{"id":565,"date":"2022-08-20T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/?p=565"},"modified":"2022-10-03T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T14:23:37","slug":"essential-teachings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/20\/essential-teachings\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Teachings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/33-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-566\" width=\"211\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/33-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/33-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/33-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/33-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/33-1366x2048.jpg 1366w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/33.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Essential Teachings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Essential Teachings presents the first English translation of a series of talks given in 1974 by the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India\u2014the site of the Buddha\u2019s enlightenment\u2014to a gathering of Tibetan refugees and Western Buddhists. His precise and eloquent commentary on the &#8220;Path of the Bodhisattva,&#8221; one of the most important teaching texts of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, offers a step-by-step guide to thirty-seven practices designed to help cultivate the spirit of compassion for all life and service to others that is at the heart of Buddhism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Published By Souvenir Press Ltd., London, 1999<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essential Teachings Essential Teachings presents the first English translation of a series of talks given in 1974 by the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India\u2014the site of the Buddha\u2019s enlightenment\u2014to a gathering of Tibetan refugees and Western Buddhists. His precise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}