Saṃsāra, Nirvāṇa, and Buddha Nature

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The work Saṃsāra, Nirvāṇa, and Buddha Nature represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Fountaindale Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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Saṃsāra, Nirvāṇa, and Buddha Nature

Statement of responsibility

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

Creator

• Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-

Contributor

• Thubten Chodron, 1950-

Author

• Thubten Chodron, 1950-
• Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-

Subject

• Life -- Religious aspects | Buddhism
• Nirvana
• Happiness -- Religious aspects | Buddhism
• Buddhism -- Doctrines
• Buddhism -- Psychology
• Nonfiction

Genre

• Nonfiction

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Library of wisdom and compassion, v. 3

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

294.3/420423

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

BQ4570.P76

LC item number

B78 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

The library of wisdom and compassion

Series volume

volume 3

Target audience

adult