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Автор Дэвид Мичи

ALSO BY DAVID MICHIE

Fiction

The Dalai Lama’s Cat*

The Dalai Lama’s Cat and the Art of Purring*

Conflict of Interest

Pure Deception

Expiry Date

The Magician of Lhasa

Nonfiction

The Invisible Persuaders:

How Britain’s Spin Doctors Manipulate the Media

Buddhism for Busy People:

Finding Happiness in an Uncertain World

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Your Starter Kit for Inner Peace and Better Health

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Compassion to Transform Your Life

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*Available from Hay House

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Cover design: Amy Rose Grigoriou

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic recording; nor may it be stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be copied for public or private use—other than for “fair use” as brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews—without prior written permission of the publisher.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Michie, David.

   The Dalai Lama’s cat and the power of meow / David Michie. -- 1st edition.

     pages cm

   ISBN 978-1-4019-4624-1 (paperback)

 1. Bstan-’dzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935---Fiction. 2. Cats--Fiction. 3. Buddhism--Fiction.

4. Buddhist philosophy--Fiction. 5. Religious fiction. lcsh I. Title.

 PR6063. I223D3535 2014

 823’. 92--dc23

2014044653

Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-4019-4624-1

10   9   8   7   6   5   4   3   2   1

1st edition, June 2015

Printed in the United States of America

I have lived with several Zen masters—all of them cats.

ECKHART TOLLE, AUTHOR OF THE POWER OF NOW

Mind is the forerunner of all actions.

All deeds are led by mind, created by mind.

If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows,

As surely as one’s shadow.

BUDDHA, THE DHAMMAPADA

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

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