About the editor: quoting from the book's back cover, "The Fourteenth Dalai Lama is the religious and political leader of Tibet. He is the author of many books. . .Daniel Goleman, Stephen Levine, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Daniel Brown, Jack Engler, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, and Joanna Macy [who all participated in the dialogues contained within this work] are well-known psychotherapists and helping professionals." About this book: quoting from the book's back cover, "These fresh, spirited dialogues offer the reader deep insight into the nature of suffering, compassion, and liberation. During three days in October 1989 in Southern California, the Dalai Lama and seven highly accomplished panelists engaged one another about critical issues of our time--inner city violence, the Vietnam War and its aftermath, the teacher-student relationship, environmental destruction, the role of women, and more."