AN OPEN HEART: Practicing Compassion In Everyday Life + Photographs

Front Cover Photograph: Clive Arrowsmith
Back Cover Photograph: Richard Gere (Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery)
Jacket and Book Design: Elizabeth Avedon

His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
Clive Arrowsmith's b&w photograph I used for the book's cover
Photograph (c) Clive Arrowsmith/All Rights Reserved

"IT IS MY hope that the reader of this small book will take away a basic understanding of Buddhism and some of the key methods by which Buddhist practitioners have cultivated compassion and wisdom in their lives."–The Dalai Lama

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AN OPEN HEART: PRACTICING COMPASSION IN EVERYDAY LIFE By His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Edited by Nicholas Vreeland. Afterword by Khyongla Rato Rinpoche and Richard Gere. (Amazon)

Three Trees, Rato Dratsang Monastery, Mundgod, Karnataka, India
Photograph (c) Nicholas Vreeland/All Rights Reserved

THE MATERIAL AND IMMATERIAL WORLD: The View From Hepo Ri,
Where Guru Rinpoche Defeated All The Demons of Tibet,
Samye Monastery, Tibet. Photograph (c) WA /All Rights Reserved

AN OPEN HEART: PRACTICING COMPASSION IN EVERYDAY LIFE
By His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Edited by Nicholas Vreeland
Afterword by Khyongla Rato Rinpoche and Richard Gere
Cover Photograph by Clive Arrowsmith
Book Design by Elizabeth Avedon
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