The heart is noble
Subtitle: changing the world from the inside out
By: 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
Contributors: Finnegan, Diana, editor, translator; Derris, Karen, editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781611800012
Subjects: Buddhism and humanism; Buddhist); Kar-ma-pa (Sect); RELIGION; Buddhism; Religious life; Buddhism and social problems; General (see also PHILOSOPHY; Tibetan
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes translations from Tibetan.