Research Catalog

Title

Opening the eye of new awareness / Tenzin Gyatso ; translated by Donald S. Lopez, with Jeffrey Hopkins.

Author

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

Publication

Boston : Wisdom, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lopez, Donald S., Jr., 1952-
• Hopkins, Jeffrey.

Description

ix, 149 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• "Written in 1963 - just four years after his escape from Tibet and four years after completing his education - Opening the Eye of New Awareness is the Dalai Lama's first religious work. Originally intended for Tibetan lay people, Westerners, and "those who do not have the leisure to study the great texts," this is the Dalai Lama's own summation of Buddhist doctrines and practices as they have been practiced in Tibet for a thousand years.
• It is a work of consummate scholarship by a twenty-seven-year-old monk, wise beyond his years. A new introduction by Professor Lopez provides insight into the historical and philosophical context of His Holiness' work."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Blo gsar mig ʼbyed. English

Alternative Title

Blo gsar mig ʼbyed.

Subjects

• Buddhism > Doctrines
• Dge-lugs-pa (Sect) > Doctrines

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-135) and index.

Contents

1. The Need for Religious Practice -- 2. The Two Truths -- 3. How the Buddha's Pronouncements Are Included in the Three Scriptural Collections -- 4. Training in Special Ethics -- 5. Training in Special Meditative Stabilization -- 6. Training in Special Wisdom -- 7. How to Proceed on the Great and Small Vehicle Paths in Dependence upon the Three Trainings -- 8. Brief Discussion of the Secret Mantra Great Vehicle -- 9. The Four Bodies, Qualities, and Activities of Buddhahood -- 10. Tibetan Buddhism.

ISBN

0861711556 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

99028438

OCLC

• 41468211
• ocm41468211
• SCSB-3839505

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries