Tibetan Book Of The Dead.

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The most graceful English translation of this masterpiece of world literature
- translated & co-edited by three leading contemporary masters of this tradition appointed by the Dalai Lama himself. Extraordinary.. .this work will be a source of inspiration & support to many". (His Holiness the Dalai Lama). One of the greatest works created by any culture & overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West " The Tibetan Book of the Dead" has had a number of distinguished translations but strangely all of these have been partial abridgements. Now the entire text has not only been made available in English but in a translation of quite remarkable clarity & beauty. A comprehensive guide to living & dying " The Tibetan Book of the Dead" contains exquisitely written guidance & practices related to transforming our experience in the daily life on the processes of dying & the after-death state & on how to help those who are dying. As originally intended this is as much a work for the living as it is for those who wish to think beyond a mere conventional lifetime to a vastly greater & grander cycle. 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 & President of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. Graham Coleman is President of the Orient Foundation (UK) a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organisation & writer/director of the acclaimed feature documentary " Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy". The introduction is written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama."