Fountaindale Public Library

Saṃsāra, Nirvāṇa, and Buddha Nature, Bhikṣ̣u Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and Bhikṣuṇ̣i Thubten Chodron

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Saṃsāra, Nirvāṇa, and Buddha Nature

bibliography

1041204542

Bhikṣ̣u Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and Bhikṣuṇ̣i Thubten Chodron

The library of wisdom and compassion, volume 3

In this new book from the Dalai Lama, the reader will discover the mind's infinitely vast potential, its buddha nature. Knowledge of buddha nature reveals and reconciles the paradox of how the mind can be the basis for both the duhkha of samsara (the unpurified mind) and the bliss and fulfillment of nirvana (the purified mind). To illustrate this, Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature first takes readers through Buddhist thought on the self, the four truths, and their sixteen attributes. It then explains afflictions--including how they arise and their antidotes--followed by an examination of karma and cyclic existence, and, finally, a deep and thorough elucidation of buddha nature. Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature shows us how to purify our minds and cultivate awakened qualities

adult