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Books

An Appeal to the World by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Ian Robinson has a brief look at the Dalai Lama’s brief message to the world.

It is with considerable diffidence and not a little humility that I embark on a review of a book written by the Dalai Lama. It’s a bit like reviewing God, or the Queen. This is a man who has spent many hours every day for over seventy years meditating on the human condition, contemplating the complexity and simplicity of the world, seeking out the truth of existence. Who am I to sit in judgement on his conclusions?

Given this, it comes as a great relief to discover that in this book the Dalai Lama reaches exactly the same conclusion I have. That conclusion is stated baldly in the opening paragraph: “For thousands of years, violence has been committed and justified in the name of religion.

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