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Author Zla-ba-bsam-'grub, Kazi, 1868-1922.

Title The Tibetan book of the dead : or, The after-death experiences on the Bardo plane, according to Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering / compiled and edited by W.T. Evans-Wentz ; with a new foreword and afterword by Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  294.3 K146    In Transit +1 HOLD
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  294.3423 Z82T    Check Shelf
Description lxxxiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256) and index.
Summary "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 are constantly being discovered and rediscovered by Western readers of many different backgrounds - a phenomenon which began in 1927 with Oxford's first edition of Dr. Evans-Wentz's landmark volume. While it is traditionally used as a mortuary text, to be read or recited in the presence of a dead or dying person, this book - which relates the whole experience of death and rebirth in three intermediate states of being - was originally understood as a guide not only for the dead but also for the living. As a contribution to the science of death and dying - not to mention the belief in life after death, or the belief in texts of the world, for its socio-cultural influence in this regard is without comparison."--Jacket.
Subject Intermediate state -- Buddhism -- Early works to 1800.
Death -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism -- Early works to 1800.
Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Early works to 1800.
Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies. (OCoLC)fst01727598
Death -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism. (OCoLC)fst00888653
Intermediate state -- Buddhism. (OCoLC)fst01751420
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. (OCoLC)fst01758817
Dood.
Sterven.
Hiernamaals.
Genre/Form Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
Added Author Evans-Wentz, W. Y. (Walter Yeeling), 1878-1965.
Added Title Bar do thos grol. English
After-death experiences on the Bardo plane, according to Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering
ISBN 0195133110
9780195133110
0195133129 (pbk.)
9780195133127 (pbk.)
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