Ancient Wisdom, Modern World

Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the new Millennium is a book of philosophical thought written by the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and published by Little, Brown/Abacus Press in 1999. (ISBN 0-349-11443-9). It proposes a system of ethics based on universal principles as opposed to strictly religious ones and whose goal is happiness for all individuals regardless of their religious beliefs.