The Tibetan book of the dead
| Title | The Tibetan book of the dead
or, The after-death experiences on the Bardo plane |
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| Original title | Bar do thos grol. |
| Author | by W.Y. Evans-Wentz |
| Publication | Oxford Univ. Pr. |
| Size | XXXIV, 249p |
| Language |  ENG |
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| Topics |
Intermediate state--Buddhism--Early works to 1800 Death--Religious aspects--Buddhism Buddhism--Funeral rites Book of the dead--Tibetan (Bardo Thodol) |
| Notes | The Tibetan Book of Dead,has taken it to be a very free translation of Bardo Thodol (Liberation by Hearing on the after Death Plane) is among the sacred book of the world. The book is pre-eminent insight into interpretations of higher `lamaic` teachings and of the subtle esortericism underlying the Bardo Thodol. In this Oriental ideas have been put forward in a form which is intelligible to the European mind. The Occidental parallels of various mystic or occult doctrines current in Orient are frequently reffered in this book, becauseauthor`s personal experience gathered during years of wanderings chiefly in the high Himalayas and on the Tibetan frontiers of Kashmir, Garhwa and Sikkim. |
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