In this thought-provoking new book, the Dalai Lama argues that religion is not a necessity for pursuing a spiritual life. Instead, readers should focus on tolerance, and understanding between religions, as well as tolerance and understanding between believers and non-believers. Aimed at the general reader A decade later, His Holiness enters the contemporary debate about religion vs atheism, and returns to the theme of ethics with a major new work: Beyond Religion: ethics for a whole world. In this thought-provoking new book he argues that religion is not a necessity for pursuing a spiritual life.