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Robert Thurman is a living treasure, one of today's most provocative spiritual thinkers.' Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional IntelligenceInner Revolution addresses both the history and practical contemporary uses of Buddhism. Robert Thurman, the first Western Tibetan Buddhist monk, argues that it is a misunderstanding of reality that has produced the cynicism we now live with in the West. Our society has a view of history that sees wars as its landmarks; a view of society indicating that we should expect the worst of one another and a view of life as a one-time meaningless event. However, those who have followed in the footsteps of the Buddha have left behind a method for proving just the opposite and showing that the Western viewpoint is nothing but a trick of our own imaginations.With originality and enormous scholarship, Robert Thurman reveals the principles of the movement to celebrate individual happiness, which the Buddha initiated some 2,500 years ago, and shows how to continue it. He portrays the Buddha's message that everyone has the opportunity to become fully, completely happy and he finds hope in history and fascinating lessons in Tibetan Buddhism as well as a viable way to change the world.ISBN:9780712670562
