by Jeffrey Hopkins · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781846041235
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«Becoming Enlightened» is the Dalai Lama's guide to Buddhism, published by Rider in paperback (in English).
The book explains, from the Buddhist tradition, how to free oneself from suffering and achieve lasting happiness and peace. It proposes step-by-step exercises inspired by meditation to replace problematic emotions with positive attitudes, with clear goals that allow one to verify spiritual progress. It includes personal experiences of the Dalai Lama as a student, thinker, political leader and Nobel Prize winner, and offers an accessible teaching for approaching Buddhism from any belief.
Translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, it was published in 2010.
A reading for those seeking an accessible introduction to Buddhism and meditation, without needing to start from a specific tradition.
Jeffrey Hopkins was an American Tibetologist. He was Emeritus professor of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the University of Virginia, where he taught for more than three decades beginning in 1973. He authored more than twenty-five books about Tibetan Buddhism, among them the highly influential Meditation on Emptiness, which appeared in 1983, offering a pioneering exposition of Prasangika-Madyamika thought in the Geluk tradition. From 1979 to 1989 he was the Dalai Lama's chief interpreter into English and he played a significant role in the development of the Free Tibet Movement. In 2006 he published his English translation of a major work by the Jonangpa lama, Dolpopa, on the Buddha Nature and Emptiness called Mountain Doctrine. Hopkins died on July 1, 2024, at the age of 83. He graduated from Harvard College (BA) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (PhD).
