Dalai Lama, Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World

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Louis Sahagun, 'Beyond Religion' by the Dalai Lama; After a lifetime of Buddhist reflection, he suggests that religion is tea to the water of compassion. Tea is nutritious, water essential. Los Angeles Times, Dec 21, 2011.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-book-20111221,0,5874091.story
(book review on His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2011)

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The author makes "what some may regard as a heretical pronouncement: You don't need religion to lead a happy and ethical life.

He writes, "When it comes to obtaining certain, direct results, it is clear that prayer cannot match the achievements of, for instance, modern science."

Note:
(a) DT Suzuki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._T._Suzuki
(鈴木 大拙 貞太郎 SUZUKI Daisetsu Teitarō; 1870 -1966; born Teitarō Suzuki; The Buddhist name Daisetsu, meaning "Great Humility", the kanji of which can also mean "Greatly Clumsy", was given to him by his Zen master Soen Shaku; In 1911 married Beatrice Erskine LANE)
(b) Allen Ginsberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsberg
(1926-1997; an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s)
(c) The publisher's page for this book:
http://www.hmhbooks.com/hmh/site ... 36351&srch=true