In 1999 His Holiness The Dalai Lama published the bestselling Ancient Wisdom: Modern World, which addressed the question of ethics for the new millennium. A decade later, His Holiness enters the contemporary debate about religion vs atheism, and returns to the theme of ethics with a major new work: Beyond Religion: ethics for a whole world.

In this thought-provoking new book he argues that religion is not a necessity for pursuing a spiritual life. Rather, focusing on tolerance and understanding between religions, as well as tolerance and understanding between believers (of any faith) and non-believers is the way forward. The way to achieve such an approach, he proposes, is through a system of secular ethics grounded in a deep appreciation of our common humanity. Aimed particularly at the general reader, Beyond Religion: ethics for a whole world is a modern-day polemic which outlines those ethics he believes should be central to our lives.

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208 pagine
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Inglese
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Rider
Data di pubblicazione

5 gennaio 2012
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14.4 x 2.3 x 22.2 cm
ISBN-10

1846043115
ISBN-13

978-1846043116
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"The most influential person in the world" (Time magazine)

"He draws crowds that no other spiritual leader or politican could hope to match...he seems to look at life in a different way to everyone else" (The Times)

"A man of great intelligence and charm...(the Dalai Lama) has become the lynch pin of hope for a great many people." (Professor Robert Thurman, author of Infinite Life)

"This wise, humane book, an original work rather than a collection of talks, is an incisive statement of His Holiness's thinking on ways to bring peace to a suffering world." (Publishers Weekly)

"An impressive guide for teaching religious tolerance and respect to readers of all ages." (Kirkus)

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The Dalai Lama enters the debate on religion vs atheism

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Editore ‏ : ‎ Rider (5 gennaio 2012)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
Copertina rigida ‏ : ‎ 208 pagine
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1846043115
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1846043116
Peso articolo ‏ : ‎ 330 g
Dimensioni ‏ : ‎ 14.4 x 2.3 x 22.2 cm

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J. Wells

Meaningful

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 10 novembre 2023

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I found a lot of meaning in the book and the ethical framework discussed.

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Vayne77

The road to happiness for us all

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I had the please of seeing the Dalai Lama once while boarding a plane and it stroke me how humble he is. I know that I will never achieve this level but that does not stop me of trying and working on it :-).

The opening and ending of the book are the best - the middle part seems to drift away a little from the message (hence four stars) but all in all it was a good reading and there are seem great lessons to be learned. I appreciate he also spends time on how to learn to meditate.

There are two key elements that are key in the book: "I am a man of religion but religion alone cannot answer all of our problems" and "within the scale of the life of the cosmos, a human life is no more than a tiny blip. Each one of us is a visitor to this planet, a guest, who only has a finite time to stay. What greater folly could there be than to spend this short time lonely, unhappy and in conflict with our fellow visitors".

The Dalai Lama makes an appeal to our humanity - we are not that much different from each other and instead of being angry and doing horrible things to others because we think we're different we need to achieve peaceful conflict resolution. We should not be distracted with all the material items the world offers but work together to improve our planet and ourselves as a species.

This may sound like a nice idea but actually he is also realistic what is achievable and that is what sets this book apart from others that just come up with some ideas but no real plans or methods to achieve it.

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James Kearney Jr.

When did we forget ourselves?

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 9 novembre 2020

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This is a book that I think a lot of people need in the current climate of the world right now. I am just finishing the book in November 2020. Even though the book was written back in 2011 I believe, the knowledge that it puts forward is timeless. A lot of this should be automatic for human-beings, but you'd be surprised how many people a lot of the concepts in the book just simply do not apply to or are a foreign concept to them. Mainly compassion, which is spoke about a lot in the book, just seems like it is lacking today. I think if we all take a second to step back, assess, and then open our mouths, the world would be at least that much better. We have seem to forgotten that the world is bigger than just ourselves and need to try to come back to remember that. We all seem to have to forgotten that other people have feelings and they should be taken into consideration. Its very easy to get wrapped up in the me me me culture and completely forget that in the end it is all us us us. “You” may have gotten what you wanted, but what about all the people that was crushed along the way? Are they any less important than yourself? Myself, I picked up the kindle version of this book and you can digitally “highlight” passages that you like of course. If I had a physical copy of this book, I think I would have had to use a couple of highlight markers because I found myself constantly highlighting passages in it. Like I stated earlier, majority of this book should be automatic for people, but still interesting none the less. At the end of my reviews, I usually state if I think that the book is worthy of a physical copy for the bookshelf. I can say that it is.

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Charles Simmonds

Yes educate children but do much more as well.

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I give an unreserved five star rating to His Holiness's book "Beyond Religion". The theme is that we should be compassionate to other people and also in this way satisfy our inner selves. I am sure many people and humanity in general will benefit as more people read this book.
His approach uses excellent examples from His lifelong exposure to Budhist teaching. I had understood though that The Buddha started with the idea of developing inner peace and shutting out the turmoil from elsewhere in the world, however much Buddhists might lead us now in wanting to help humanity.
His Holiness writes that close to the heart of major religions has been the aim of promotion of kindness and compassion in people, which is good. Much of the Qur'an however is devoted to getting people who lived then to go and fight in Muhammad's army, for the booty of goods and slaves and to kill people who had not yet converted to Islam. The Roman Catholic Church used torture to get confessions until the mid nineteenth century. The word "Inquisition" was not removed from the department until 1908. The Papal States retained the last Jewish ghetto.
In 1949 President Truman authorized development of the hydrogen bomb on the premise that a more devastating bomb than the Soviets would stop wars. In July 2015 people in the USA have been demonstrating against the removal of a state flag which celebrates their wish to own slaves. Israelis, the leaders of Judaism, have recently killed thousands of Palestinians, apparently so they can have more of their land.
In His 'Afterword' His Holiness mentions the need to educate children to be more responsible for the world. If we real want a more humane and compassionate world we seem to need much more than that. Also His Holiness does not mention two factors which have helped the spread of compassion. One is just the spread of more education. The other is more people being able to evolve self-esteem and personal satisfaction. People who are happy doing work they are suited for and think is good and worthwhile are less likely to spend time troubling others in the world
Charles Simmonds

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Alex Y. Yoon

Best book that I have read about secular buddhism

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 7 marzo 2023

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I have been studying about secular Buddhism for a while and I just love Tenzin Gyatso's teaching.
As soon as I started reading, I just could not put the book down. I finished it in a couple day and there are so many great teachings about how to be a compassionate person, not as a Buddhist, but just as a human being. I believe that everyone should read this and it would be even better for all the school to teach about empirical truth teachings.

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