Meditations on Living, Dying, and Loss: The Essential Tibetan Book of the Dead

by Graham Coleman (Editor), Graham Coleman (Introduction), Dalai Lama (Introduction), Gyurme Dorje (Translator), Thupten Jinpa (Editor)

Overview

Selections from Penguin's authoritative first complete translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead

One of the most inspirational and compelling works in world literature, The Tibetan Book of the Dead presents a visionary exploration of both the after-death state and the inner workings of our perceptual states during life.

Meditations on Living, Dying, and Loss offers selected extracts from this influential text, focusing on perspectives and insights that are the most relevant to our modern experience of life, death, and loss. Each chapter is prefaced by the editor of the acclaimed unabridged translation, Graham Coleman. Here, in his accessible and moving essays, he illuminates the text's secrets, revealing the immense creativity that deepening our insight into the relationship between living and dying can bring.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780143118138
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/30/2010
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Gyurme Dorje, Ph.D., is a leading scholar of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., is the senior translator to His Holiness The Dalai Lama and president of the Institute of Tibetan Classics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Editor's Introduction xiii

Introductory Commentary by His Holiness the XIVth Exploring the Notion of Continuity of Consciousness Dalai Lama xxv

Living

Song of Impermanence 3

Imprisoned by the Ego: A Lament 11

Living, Dreaming, Meditating, and Dying 21

Uncovering the Nature of Mind 31

Wisdoms, Elements, and Subtle Energies 53

Dying

Body and Mind Dissolving 69

Entering the Horizon of Light 83

Loss

Transforming Bereavement in the Mirror of Guidance 99

Glossary of Key Terms 147

Notes 187