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| Foreword: Listening to the Dalai Lama's Appeal to the World by Sofia Stril-Rever | |
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| My Three Commitments in Life | |
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| As a Human Being | |
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| Our Common Humanity | |
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| I Am No One Special | |
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| I am just a human being | |
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| In our blood, a vital need for affection | |
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| My mother, a compassionate woman | |
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| It's time to think in human terms | |
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| Every person we meet is our brother or sister | |
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| Loving-kindness, the condition of our survival | |
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| I pray for a more loving human family | |
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| We are all alike | |
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| Until My Last Breath, I Will Practice Compassion | |
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| What do we mean by "compassion"? | |
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| True compassion is universal | |
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| The power of compassion | |
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| I am a professional laugher | |
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| I am a devoted servant of compassion | |
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| Compassion, path of my happiness | |
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| I love the smile, unique to humans | |
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| My Lives Without Beginning or End | |
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| I Rejoice at Being the Son of Simple Farmers | |
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| My everyday life | |
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| I was born on the fifth day of the fifth month | |
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| I can see into the humblest souls | |
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| My parents never thought I might he the Fourteenth Dalai Lama | |
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| I recognize my rosary | |
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| I successfully pass the tests of remembering my previous life | |
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| My Childhood in Lhasa | |
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| I climb up onto the Lion Throne | |
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| I find my teeth | |
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| Childhood memories | |
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| I indulge in illegal treats | |
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| I almost looked like Moshe Dayan! | |
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| My Reincarnation Lineage | |
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| I am summoned to become the Dalai Lama to serve others | |
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| The Tibetans will decide if they want a Fifteenth Dalai Lama | |
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| My Dalailamaship | |
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| Why shouldn't a very beautiful woman be my next incarnation? | |
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| W are without beginning or end | |
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| I could reincarnate in the form of an insect | |
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| As a Buddhist Monk | |
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| Transforming Oneself | |
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| My Ideal: The Bodhisattva | |
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| My identity as a monk | |
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| My monk's vows | |
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| The daily meditations of a Buddhist monk | |
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| Living as a bodhisattva | |
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| Spiritual practice in order to become better human beings | |
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| Temples of Kindness in Our Hearts | |
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| Toward brotherly exchanges between religions | |
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| Politicians need religion more than hermits | |
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| My pilgrimages, from Lourdes to Jerusalem | |
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| A life of contemplation on love | |
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| Temples inside | |
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| Transforming Our Minds | |
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| Analysis of the wind as a preliminary to spiritual practice | |
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| Impermanence and interdependence, or seeing the world as it is | |
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| Transforming our mind on the Buddha's path | |
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| Actualizing our potential | |
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| Training our emotional life | |
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| Transforming the World | |
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| I Call for a Spiritual Revolution | |
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| We can do without religion, but not without spirituality | |
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| Spiritual revolution and ethical revolution | |
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| The sickness of duality | |
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| The disregard of interdependence by Westerners | |
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| I Do Not Believe in Ideologies | |
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| Humanity is one | |
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| Interdependence is a law of nature | |
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| A sense of responsibility is born from compassion | |
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| War is an anachronism | |
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| Everyone must assume a share of universal responsibility | |
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| My Dialogue with the Sciences | |
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| Why is a Buddhist monk interested in science? | |
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| Humanity is at a crossroads | |
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| Ethics in the sciences to save life | |
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| The tragedy of September 11, 2001, taught me that we must not separate ethics from progress | |
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| Taking Care of the Earth | |
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| Our Ecological Responsibility | |
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| As a child, I learned from my teachers to take care of the environment | |
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| The Tibet of my childhood, paradise of wildlife | |
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| In Tibet the mountains have become bald as monks' heads | |
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| Reflections of a Buddhist monk on our ecological responsibility | |
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| Our Planet Is One World | |
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| The Buddha in the Green Party! | |
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| Human rights and the environment | |
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| Mind, heart, and environment | |
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| Taking care of the Earth | |
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| Interdependence as seen from space | |
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| As the Dalai Lama | |
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| In 1959 the Dalai Lama Meets the World | |
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| I Was the Only One Who Could Win Unanimous Support | |
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| At sixteen, I become the temporal leader of Tibet | |
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| We wrongly believed that isolation would guarantee us peace | |
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| I endorse the Kashag's appeal to the United Nations | |
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| The motherland, a shameless lie | |
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| Mao's personality impressed me | |
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| March 10,1919, a day of insurrection in Lhasa | |
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| My Children, You Are the Future of Tibet | |
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| Forced exile | |
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| My priority is stopping the bloodshed | |
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| Children of hope | |
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| I am a proponent of secular democracy | |
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| Liberty, equality, and fraternity are also Buddhist principles | |
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| I love the image of swords transformed into plowshares | |
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| Human beings prefer the way of peace | |
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| What would Gandhi have done in my place? | |
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| I Appeal to All the Peoples of the World | |
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| I Denounce the Sinicization of Tibet | |
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| I ask the world not to forget that thousands of Tibetans were massacred | |
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| In the name of humanity, I appeal to all the peoples of the world | |
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| The Han-ification campaign in Tibet | |
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| Five hundred Tibetans perished while fleeing their occupied country | |
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| Tibet, Sanctuary of Peace for the World | |
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| My peoples contribution to worldpeace | |
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| I propose that Tibet become a sanctuary of ahimsa for the world | |
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| In the name of the spiritual heritage of my people | |
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| My weapons are truth, courage, and determination | |
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| Tibet is still suffering from flagrant, unimaginable human rights violations | |
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| In China, I see that change is on the way | |
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| To all my spiritual brothers and sisters in China | |
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| Conclusion: I Place My Hope in the Human Heart | |
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| We Can Only Live in Hope | |
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| Afterword: Winning Peace with the Dalai Lama by Sofia Stril-Rever | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| The Dalai Lama's Annual Speech to Commemorate the March 10,1959, Lhasa Insurrection | |
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| The Kalachakra Mandala | |
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| Index | |