For three days in 1988, at Roseland Auditorium in New York City, His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama delivered a discourse on the three principle elements of the wisdom path in Mahayana Buddhism. A four-tape collection, In the Spirit of Manjushri: The Wisdom Teachings of Buddhism, with commentary from famed American Buddhist scholar Robert A.F. Thurman, was the result. On this video, part one, the Dalai Lama introduces the background necessary for understanding the ancient teachings on emptiness. ~ Sean Hurley, Rovi