{"id":939,"date":"2022-09-23T05:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/?p=939"},"modified":"2022-09-23T05:30:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T05:30:57","slug":"my-spiritual-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/2022\/09\/23\/my-spiritual-autobiography\/","title":{"rendered":"My Spiritual Autobiography"},"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\/8-2-651x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-940\" width=\"326\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8-2-651x1024.jpg 651w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8-2-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/dragyur.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/8-2.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>My Spiritual Autobiography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is a compilation of unpublished texts of the Dalai Lama, which is accompanied by comments from the translator and collaborator of the Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever. Initially, the book was published in French, and in 2010 it became available translated and published in English and Russian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The title &#8220;My spiritual autobiography&#8221; may be a little misleading, for in some ways the book does not resemble an autobiography.The book identifies three characteristics \u2013 his Compassionate motivation, lack of self-importance and flexibility of mind \u2013 while showing the internal coherence of the Dalai Lama&#8217;s views in their temporal development, and the continuity of these points of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is composed of three parts.The first considers universal questions; in the second, the Dalai Lama -as a Buddhist Monk- expressed his hopes for the spiritual transformation of the world through the transformation of each person&#8217;s mind, and the third provides a History of the Dalai Lama, spiritual master of the Tibetan people, and 14th Dalai Lama&#8217;s life in exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book ends with a poem, &#8216;Never Give Up&#8217;, written by the American writer Ron Whitehead in 1994, inspired by the Dalai Lama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Published By HarperOne, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Spiritual Autobiography The book is a compilation of unpublished texts of the Dalai Lama, which is accompanied by comments from the translator and collaborator of the Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever. Initially, the book was published in French, and in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939"}],"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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":941,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions\/941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dragyur.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}