Contents: The Dalai Lama - Essential Writings
	Acknowledgments	7
	Sources	11
	Introduction: The Teachings of Buddhism	13
1.	WISDOM	49
	Premises	51
	An Anthropology	51
	Interdependence	54
	The Awareness of Cause and Effect for Mental Transformation	56
	The Truth of No Fixed Identities and Its Implications	58
	Emptiness	61
	Wisdom and Transformation	65
	Sensibilities and Truths	73
2.	MORALITY	77
	Premises	79
	Compassion	80
	The Enemy	87
	Anger and Afflictive Emotion	88
	Perspectives	94
3.	MEDITATION	104
	Premises	106
	Memento Mori: Death as a Catalyst for Transformation	111
	Approaches and Methods	114
	Equanimity and Impartiality	119
	On Mothers as Source of Meditation	121
	Exchanging Self for Others	125
	Mindfulness	126
	Perspectives	128
4.	RELIGIONS AND THE WORLD	130
	Premises	131
	On Religions	132
	Christians, Christian Beliefs, and Buddhism	138
	Science and Spirit	144
	Politics	148
	Health in Body, Mind, World	152
	The Call	156