Medicine & compassion
Subtitle: a Tibetan Lama's guidance for caregivers
By: Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche ; with David R. Shlim ; translated by Erik Pema Kunsang ; foreword by Harvey Fineberg and Donald Fineberg.
Contributors: Shlim, David R.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Compassion -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism; Buddhism -- China -- Tibet -- Doctrines
Other titles: Tibetan Lama's guidance for caregivers
Notes: Gift of Henry G. Schwarz.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1.; title: Human nature -- -- ch. 2.; title: The causes of suffering -- -- ch. 3.; title: What patients are looking for -- -- ch. 4.; title: Combining wisdom and compassion -- -- ch. 5.; title: Impermanence, the body, and the senses -- -- ch. 6.; title: Dualistic thinking and why it is important -- -- ch. 7.; title: Conceptual and nonconceptual compassion --; title: gch. 8.; title: What does it mean to be a spiritual practitioner? -- -- ch. 9.; title: Developing a compassionate attitude -- -- ch. 10.; title: The key to compassion -- -- ch. 11.; title: Learning to meditate -- -- ch. 12.; title: Learning to monitor our mental state -- -- ch. 13.; title: The qualities of an authentic teacher -- -- ch. 14.; title: Examples of enlightened resolve -- -- ch. 15.; title: The need for a teacher -- -- ch. 16.; title: Different kinds of teachers -- -- ch. 17.; title: Cultivating a calm mind -- -- ch. 18.; title: The best possible care -- -- ch. 19.; title: Coping with difficult patients and situations -- -- ch. 20.; title: Easing the process of dying -- -- ch. 21.; title: The true meaning of death with dignity -- -- ch. 22.; title: Tibetan medicine.