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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.3422
EAN: 9780062508348
ISBN: 0062508342
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 425
Publication Date: 1994-04-22
Publisher: HarperOne
Product Release Date: 1994-03-17
Studio: HarperOne

In 1927, Walter Evans-Wentz published his translation of an obscure Tibetan Nyingma text and called it the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Popular Tibetan teacher Sogyal Rinpoche has transformed that ancient text, conveying a perennial philosophy that is at once religious, scientific, and practical. Through extraordinary anecdotes and stories from religious traditions East and West, Rinpoche introduces the reader to the fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism, moving gradually to the topics of death and dying. Death turns out to be less of a crisis and more of an opportunity. Concepts such as reincarnation, karma, and bardo and practices such as meditation, tonglen, and phowa teach us how to face death constructively. As a result, life becomes much richer. Like Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Sogyal Rinpoche opens the door to a full experience of death. It is up to the reader to walk through. --Brian Bruya

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Breaking down the barriers of mind
Review: When I first read this book I found it "very" hard going. As I recognised fairly early on the path, the more difficult something is, the more you have to gain by facing it head on. This book was really the first book that taught me true compassion. Persevere with this book, read it again and again, and you may just find that your whole view of the universe and reality has shifted to something far, far better.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Fantastic
Review: It is great book, loving it. good condition and good postage time. Extremely happy with it

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "must reading"
Review: This is an outstanding book for everybody who is a serious follower of Buddhist philosophy and possibly has also read books by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Very much recommended as a gift also for younger people.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: WISDOM FOR ALL OF US, WHETHER LIVING, DYING, OR GRIEVING
Review: Stepping Off the Edge: Learning & Living Spiritual Practice
Stunning book presenting Tibetan Buddhist philosophy in an easily understood and moving way. I bought this to help myself as I grieved for my mother. I couldn't put it down. Buddhists say you can know only two things for sure in life: 1. You will die. and 2. You don't know when. Makes the time you have on earth very poignant.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Well Worth Reading
Review: This book started me on the Buddhist path years ago because it was so powerful. It's an amazing account of Life and Death and how each of us can look at Death in a whole new light. Since the first day I read this at a teen I have thought of it often and return to it from time to time. After all these years I'm still a Buddhist and haven't looked back. I think everyone ought to read this book.

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