Research Catalog

Title

The heart is noble : changing the world from the inside out / His Holiness the Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje ; translated by Ngodup Tsering Burkhar & Damchö Diana Finnegan, PhD ; edited by Karen Derris, PhD, & Damchö Diana Finnegan, PhD.

Author

O-rgyan-ʼphrin-las-rdo-rje, Karma-pa XVII, 1985-

Publication

• Boston, Massachusetts : Shambhala, [2013]
• ©2013

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Additional Authors

• Derris, Karen,
• Finnegan, Diana,

Description

xviii, 191 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Sixteen American college students spent a month in India with His Holiness the Seventeenth Karmapa. Together, they discussed topics ranging from food justice to gender identities to sustainable compassion. The Karmapa's teachings in this book are the product of those meetings. For those who wish to take up its challenge, this book can serve as a guide to being a friend to this planet and to all of us who share it. The Karmapa describes how to see the world as a global community, in which people are linked by their shared concerns for humanity--and their wish to bring about real change. While acknowledging the magnitude of this undertaking, the Karmapa shows us how to go about it, using the inner resources we have already"--

Subject

• Buddhism and humanism
• Buddhism and social problems
• RELIGION / Buddhism / General (see also PHILOSOPHY / Buddhist)
• RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan
• Religious life > Kar-ma-pa (Sect)

Language (note)

• Includes translations from Tibetan.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781611800012 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1611800013 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012046101

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library