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    <title>meaning of life</title>
    <subTitle>Buddhist perspectives on cause &amp; effect</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho</namePart>
    <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Dalai Lama XIV</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1935-</namePart>
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    <namePart>Hopkins, Jeffrey.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Gere, Richard</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1949-</namePart>
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    <extent>viii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>Each of us struggles with the existential question of meaning, purpose, and responsability. In The meaning of life, The Dalai Lama examines these questions from the BUddhist perspective, skillfully  guiding us to a clearer understanding that can liberate ud from the prison of selfishness and suffering.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama ; translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-141) and index.</note>
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    <topic>Causation (Buddhism)</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Karma</topic>
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    <topic>Religious life</topic>
    <topic>Buddhism</topic>
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