About the Book
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Rajiv Mehrotra, a personal student of the Dalai Lama, was educated at the universities of Delhi,
Oxford and Columbia. for over three decades he was a familiar face on public television, notebly as
the anchor of an in-depth, one-on-one talk show, In Conversations. The programme had the highest
viewership ratings in India across all television news channels in its genre. He is currently
secretary/trustee of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama,
managing trustee of the Public Service Broadcasting Trust and a trustee of the Norbulinka Institute of
Tibetan Culture. He has been a judge of the Templeton Prize for Spirituality and has served on the
governing councils of the Sri Aurobindo Society and the Film and Television Institute of India. An
independent documentary film-maker, he has won several international and nine national awards. He
was nominated a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. His other books
include: Thakur - A Biography of Sri Ramakrishna; The Essential Dalai Lama,; Understanding
The Dalai Lama; All You Ever Wanted to Know from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Happiness,
Life, Living, and Much More; and The Open Frame Reader. Unreeling the Documentary Film.
Under publication is The Spirit of the Muse.
Contents
Forword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
9
Introduction
11
The Wheel of Dharma
Ocean of Wisdom (His Holiness the Dalai Lama)
19
Through the Mirror of Death (Sogyal Rinpoche)
42
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