num_pages: 208
description: In Tibetan, the word for Buddhist means “insider”—someone who looks not to the world but to themselves for peace and happiness. The basic premise of Buddhism is that all suffering, however real it may seem, is the product of our own minds.Rebecca Novick’s concise history of Buddhism and her explanations of the Four Noble Truths, Wheel of Life, Karma, the path of the Bodhisattva, and the four schools help us understand Tibetan Buddhism as a religion or philosophy, and more important, as a way of experiencing the world.
language: English
title: Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism
titlecomplete: Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism
genres: Philosophy, Religion, Nonfiction, Buddhism
ratings_count: 76
publisher: Crossing Press