A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life as it Could Be
If you could sit down with the Dalai Lama and talk with him about anything, what would you discuss? Fabien Ouaki, a prominent French businessman, was granted such an opportunity and asked the Dalai Lama for his thoughts on the everyday issues that fill our newspapers and our lives. This is the record of these varied and remarkable conversations.
Covered are a wide spectrum of topics- political, social, personal and spiritual- including the media and education, marriage and sex, and disarmament and compassion. Blessed by His Holiness' buoyant and insightful thoughts, Imagine All the People allows readers to glimpse the spontaneous workings of an extraordinary mind at once of- and above- this world.
Imagine All the People, HH Dalai Lama with Fabien Ouaki, Wisdom Publications, Paperback, 178 pages, $14.95
Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, was born in northeastern Tibet in 1935. He is widely recognized as both the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people. In 1950, Tibet was invaded by China, leading to His Holiness's flight into India in 1959. Since then, His Holiness has resided in Dharamsala, India, the site of the Tibetan-government-in-exile. In recognition of his tireless work for the liberation of Tibet, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989.
Fabien Ouaki is a successful business man in France, who began his Buddhist relatonship with Kalu Rinpoche, and was introduced to the Dalai Lama in a VIP lounge at an airport. He saw His Holiness off and on through the years, more and more imporessed with his honesty and compassion, and in 1994, was granted interviews that make up the substance of this book.
| Prologue |
vii |
| The Conversations |
1 |
| Power and Values |
21 |
| Global Community |
41 |
| Economics and Altruism |
65 |
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A Middle Path |
81 |
| Living and Dying |
111 |
| Mind and Miracles |
139 |
| Epilogue |
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| Appendix: The Global Community and the Need for Universal Responsibility |
141 |
| Glossary |
163 |
| Index |
171 |
| About the Contributors |
179 |
| About Wisdom |
180 |
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