The Tibetan Book of the Dead Author: Padmasambhava | Language: English | ISBN:
0670858862 | Format: PDF
The Tibetan Book of the Dead Description
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"This new translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a tremendous accomplishment." -Francesca Fremantle, Buddhadarma magazine
"Profound and unique, it is one of the great treasures of wisdom in the spiritual heritage of humanity." -Sogyal Rinpoche, Author of the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
About the Author
Gyurme Dorje, Ph.D., is a leading scholar of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., is the senior translator to His Holiness The Dalai Lama and president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics.
- Hardcover: 592 pages
- Publisher: Viking Adult; Lst American Ed edition (January 19, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0670858862
- ISBN-13: 978-0670858866
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.4 x 2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead edited by Graham Coleman, Thupten Jinpa, translated by Gyurme Dorje (Viking) is by far the most popular example of indigenous Tibetan Buddhist treasure literature. An edition was issued in 1927 by Oxford University Press under the general editorship of W. Y. Evans-Wentz. The block-print copy, he used was an abridgment obtained in Nepal and translated by a Tibetan lama. Evans-Wentz was a scholarly Theosophist who imported certain Theosophical preconceptions into his commentary on the work. Carl Jung the prominent analytical psychologist even wrote a psychological commentary on the work prompted by Evans-Wentz. Since the 1970s, beginning with Francesca Fremantle and Chogyam Trungpa's edition of the text and more recently Robert Thurman's translation, corrected versions of the Tibetan Book of the Dead are well represented in English and other European languages. The mistakes and egregious errors of the pioneering edition have been corrected and Tibetan Buddhism now in America and Europe has been flourishing with many translations and commentaries on basic Buddhist practices as well as the indigenous literatures of Tibet.
This new edition by Graham Coleman and Thupten Jinpa uses a fuller edition of the work for translating, adding new chapters and reflecting the interpretation of contemporary masters and lineage holders of this tradition. In many ways this is the first complete The Tibetan Book of the Dead. In many ways this book is both a guide for living as well as a how to consciously move on after death. The book has been extremely popular in Central Asia among Buddhists.
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