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Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Contributor(s): Dorje, Gyurme (Translator), Coleman, Graham (Editor), Jinpa, Thupten (Editor), Dalai Lama (Commentaries by)

ISBN: 9780143104940

Publisher: Penguin Classics

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Pub Date: February 1, 2007

Dewey: 294.3423

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 1.55" H x 8.44" L x 5.56" W ( 1.42 lbs) 592 pages

BISAC Categories:

Religion | Buddhism | Tibetan | Philosophy | Buddhist

Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

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Description: 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.

Review Quotes: "This new translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a tremendous accomplishment. The whole text is a vast source of inspiration." --Francesca Fremantle, Buddhadharma magazine

"The most celebrated and widely read work of Tibetan literature outside Tibet . . . now in its finest and most complete form in this excellent English translation." --Bryan J. Cuevas, Tricycle

"Profound and unique, it is one of the great treasures of wisdom in the spiritual heritage of humanity." --Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

One of the great scripts of world civilization . . . a voyage inside the profound imagination of a people, immaculately rendered in an English both graceful and precise. --Time Out (London)

Magnificent . . . beautiful verse meditations. --The Guardian (London)

I hope that the profound insights contained in this work will be a source of inspiration and support to many interested people around the world. --His Holiness The Dalai Lama

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