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Meditations on Living, Dying, and Loss The Essential Tibetan Book of the Dead

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ISBN-10: 0143118137

ISBN-13: 9780143118138

Edition: N/A

Authors: Graham Coleman, The Dalai Lama, Gyurme Dorje, Thupten Jinpa, Thupten Jinpa

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Selections from Penguin's authoritative first complete translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead One of the most inspiration and compelling works in world literature; The Tibetan Book of the Deadpresents a visionary exploration of both the after-death state and the inner workings of our perceptual states during life. Meditations on Living, Dying, and Lossoffers selected extracts from this influential text, focusing on perspectives and insights that are the most relevant to our modern experience of life, death, and loss. Each chapter is prefaced by the editor of the acclaimed unabridged translation, Graham Coleman. Here, in his accessible and moving essays, he illuminates the text's…    
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Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.70" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

The Dalai Lama, spiritual & political leader of the Tibetan people & a Nobel Peace Laureate, has in the last decade become a global spiritual leader whose message of universal & individual responsibility has won worldwide acclaim.

Gyurme Dorje is a leading scholar of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism from which the Tibetan Book of the Dead literature derives. Thupten Jinpa is the senior translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and President of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. Graham Coleman is President of the Orient Foundation (UK), a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organisation, and writer/director of the acclaimed feature documentary Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy.

Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction
Introductory Commentary by His Holiness the XIVth Exploring the Notion of Continuity of Consciousness
Living
Song of Impermanence
Imprisoned by the Ego: A Lament
Living, Dreaming, Meditating, and Dying
Uncovering the Nature of Mind
Wisdoms, Elements, and Subtle Energies
Dying
Body and Mind Dissolving
Entering the Horizon of Light
Loss
Transforming Bereavement in the Mirror of Guidance
Glossary of Key Terms
Notes