Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism

The basic premise of Buddhism is that all suffering, however real it may seem, is the product of our own minds. In Tibetan, the word for Buddhist means “insider”—someone who looks not to the world, but to themselves for happiness and peace. Rebecca Novick’s concise history of Buddhism and her explanations of the Four Noble Truths, Wheel of Life, Karma, the path of the Bodhisattva, and the four schools help us understand Tibetan Buddhism as a religion or philosophy, and more important, as a way of experiencing the world.