''Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new Millennium'' is a book of philosophical thought written by the
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama (, ; ) is the head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The term is part of the full title "Holiness Knowing Everything Vajradhara Dalai Lama" (圣 识一切 瓦齐尔达喇 达赖 喇嘛) given by Altan Khan, the first Shu ...
Tenzin Gyatso and published by
Little, Brown/Abacus Press in 1999. (). It proposes a system of
ethics
Ethics is the philosophy, philosophical study of Morality, moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates Normativity, normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches inclu ...
based on universal principles as opposed to strictly religious ones and whose goal is happiness for all individuals regardless of their religious beliefs.
Eastern philosophical literature
Books by the 14th Dalai Lama
1999 non-fiction books
Abacus books
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