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The Tibetan book of the dead the great liberation by hearing in the intermediate states [Tibetan title]

Reflecting the insights and intentions of the original work, this text includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state and practices that transform the experience of daily life and the process of dying.

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Main Author: Karma-gliṅ-pa, active 14th century
Other Authors: Padma Sambhava, approximately 717-approximately 762, Gyurme Dorje, Coleman, Graham, Thupten Jinpa, Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin, 2007.
Edition:Penguin Classics deluxe ed.
Subjects:
Intermediate state > Buddhism > Early works to 1800.
Death > Religious aspects > Buddhism > Early works to 1800.
Spiritual life > Buddhism > Early works to 1800.
Buddhism > China > Tibet Autonomous Region > Doctrines > Early works to 1800.
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Summary:Reflecting the insights and intentions of the original work, this text includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state and practices that transform the experience of daily life and the process of dying.
Item Description:Translation of: Bar do thos grol.
This translation originally published : London : Penguin Books Ltd., 2005.
"First complete translation."
Physical Description:li, 535 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 436-442) and index.
ISBN:9780143104940
0143104942
Author Notes:Gyurme Dorje (PhD) is a leading scholar of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. His seven major publications include works on Tibetan lexicography, medicine, divination and pilgrimage guides to Tibet and Bhutan, as well as translations of HH Dudjom Rinpoche's The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism .

Graham Coleman is President of the Orient Foundation (UK), a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organization. Writer/director of the acclaimed feature documentary Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy and editor of the Handbook of Tibetan Culture , he has been editing Tibetan Buddhist poetry and prose texts in cooperation with various distinguished translators since the mid-1970s.

Thupten Jinpa (Phd) is the senior translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and President of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. His works include the translation of twelve books by the Dalai Lama, such as the New York Times bestseller Ethics for a New Millennium and The Universe in a Single Atom , the Dalai Lama's perspective on the meeting of Buddhism and modern science.

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