Description
This beautiful keepsake edition of His Holiness’s classic essay is updated and expanded for today’s world, with a new foreword from Richard Gere and beautiful, intimate photographs of His Holiness. In this moving book His Holiness the Dalai Lama shares his perspective on the urgent question facing the world today: How do we make our societies more humane, just, and equitable? Created to commemorate the occasion of His Holiness’s ninetieth birthday, this special edition contains fourteen rare and beautiful photographs from throughout his life, taken by world-renowned photographers: Manuel Bauer, Kenro Izu, Richard Gere, Jetsun Pema, Raghu Rai, Herb Ritts, A. T. Steele, Nicky Vreeland , and Sonam Zoksang. This is a monument to honor a life spent ceaselessly calling for peace and tolerance, as well as a clarion call to all citizens of the world. As Richard Gere writes in the foreword, “The healing has begun if we want it.”.
