One of the most revered figures in Tibetan Buddhism is Shandideva, a monk who, in the eighth century, wrote the world’s first self-help book: Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life. So extraordinary is this book that even today, fourteen centuries later, we can take it off the shelf, browse randomly through a few ve…
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