A distillation of the acclaimed English translation of a revered Tibetan classicThe Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist writings in the West and one of the most inspirational and compelling texts in world literature. In Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss, Graham Coleman, the editor of Viking's acclaimed unabridged translation of ...

Manufacturer: Findaway World

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings. Now, in the form of the ever-popular Tibetan Book of the Dead, these teachings ...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Written By: W. Y. Evans-Wentz

The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa brings together in eight volumes the writings of one of the first and most influential and inspirational Tibetan teachers to present Buddhism in the West. Organized by theme, the collection includes full-length books as well as articles, seminar transcripts, poems, plays, and interviews, many of which have never before been available in book form. ...

Manufacturer: Shambhala
Written By: Chogyam Trungpa

In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular imagination, and is now considered a classic of spiritual literature. Over the ...

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Written By: Bryan J. Cuevas

One of the 25 most influential people in America according to Time Magazine, and ?the leading American expert on Tibetan Buddhism? (The New York Times), Robert Thurman illuminates the Tibetan Book of the Dead with up-to-date insights for modern audiences. For centuries, this text has been read aloud to the dying?who Buddhist masters say are capable of hearing up to three days after clinical ...

Manufacturer: Sounds True, Incorporated
Written By: Robert Thurman

Este es un clásico de la sabiduría budista y del pensamiento religioso. Es un libro de instrucciones para que el moribundo transite en un estado intermedio que se encuentra entre una muerte y un renacimiento. Su profundo mensaje es que el arte de morir es tan importante como el de vivir y nos muestra los funcionamientos de la mente en sus diversas manifestaciones: aterradoras y ...

Manufacturer: Downtown Book Center
Written By: Thodol Bardo

This book offers the beginning and intermediate student a single-volume overview to the W.Y.Evans-Wentz Oxford Tibetan Series. It covers all four volumes - The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa, Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines and the Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, with all key information in list and outline format. Samos Samon's Study Guide also covers Wentz's ...

Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Written By: Samos Sanon

Ancient guide through the process from death to rebirth, a spiritual journey that can take up to 49 days, shorter if the guide is followed carefully and well.

Manufacturer: lulu.com
Written By: Frank Machovec

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Awakening Upon Dying, with introductory commentary by Dzogchen Buddhist master Chogyal Namkhai Norbu, is a new translation of the ancient text also known as The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate State. Both a practical guide and intriguing historical, cultural, and spiritual document, this new version incorporates recent discoveries ...

Manufacturer: North Atlantic Books
Written By: Padmasambhava, Karma Lingpa

The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Reading Aloud is famed playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie’s poetic adaptation of traditional Tibetan passages used to aid and comfort at the time of death. His lyrical and insightful poetry is accompanied by Gerry Vezzuso’s vivid photographs, Tibetan art, and other images evocative of this process. This text leads us through the stages we experience ...

Manufacturer: North Atlantic Books