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The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and temoroal leader of the Tibetan people. A Nobel Prize Laureate, he has published many books, including The Meaning of Life and Opening the Eye of New Awareness.

Read by Ken McLeod

The Dalai Lama explains the principles of meditation in a prectice-oriented format especially suited to Westerners.

Library Journal

The Dalai Lama has scarcely been silent or inaccessible; he is without a doubt the best-known representative of not only the plight of his country of Tibet under the hard rule of Communist China but of the practices of Tibetan Buddhism itself. is This brief work, aimed especially at the Western reader, expounds, in the master's typically unruffled style, how to recognize the nature of suffering and how to achieve wisdom and "calm abiding." While this is not the easiest or clearest introduction to Buddhist practice, any work from the hand of the Dalai Lama will arouse intense interest in Buddhist and non-Buddhist readers alike. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.