Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss: Ancient Knowledge for a Modern World from the Tibetan Book of the Dead - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140455450 ISBN 13: 9780140455458

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

The most graceful English translation of this masterpiece of world literature - translated and co-edited by three leading contemporary masters of this tradition, appointed by the Dalai Lama himself

What is death? How can I help those who are dying? How can I prepare for my own death? And how can I come to terms with bereavement?

Here is an accessible and moving introduction to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, whose visionary perspective on living, dying, and loss is one of the most inspirational and compelling in world literature.
With an introductory commentary by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Meditations on Living, Dying, and Loss is a compilation of writings from the first complete translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which explores these central questions. Each chapter is introduced by the editor of the acclaimed first translation, Graham Coleman. Based on his experience of bereavement and his knowledge of contemporary near-death research, he reveals the immense creativity that deepening our insight into the relationship between living and dying can bring.

Graham Coleman (co-editor) is President of the Orient Foundation (UK). Thupten Jinpa (co-editor) is the senior translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Gyurme Dorje (translator) is a leading scholar of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The introduction is written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

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Review:

Extraordinary ... this work will be a source of inspiration and support to many (His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

One of the great treasures of wisdom in the spiritual heritage of humanity (Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying)

From the Publisher:

A moving and powerful book aimed at those experiencing bereavement, offering the solace of wisdom from The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0140455450
• ISBN 13: 9780140455458
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Coleman Graham, Jinpa Thupten