The Book of Joy

Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

Author  Dalai Lama , Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams
The Book of Joy

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Two great spiritual masters share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even in the face of adversity.


The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together for a talk about something very important to them. The friends were His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The subject was joy. Both winners of the Nobel Prize, both great spiritual masters and moral leaders of our time, they are also known for being among the most infectiously happy people on the planet, despite having experienced great personal and national suffering.
     From the beginning the book was envisioned as a three-layer birthday cake, the first being their personal stories and teachings about joy.…