muestra el camino para convertirnos en seres compasivos o bodisatvas, incluso en las circunstancias...

The Lotus Sutra is arguably the most famous of all Buddhist scriptures. Composed in India in the first centuries of the Common Era, it is renowned for its inspiring message that all beings are destined for supreme enlightenment. Here, Donald Lopez provides an engaging and accessible biography of this enduring classic.

The Lotus Sutra is one of the most revered Mahayana texts, yet there are very few commentaries on it available in English. In this book, renowned Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh explores the Sutra's main theme -- that everyone has the capacity to become a Buddha and that the Buddha nature is inherent in everything -- while emphasizing that Buddha-nature is the basis for peaceful action. Hanh interprets the Sutra with his signature depth of vision, lucidity,...