Research Catalog

Title

Ethics for the new millennium / His Holiness The Dalai Lama.

Author

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

Publication

New York : Riverhead Books, 1999.

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Description

xiv, 237 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

The Dalai Lama masterfully articulates some of the most important principals that are set forth by the Buddhist religion into understandable everyday language.

Subject

• Ethics
• Buddhist ethics
• Principle-Based Ethics
• Philosophy
• Empathy
• Altruism

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The foundation of ethics -- Modern society and the quest for human happiness -- No magic, no mystery -- Dependent origination and the nature of reality -- Redefining the goal -- The supreme emotion -- Ethics and the individual -- The ethics of restraint -- The ethics of virtue -- The ethics of compassion -- Ethics and suffering -- The need for discernment -- Universal responsibility -- Levels of commitment -- Ethics in society -- Peace and disarmament -- The role of religion in modern society -- An appeal.

ISBN

1573220256 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99015138^

OCLC

• 41231203
• SCSB-10033746

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library