Book Review: Toward a True Kinship of Faiths

This is a book written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama about how the world's religions can come together. I love this mission that the Dalai Lama has taken upon himself to help in the uniting of the world's religions. I think it is a very just and noble cause, and that if more people could embrace these ideas, many of the world's conflicts and even wars could be avoided.

He starts out writing about his own experience growing up in an all Buddhist  community and thinking that his own religion must be the best. But in later years, and especially with his eventual exile in India, he came in contact with many other religions and began to understand just how deep, spiritual, and powerful the beliefs of each of these religions were. As he learned about these other religions he found that within practically all religions there is a strong belief based in showing compassion and love to others. However, this idea seems to clash with a lot of the ways people treat each other in these days because of differences in religion. This is not right, and something should be done to fix this. There is no easy way of convincing everyone to get along, but if enough individuals can adopt these ideas and demonstrate them for others, it is possible to make a change and to bring the world's religions closer together.