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Best Five Books Written By The Dalai Lama on Buddhism

Learn Buddhism with the Dalai Lama

Most people living in Asia are knowledgeable of the most important principles of Buddhist doctrine. Many visitors of our website are very fascinated by our works of art and quite often we receive messages from people asking about the meaning behind symbols and sometimes it’s difficult for us to provide a simple answer.
Buddhism is a very complex system of belief that focuses on personal spiritual development. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is undoubtedly the “authority” on the matter and his books offer a clear vision of the Buddhist path.
The mission of the Dalai Lama as bodhisattva focuses on helping human beings to achieve enlightenment and as author he wrote dozens of books aimed to reach his goal.

We selected the best 5 books written by the Dalai Lama aimed to people that are interested in learning Buddhism.

Approaching the Buddhist Path

This book is the first of a trilogy where His Holiness illustrates and explain every step of the path to enlightenment, compiled and coauthored the American Buddhist nun Thubten Chodron.
This first volume provides basic notions on Buddhist history and offers an ample introduction to the fundamentals of Buddhism accompanied by the Dalai Lama’s own personal experiences. To purchase the book click on the cover.

Dalai Lama introduction to Buddhism

The Foundation of Buddhist Practice

In this second book his book the Dalai Lama explain the key teachings to start the practice of the Dharma. The book offers a simple description on how to structure a meditation session, the appropriate relationship between the spiritual mentor and the student and a series of chapters on the low of Karma and the concepts of death and birth. To purchase the book click on the cover.

Dalai Lama books on Buddhism

Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature is the third volume of the trilogy. In this book the Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron give relevant information about the four noble truths. The reader will learn how to improve the personal practice with insightful and easy to apply methods. about the mind’s infinite potential through to the teachings of Dzogchen. To purchase the book click on the cover.

Dalai Lama explains Buddhism

The Art of Happiness

This book is considered a classic and the cornerstone of the field of positive psychology. The Dalai Lama here addresses many issues that we all face in daily life. The desires, the angers and ignorance which prevent us from realizing goodness and happiness. He offers the point of view of a simple Buddhist monks on these issues and teach us how to ease our path to happiness. In this book His Holiness proves his amazing ability to say things that are both simple and profound, and touches everyone. To purchase the book click on the cover.

Dalai Lama on Happiness

My Spiritual Journey

This book is composed mainly of three parts; The Dalai Lama as a Human Being, the Dalai Lama as a Buddhist monk, and The Dalai Lama as the Dalai Lama. It consists of excerpts from speeches, interviews, and other books of the Dalai Lama over the years. It is considered the most intimate book of His Holiness and close enough to be considered an autobiography of the spiritual leader. To purchase the book click on the cover.

Dalai Lama Autobiography

It is known how Buddhism doesn’t have one holy book only, as many other religions. Several authors and scholars trough history contributed to a vaste library exploring many concepts that can be hard to grasp.
With his books the Dalai Lama makes things simple for us. His examination is eloquent and comprehensive, and lovingly invites each of us to learn a little about Buddhism – and about ourselves.
Happy reading.

Religious Art and Social Media Censorship

Dear friends,

Namaste.

After three months we finally restored and updated our secure payment system. So we are happy to welcome new orders from new visitors and our affectionate customers.

Traditional Art of Nepal is now five years old and we are proud to announce that we now collabore with three more thangka painting schools in the Bhaktapur district. This allowed us to support and welcome new students willing to learn this beautiful art in any of the schools that we partner with. All this could not be possible without your kind and generous contribution. Thank you so much!

During the time our website was offline we lost lot of traffic so we decided to start a little social media campaign on Instagram and Facebook to reach more people around the world and share our works of art with them.
However today Instagram decided to not boost one of our post with the following reason:

Your ad wasn’t approved because it doesn’t follow our Advertising Policies for advertising adult products or services. We don’t allow images or videos that show nudity or cleavage, even if it’s portrayed for artistic or educational reasons.

This is the post we tried to boost:
White Tara Painting censored

It was our desire to repost this in order to thank you all and extend our best wishes to all the new visitors for a long and happy life.
To do so we wanted to use  this gorgeous thangka painting of White Tara, perfect symbol of the feminine compassion and love.
When we had this post rejected we felt that somehow people could be offended by artworks like this. If so we apologise as it is not our intention to offend anyone.

Few weeks after we tried to advertise another post on Facebook displaying a Thousand armed Avalokitesvara thangka painting and we received the following message.
Avalokitesvara Painting Censored

By learning how to paint thangka we try our best to assimilate the teachings behind each brush stroke.
Living a small village in Nepal, visited by tourists from different countries, we learned to respect other cultures and welcome everyone with a smile.

We all really hope that one day both traditional media and social media will understand the importance of this art and will look at the whole picture, and not simply at a small, little, tiny part of it.

Thank you again to everybody for the support, patience and immense affection.

Blessings,

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Happiness is an Art

Akasagarbha Thangka Painting

Akasagarbha: The Bodhisattva of Infinite Happiness

“Whether this moment is happy or not depends on you. It’s you that makes the moment happy. It’s not the moment that makes you happy.
With mindfulness, concentration and insight, any moment can become a happy moment.
Happiness is an art.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

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