His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, and author Douglas Abrams converge their ideas, observations, and everyday practices to attaining joy in The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World. Abrams has created a half-self-help book, half-documentary-style-narrative, describing the week-long meeting of the two world renowned spiritual and moral leaders. The three men offer a description of the nature of joy, some of the most challenging obstacles that stand in the way of joy, and finally, eight pillars that Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama have agreed upon as central to cultivating a life full of joy. This book, the men hope, will provide readers around the world with a road-map to achieving lasting joy in their own lives.
The Dalai Lama (Lhamo Thondup; born 1935), the 14th in a line of Buddhist spiritual and temporal leaders of Tibet, fled to India during the revolt against Chinese control in 1959 and from exile promot...
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