Essential teachings

introduction by Andrew Harvey
North Atlantic Books
9781556431920
1-55643-192-9

Essential Teachings presents the first English translation of a series of talks given in 1974 by the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, Indiathe site of the Buddha's enlightenmentto a gathering of Tibetan refugees.

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and Western Buddhists. His precise and eloquent commentary on the "Path of the Bodhisattva," one of the most important teaching texts of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, offers a step-by-step guide to thirty-seven practices designed to help cultivate the spirit of compassion for all life and service to others that is at the heart of Buddhism.