Book Summary
Divided into two parts--"The Path of the Bodhisattva" and "The Key of Madhyamika"--this seminal collection of writings by the Dalai Lama, presented here in its only available English translation, contains important spiritual teachings for readers from both the East and the West. Foreword by Andrew Harvey, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. "Essential Teachings" presents the first English translation of a series of talks given in 1974 by the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India--the site of the Buddha's enlightenment--to a gathering of Tibetan refugees 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.
Book Details
| Book Name | Essential Teachings (Trade) |
| Author | Dalai Lama, Marianne Dresser, Andrew Harvey |
| Publisher | North Atlantic Books (03/1995) |
| ISBN | 9781556431920 |
| Pages | 152 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 596 |
