Download or read book Fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism written by Rebecca McClen Novick and published by Crossing Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tibetan, the word for Buddhist means “insider”—someone who looks not to the world but to themselves for peace and happiness. The basic premise of Buddhism is that all suffering, however real it may seem, is the product of our own minds.Rebecca Novick’s concise history of Buddhism and her explanations of the Four Noble Truths, Wheel of Life, Karma, the path of the Bodhisattva, and the four schools help us understand Tibetan Buddhism as a religion or philosophy, and more important, as a way of experiencing the world.