Reviews of Change of Heart
"An ordinary being cannot even begin to fathom the infinite compassionate action of a bodhisattva, so only a bodhisattva can provide such guidance. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche in my opinion was a true bodhisattva who worked tirelessly to eliminate suffering in many different parts of the world. I rejoice that his teachings have been compiled into this book and it is my aspiration that every single word of his will be put into practice."
-Dzongsar Khyentse
Buddhist teacher and founder of Siddhartha's Intent
"Chagdud Rinpoche was an outstanding Buddhist master. In Change of Heart he hands us an extraordinary gift-a wise and gentle guide to the compassionate path of the 'bodhisattvas'. Confronting directly the dilemmas and uncertainty facing people today, Rinpoche shows how anyone at all can follow this training, and use its methods to discover inner peace, reduce suffering, deal with violence and aggression, awaken the Good Heart and so live in the world in such a way as to benefit all those around them."
-Sogyal Rinpoche
Author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
"Change of Heart offers a deceptively quiet conversation about profound potential transformations in ourselves and in our efforts to bring peace and justice to our world. In these teachings every social activist acquainted with sadness, despair, and rage will be challenged to find renewal and hope."
-Ann Jones
Author and activist
"If you don’t want to change the world, don’t read this book. If you want to change the world, but not yourself, don’t read this book. These pages offer simple practices that change hearts—yours first. In return, it offers one, certain truth: changed hearts change everything else."
-Phil Steger
Executive Director, Friends for a Non-Violent World
"Dialogues brimming with insight, respect, and the personal responsibility of transforming the self form the core of this powerful and very welcome addition to … reading lists and reference collections."
-Midwest Book Review
"Most of the book adopts a question-and-answer format, with dialogue taken from transcripts of Tulku's real training seminars. This give-and-take is an inherent part of the book's success in illuminating difficult teachings and placing them into some kind of practical context. …it coheres very well as a seamless whole."
-Publisher’s Weekly
