# Beyond Religion

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- Authors: [14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso](https://www.bookquiver.com/dalai-lama)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-04-19

## Description

In 1999 His Holiness The Dalai Lama published the bestselling Ancient Wisdom: Modern World , which addressed the question of ethics for the new millennium. A decade later, His Holiness enters the contemporary debate about religion vs atheism, and returns to the theme of ethics with a major new work: Beyond Religion: ethics for a whole world. In this thought-provoking new book he argues that religion is not a necessity for pursuing a spiritual life. Rather, focusing on tolerance and understanding between religions , as well as tolerance and understanding between believers (of any faith) and non-believers is the way forward. The way to achieve such an approach, he proposes, is through a system of secular ethics grounded in a deep appreciation of our common humanity. Aimed particularly at the general reader, Beyond Religion: ethics for a whole world is a modern-day polemic which outlines those ethics he believes should be central to our lives.

## Editions

### Beyond Religion

- Publisher: rider
- ISBN: 978-18-4604-310-9
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2013-01-03
- Language: en_GB

### Beyond Religion

- Publisher: ebury_digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 5 h 21 min
- ISBN: 978-14-4814-635-2
- Published: 2012-04-19
- Language: en_GB