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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-     Subjects     Religions.     Religions -- Relations.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-       by title:      Toward a true kinshi...         MARC Display

Toward a true kinship of faiths [electronic resource] : [how the world's religions can come together] / by the Dalai Lama. by Bstan-ʾdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- New York : Books on Tape, 2010. Subjects Religions.   Religions -- Relations. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=76782826-C64B-4528-AE7E-211AC1F75C2B This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/252696-TowardATrueKinshipOfFaiths.wma Electronic Resource http://excerpts.contentreserve.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/252696-TowardATrueKinshipOfFaiths.mp3 ISBN:  9780307712981 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) 0307712982 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) Contents:  Leaving the comfort zone -- Living in a plurality of faiths -- Hinduism: on the banks of the Ganges -- Christ and the Bodhisattva ideal -- Islam: submission to God -- Judaism: faith of the exile -- Compassion: where the world's religions come together -- A program for inter-religious understanding -- The problem of exclusivism -- The challenge ahead. Requests:  0 Summary:  When I was growing up in Tibet, and especially after my serious engagement in studies of classical Buddhist thought and practice from the age of fifteen, I used to feel that my own Buddhist religion was the best. I thought that there simply could not be any other faith tradition that could rival the depth, sophistication, and inspirational power of Buddhism. Other religions must, at best, be "so-so." Looking back, I feel embarrassed by my naiveté, although it was the view of an adolescent boy immersed in his own savior, Jesus Christ. In fact, as a child I had heard the story of how some Christian priests had once established a mission in western Tibet in the seventeenth century. There was also a small community of Tibetan Muslims right up until modern times, who had lived in Lhasa city for over four centuries. As for Hindus and Jains, followers of the two other major religions native to India, I was convinced that the philosophical arguments, found in the classical Buddhist critiques of their tenets, had effectively demonstrated the superiority of the Buddhist faith centuries ago...   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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