Born in northeastern Tibet in 1935, he was as a toddler recognized as the incarnation of the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and brought to Tibet's capital, Lhasa. He frequently describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk. Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people. Based on 2500 years of Buddhist meditations mixed with a healthy dose of common sense, The Art of Happiness is an audiobook that crosses the boundaries of all traditions to help listeners with the difficulties common to all human beings. He discusses relationships, health, family, work, and spirituality to show us how to ride through life's obstacles on a deep abiding source of inner peace. Through meditations, stories and the meeting of Buddhism and psychology, the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day-to-day depression, anxiety, anger, jealousy, or just an ordinary bad mood. He's tried to answer it before, but he's never had the help of a psychiatrist to get the message across in a context we can easily understand. The Dalai Lama is probably one of the only people in the world who if you ask him if he's happy, even though he's suffered the loss of his country, will give you an unconditional "yes." What's more, he'll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life, and that "the very motion of our life is towards happiness." How to get there has always been the question. Why is he so popular? Even after spending just a few minutes in his presence you can't help feeling just a little bit happier. He's the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, the Nobel Prize winner, and increasingly popular speaker and statesman.
And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least he's smiling.
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