The Dalai Lama

Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso is known to the whole world as The Dalai Lama. My Spiritual Journey is not a conventional memoir. Instead, it uses previously unpublished materials and recent interviews to bring readers a message that encompasses suffering, success, and hope.

Since their first meeting in 1972, Victor Chan has enjoyed a warm, enduring friendship with the Dalai Lama. Over the next three decades, Chan would travel the globe with the Tibetan leader. From private meditation sessions to meetings with world leaders, Chan was granted unprecedented access.

This new edition of the very first book of teachings by the Dalai Lama in the English-speaking world—Kindness, Clarity, and Insight—is a testament to the kindness, clarity, and insight of the material within it.

Drawn from His Holiness’s talks in New York City in August of 1999, An Open Heart is a clear and simple introduction to the core of Buddhism. The book lays out a course of meditations, from the simplest to the most challenging, that will enable anyone of any faith to see their minds more clearly and to open their hearts.