The release date for the English version of 'The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World' by
Dalai Lama XIV is Sep 2016. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Two renowned spiritual teachers impart their own hard-won knowledge on finding pleasure in the midst of hardship.
It was a significant birthday. And it motivated two close friends to meet for a conversation about something extremely important to them in Dharamsala. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu were the buddies. It was about pleasure. In addition to being two Nobel laureates, renowned spiritual guides, and ethical trailblazers of our day, they are renowned for being among of the world's most contagiously joyful individuals.
The book was originally intended to be a three-layer birthday cake, consisting of the authors' personal tales and lessons on joy, the most current discoveries in the field of deep happiness research, and the routines that ground their own spiritual and emotional life. Great personal and national suffering has tried both the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu; here, they relate their own tales of struggle and regeneration. Being in their eighties, they are particularly motivated to share the central idea that in order to be happy oneself, one must be happy for other people.
Above all, they showed by their own joy, kindness, and wit during that historic week in Dharamsala how joy might be turned from a transient feeling into a permanent way of life.