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In 1927, Walter Evans-Wentz published his translation of an obscure Tibetan Nyingma text and called it the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Popular Tibetan teacher Sogyal Rinpoche has transformed that ancient text, conveying a perennial philosophy that is at once
...(more) religious, scientific, and practical. Through extraordinary anecdotes and stories from religious traditions East and West, Rinpoche introduces the reader to the fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism, moving gradually to the topics of death and dying. Death turns out to be less of a crisis and more of an opportunity. Concepts such as reincarnation, karma, and bardo and practices such as meditation, tonglen, and phowa teach us how to face death constructively. As a result, life becomes much richer. Like Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Sogyal Rinpoche opens the door to a full experience of death. It is up to the reader to walk through. --Brian Bruya(less)
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a spiritual classic. Thurman's recent translation of this book is my favorite. Sogyal Rinpoche tells you about the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and how his tradition teaches one to live a life fully, to the max. Everyone who is now living is going to die. Everyone knows that, and sometimes you are faced with that fact quite ostensibly. This book helps you live even more fully and graciously when you are faced with your own demise or that of a loved one. It has day to day practical things to do to help you be more authentic. It is a very good read. I have returned to it several times since I first read it in 1993.