Lion's Roar

THE DALAI LAMA’S SKILLFUL MEANS

I’VE HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE of studying with His Holiness the Dalai Lama for several decades. Let me tell you what it’s like to study with him.

His Holiness is extremely broad-minded and inclusive, respecting all religions and doing practices from the four Tibetan Buddhist traditions. He dialogues with scientists, leaders of other faiths, politicians, incarcerated persons, philosophers, and the general public, sharing Buddhist philosophy, psychology, and practice with them while being keen to learn about their fields of expertise. In doing so, he is the ultimate twenty-first-century Buddhist, proving we don’t need to have

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