La Fuerza del Budismo

by Jean-Claude Carrière

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is famous for his skill in weaving together East and West, today and tomorrow, and offering an insight to an inner calm and clarity of mind that can become the fuel of our daily lives.He has never before directly addressed Buddhism's response to humanity's challenges as he does in these dialogues with the famous film writer, Jean-Claude Carriere. Covering such topics as women's and human rights, democracy and fundamentalism, education and science, terrorism and violence, the population explosion and our environment, he cuts through to the essence of each with a practical spiritual intelligence that brings insight and guidance as we approach the twenty-first century.

Genres: Buddhism, Nonfiction

Paperback

First published February 1, 1992

About the author

Jean-Claude Carrière is a writer, playwright and screenwriter, who has also written under the pseudonym Benoît Becker.

Reviews

[Gourang Ambulkar]

I must firstly qualify my rating and review by saying that I lack the necessary wisdom,maturity and experience to rate and review this subject objectively. My rating and review is relative only to the depth of my understanding.

I could digest the earlier chapters, but later on as the author started questioning the wise man on abstract matters such as void, reincarnation, illusions and interdependence, I got lost in the woods. Perhaps I ended up focusing on the trees and was incapable of seeing the forest. Nonetheless, given that the author is an acclaimed writer, I was left wanting the same easy to understand line of questioning as was the case in the earlier chapters. But again I don't blame him, because the wise man prefaced his answers by telling that words don't do justice to experience.

Read this book to see if you can uncover some gems for yourself.

[Chris Wognum]

Really enjoyed this. However... Although he apologises for it in the foreword I still think the Author waffles on a bit sometimes. Some of the subjects touched upon were a bit dull at times. But hey!...

On the whole I enjoyed it. Always like hearing what the Dalai Lama has to say.

Still need to read it again sometime I think :)

[Noelia]

-Ha dicho usted que la muerte, proceso normal e inevitable, es más un cambio de ropa vieja y gastada que un verdadero final.
-Exacto. Y si queremos morir bien, tenemos que aprender a vivir bien, porque el estado de nuestro espíritu en ese momento puede decidir la calidad de nuestro futuro renacimiento

[Alberto Zapata]

Interesante libro que muestra la mirada del Dalai Lama sobre los temas actuales: sobrepoblación, ecología, violencia, guerras, política, el rol de la mujer en la sociedad, etc y otros puntos más alejados como el Big Bang, el renacimiento, la reencarnación, el vacío, el nirvana...

[Private]

Interesting conversation on many topics and the relation of buddhism.

[Aashish Raj]

"nothing is stable forever"

[Pravin Daswani]

A very nice book in which Jean-Claude Carriere gives a very complete and even funny interview with the Holiness The Dalai Lama-Read it (please!)

[Kushal Ashok]

Shall complete it if I find it in the library again