His Holiness discusses a wide variety of spiritual and human concerns with his characteristic warmth, wit and perception.
Not limited to Buddhists or to religious believers, the Dalai Lama's direct, practical message speaks to people everywhere of the importance of kindness, love and compassion. Appealing both to the mind and to the heart, he urges all humanity to consider the delicacy of the current world situation and to work at reshaping attitudes for a better society. His message of hope celebrates the indomitable human spirit and affirms the everpresent potential for individual and social transformation.
In the later chapters the Dalai Lama elucidates with insight and profundity various topics of Buddhist doctrines. These include training and transforming the mind through meditation, the luminous nature of mind, deities in Tibetan Buddhism, and penetrating beyond appearance to the true nature of persons and other phenomena. A concluding discourse explains the basic meeting points of thought between the old and new schools in Tibet-especially the Nying-ma and Geluk to show their common aim, despite their use of different techniques, to manifest the innate mind of clear light.

Kindness, Clarity and Insight, Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, $12.95

Born in Amdo, Tibet in 1935, Tenzin Gyatso was recognized as the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, spintual and temporal leader of Tibet. Winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, tod:ay he is known the world over as a great spiritual teacher and a tireless worker for peace. His genuine warmth, penetrating intellect and disarming humility have won hirn many friends and admirers throughout the world.

Jeffrey Hopkins is Associate Professor of Northern Buddhist Studies and former director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Virginia. Professor Hopkins had translated and edited many Tibetan texts, working closely with Tibetan scholars, and is the author of Meditation on Emptiness. He has accompanied the Dalai Lama, as translator, on his visits to North America, Southeast Asia and Australia, during his tour of North America.

	Contents: Kindness, Clarity and Insight
	Preface	7
	Editors' Note	13
	Religious Values and Human Society	15
	The Luminous Nature of the Mind	25
	Four Noble Truths	29
	Karma	35
	Medicine of Wisdom and Compassion	39
	Altruism and the Six Perfectionsn	43
	Religious Harmony	57
	Treasures of Tibetan Buddhism	63
	Compassion in Global Politics	71
	Meditation	79
	Buddhism East to West	99
	Deities	111
	Eight Verses for Training the Mind	117
	Om Mani Padme Hum	135
	The Path to Enlightenment	137
	Self and Selflessness	179
	Tibetan Views on Dying	191
	Transforming the Mind through Meditation	207
	The Two Truthsls	217
	Union of the Old and New Translation Schools	227
	Notes	255