'All our suffering and problems come from our ignorance, and because of ignorance we have experienced suffering and problems in life after life, since beginningless time until this life. Now is the time to abandon ignorance permanently, while we have the precious opportunity to listen to and practise Buddhadharma.

'The only method to abandon our ignorance and attain the supreme happiness of enlightenment is to accomplish the realization of the perfection of wisdom in general, and especially the realization of the higher perfection of wisdom.'

With these words Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Rinpoche introduces his extraordinary book, The New Heart of Wisdom.

Read more on this month's Featured Book page.