EAN: 9780140455267

PENGUIN CLASSICS THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD...

The most graceful English translation of this masterpiece of world literature - prepared with
the participation of the Dalai Lama and eminent contemporary masters of this tradition
appointed by the Dalai LamaOne of the greatest works created by any culture and one of the most
influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West  The Tibetan Book of the Dead has had a
number of distinguished translations  but strangely all of these have been partial
abridgements. Now the entire text has not only been made available in English but in a
translation of quite remarkable clarity and beauty. A comprehensive guide to living and dying 
The Tibetan Book of the Dead contains exquisitely written guidance and practices related to
transforming our experience in daily life  on the processes of dying and the after-death state
and on how to help those who are dying. As originally intended this is as much a work for the
living  as it is for those who wish to think beyond a mere conventional lifetime to a vastly
greater and grander cycle.'Extraordinary ... this work will be a source of inspiration and
support to many' His Holiness the Dalai LamaAbout the authors:Commentary by His Holiness the
Dalai Lama. Thupten Jinpa is the senior translator to the Dalai Lama and President of the
Institute of Tibetan Classics. Graham Coleman is founder of the Orient Foundation for Arts and
Culture  a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organization  and writer-director of the
acclaimed feature documentary Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy. Gyurme Dorje is a leading scholar of
the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism  from which the Tibetan Book of the Dead literature
derives.

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