Beyond Religion
Ethics for a Whole World
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · November 6, 2012
An unprecedented literary event: a beloved world religious leader proposes a way to lead an ethical, happy, and spiritual life beyond religion and offers a program of mental training for cultivating key human values.
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- Who it’s for
- A serious, accessible look at ethics as a daily practice, not a creed.
- Genres
- Ethics, Religious Ethics, Buddhism - General
- Published
- HarperCollins, November 6, 2012
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An unprecedented literary event: a beloved world religious leader proposes a way to lead an ethical, happy, and spiritual life beyond religion and offers a program of mental training for cultivating key human values. Over twenty years ago, in his best-selling Ethics for a New Millennium, His Holiness the Dalai Lama first proposed an approach to ethics based on universal rather than religious principles.
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In Beyond Religion, the Dalai Lama, at his most compassionate and outspoken, elaborates and deepens his vision for the nonreligious way. Transcending the mere “religion wars,” he outlines a system of ethics for our shared world, one that gives full respect to religion. With the highest level of spiritual and intellectual authority, the Dalai Lama makes a stirring appeal for what he calls a “third way,” a path to an ethical and happy life and to a global human community based on understanding and mutual respect. Beyond Religion is an essential statement from the Dalai Lama, a blueprint for all those who may choose not to identify with a religious tradition, yet still yearn for a life of spiritual fulfillment as they work for a better world.
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A serious, accessible look at ethics as a daily practice, not a creed.
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- ethics framed beyond doctrine
- calm, reflective daily reading
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- layered Buddhist perspective
- quiet, contemplative cadence
Where it sits
| Ethics | 42% |
|---|---|
| Religious Ethics | 32% |
| Buddhism - General | 27% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Buddhist Thought
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Spirituality
- Authors
- Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama XIV, Alexander Norman
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- November 6, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Buddhist Thought