The Tibetan Book Of The Dead
The Spiritual Meditation Guide For Liberation And The After-Death Experiences On The Bardo Plane

It was a hard slugging away at the heightened language but well worth my persistence. Many of the thoughts about life and death have stayed with me since I read it the first time 65 years ago. Valuable insights now that I'm 80 and death is looking for me. I intend on reading a modern translated vers......more

Important deluxe edition of a new translation of the full version. This book is not a toy, so it's predictable that a lot of readers will get little or nothing out it, especially if they are looking for entertainment/amusement or a highspeed broadband route to 'enlightenment'. It is a bit like a per......more

I'm one of those delinquent Buddhists who does not formally practice his faith. I started reading this 30 years ago and recently, after a health scare, picked it up again. Life, it is said, is a terminal disease. You always die from it. There are no overwhelming revelations here, just a wonderfully c......more

I am doing a personal comparative study of this and the Egyptian book of the dead simultaneously. After the first two read throughs of this work I was extremely glad for the notes and appendixes provided for the study. I adore Tibetan Buddhism as a religion and culture and can relate very well to th......more

The life of a book is always subjective; the death of ego in reading, objective. "Is" is always/mostly Maybe. My first near death experience came via a broken neck while diving into a desert reservoir in Grandview, ID, (Black Sands Beach) August '91 instantaneously paralyzing me from neck down, felt......more