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Into the jaws of Yama, lord of death : Buddhism, bioethics, and death
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ISBN: 079148145X 1429411902 9781429411905 0791468313 0791468321 9780791468319 9780791468326 9780791481455 Year: 2006 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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"This book explores the Buddhist view of death and its implications for contemporary bioethics. Writing primarily from within the Tibetan tradition, author Karma Lekshe Tsomo discusses Buddhist notions of human consciousness and personal identity and how these figure in the Buddhist view of death. Beliefs about death and enlightenment and states between life and death are also discussed. Tsomo goes on to examine such hot-button topics as cloning, abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, organ donation, genetic engineering, and stem-cell research within a Buddhist context, introducing new ways of thinking about these highly controversial issues."--Jacket

Dying Well : a Guide to Enabling a Good Death
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ISBN: 1315378639 1138030430 1280746025 9786610746026 9781138030435 1857759400 9781857759402 9781315378633 9781280746024 6610746028 9781315358413 1315358417 Year: 2018 Publisher: CRC Press,

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Death in Asia : from India to Mongolia
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ISBN: 1624120644 9781624120640 9781624120541 1624120547 Year: 2015 Publisher: Irvine, California : Seoul Selection,

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All of the world's religions refer to death in some way. Everyone is somewhat familiar with stories about where we go or what happens to us after death. From an early age, we have all heard stories of heaven or hell or some other version of paradise. Many of us believed such stories, and a great number of us still do. When considering that such stories manage to persist in modern times, an age of science and logic, we can be sure that death is an issue to which humans attach great importance. In a sense, the idea of an afterlife can be a great source of comfort to those whose death is imminent, as well as to their loved ones. Those who have led especially difficult lives can look forward to a more pleasant world, while those who have enjoyed happiness and abundance have the chance to experience more good fortune. To those left behind, the idea of an afterlife presents the chance to meet a loved one again. We may not be conscious of it, but such hopes and expectations stay with us throughout our lives. If such an afterlife does exist, then there is no reason to avoid or fear death. Moreover, if we believe that another life awaits us, then we would believe that we are only separated from our loved ones temporarily before being reunited with them later on.

Nearing death awareness : a guide to the language, visions and dreams of the dying
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ISBN: 1281105732 9786611105730 1846426065 9781846426063 9781281105738 9781843108573 Year: 2007 Publisher: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers,

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'In Nearing Death Awareness , Mary Anne Sanders has provided a well thought out anthology covering the different aspects of, and sometimes names given to, the concept of Nearing Death Awareness. This book should provide clear, concise information and comfort to those who read it.'. - Maggie Callanan, co-author of Final Gifts. Dying is a complex experience for the dying person and their family, friends, and carers, that involves all aspects of what it means to be human: physical, mental, and spiritual. The author describes different types of Nearing Death Awareness (NDA), including visions, dre


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Discourses on aging and dying
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ISBN: 9352801083 8132111893 128196350X 9786611963507 8132100123 9788132100126 9788132111894 9789352801084 6611963502 Year: 2008 Publisher: Los Angeles SAGE Publications

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This text looks at the subject of aging and dying, and contains sections on spiritual perspectives, issues in the care of the elderly, and end-of-life care.

The Tibetan book of the dead; : or, The after-death experiences on the Bardo plane, according to Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering
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ISBN: 1280833416 0198030517 9780198030515 9780195133127 0195133129 0195133110 0195133129 9780195133110 0199839514 019774172X 9780199839513 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings. Now, in the form of the ever-popular Tibetan Book of the Dead, these teachings are constantly being discovered and rediscovered by Western readers of many different backgrounds--a phenomenon which began in 1927 with Oxford's first edition of Dr. Evans-Wentz's landmark volume. While it is traditio

Death, ecstasy, and other worldly journeys
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ISBN: 0585062706 9780585062709 079142345X 0791423468 0791499545 9780791499542 Year: 1995 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] State University of New York Press

The rituals and myths of the feast of the goodly gods of KTU/CAT 1.23 : royal constructions of opposition, intersection, integration, and domination
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ISBN: 1589833163 1429413735 9781429413732 9781589832039 1589832035 1589832035 9781589833166 Year: 2006 Publisher: Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature,

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Text of the work known as The birth of the beautiful gods, in parallel columns: Ugaritic (romanized) and English (p. 18-25), with commentary and discussion in English.


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Funerals in Africa : explorations of a social phenomenon
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ISBN: 1782381287 9781782381280 9780857452054 9780857452061 0857452061 0857452053 1782381295 9781782381297 1283326507 9781283326506 9786613326508 661332650X Year: 2011 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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Across Africa, funerals and events remembering the dead have become larger and even more numerous over the years. Whereas in the West death is normally a private and family affair, in Africa funerals are often the central life cycle event, unparalleled in cost and importance, for which families harness vast amounts of resources to host lavish events for multitudes of people with ramifications well beyond the event. Though officials may try to regulate them, the popularity of these events often makes such efforts fruitless, and the elites themselves spend tremendously on funerals.

Ibn al-Arabi's Barzakh : the concept of the limit and the relationship between God and the world
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ISBN: 0791484343 1423739574 9781423739579 9780791484340 9780791462270 0791462277 Year: 2004 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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This book explores how Ibn al-'Arabi (1165–1240) used the concept of barzakh (the Limit) to deal with the philosophical problem of the relationship between God and the world, a major concept disputed in ancient and medieval Islamic thought. The term "barzakh" indicates the activity or actor that differentiates between things and that, paradoxically, then provides the context of their unity. Author Salman H. Bashier looks at early thinkers and shows how the synthetic solutions they developed provided the groundwork for Ibn al-'Arabi's unique concept of barzakh. Bashier discusses Ibn al-'Arabi's development of the concept of barzakh ontologically through the notion of the Third Thing and epistemologically through the notion of the Perfect Man, and compares Ibn al-'Arabi's vision with Plato's.

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Creation (Islam) --- Intermediate state --- Islam. --- Ibn al-ʻArabī, --- Andalusi, Mehmet bin Ali, --- Ibn al-ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, --- Ibn ʻArabî, --- Ibn ʻArabi, Mohyiddin, --- İbn Arabî, Muhittin, --- Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, --- Ibn ʻArabī, Muḥyiddīn, --- Ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī --- Ibn Surāqah, --- İbnʼül-arabî, Muhyiddîn, --- Magribi, Mehmet bin Ali, --- Mohyiddin ibn ʻArabi, --- Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn, --- Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn al-ʻArabī, --- Muhittin i̇bn Arabî, --- Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, --- Muhiy al Din ibn Arabi, --- Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ʻArabī, --- Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn al-ʻArabī, --- Muḥyī al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī ibn ʻArabī, --- Muḥyiddīn ibn ʻArabī, --- Muhyiddîn İbnʼül-arabî, --- Raʼīs al-Ṣūfīyah, --- Şeyh-i ekberi, --- Shaykh al-Akbar, --- Taʼi, Mehmet bin Ali, --- T̤āʼī Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī, --- Undlusī ibn-i ʻArabī, Muḥīuddīn Muḥammad bin ʻAlī T̤āʼī, --- Ibnu Arabi, Muhyiddin, --- ابن العربي، --- ابن عربي --- ابن عربي، --- بن العربي --- لإبن العربي، --- محيى الدين بن عربي --- Ibn al-Arabi,

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