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Toward A True Kinship Of Faiths: How The World's Religions Can Come Together (2010)

by Dalai Lama XIV(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0385525052 (ISBN13: 9780385525053)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Harmony

review 1: Very nice, easy to read book about an important topic. The Dalai Lama puts together a series of his talks and lectures given around the world around the theme of religious coexistence. He starts with a brief introduction (a paragraph to a page) of the basics of the world's major religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Confuscianism, Daoism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Sikhism, and Zoroatraism. Then he talks about his personal exile forced him to reconcile other religions (some of which dominated India, where he is based) with his own without the belief that all other religions are, if well-meaning, just misguided. He talks about what he, as a Buddhist, gains from each religion and also what they may gain from Buddhism. He also spends a lot of time pointing out that in te... morerms of daily precepts, many of the world's major religions advocate similar behaviors: keeping from doing harm to others, actually helping others, restraining one's own negative actions and feelings (e.g., anger,violence), easing the misery of others, living a simple life, etc. Although he does not believe the world's religions should meld into one, he does advocate respect for and valuing of other religions while adhering faithfully to one's own. In other worlds, avoid fundamentalism, which is bad for the world and probably not what your religious heroes originally wanted anyway.
review 2: LOVED IT!!I am not a Buddhist. I thought the suthor was spot on in much of what he said. While he explains the position of fundamentalism and compares it to his positions, I think fundamentalists will not buy into his arguments. My only dissapointments were that his interactions with Christians were limited to Catholics, eastern orthodox and anglicans. That leaves protestants and other traditions, LDS and SDA's for example out of the picture. The other was his admitted lack of exposure to Islam except for Sufism or in the Indian subcontinent. That leaves out a LOT of Muslims.Still a MUST READ!!!! less

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