The Dalai Lama and Paul Eliman – Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles to Emotio

-A rich feast for the mind This is a singular meeting of two intellectual traditions–and two remarkable minds and hearts. -•Daniel Goleman

-A fresh, unique exploration of many subtle issues on psychology and Buddhism Full of unexpected humor and tender surprises They gently probe each other’s system of thought with striking intellectual rigor. -•Shambhala Sun

-Their conversations touch on questions of emotional balance, anger, and the range and limits of compassion, but a brief review can hardly do justice to the range and depth of this fine book. -•Library Journal

Tenzin Gyatzo, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the temporal and spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the head of the Tibetan government in exile. The author of  The Art of Happiness, among other books, he resides in Dharamsala, India.

Paul Ekman  is the world’s foremost expert on facial expressions, a professor emeritus at the University of California in San Francisco, and the author of  Emotions Revealed. He has served as an adviser to police departments, antiterrorism groups, and animation studios, and Ekman’s research inspired  Lie to Me,  the FOX TV series.  He lives in northern California.