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Portrait of a Dalai Lama : the life and times of the great Thirteenth
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ISBN: 086171055X Year: 1987 Publisher: London Wisdom

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L'Essence perlée du secret : recherches philologiques et historiques sur l'origine de la Grande Perfection dans la tradition 'rNying ma pa'
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ISBN: 2503509649 9782503509648 Year: 2000 Volume: 107 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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Het Tibetaanse dodenboek volgens Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's Engelse vertaling van het Bardo Thödol
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ISBN: 9020247786 Year: 1973 Publisher: Deventer Ankh-Hermes

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Les fondements de la mystique tibétaine d'après les enseignements du grand mantra om mani padme hûm
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ISBN: 222600260X 9782226002600 Year: 1960 Volume: 21 Publisher: Paris: Albin Michel,

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Dalai Lama: biografie
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ISBN: 9025955584 Year: 2005 Publisher: Kampen Ten Have

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The Tibetan book of the dead, or The after-death experiences on the Bardo plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's english rendering
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ISBN: 0195002237 9780195002232 Year: 1978 Volume: 39 Publisher: London: Oxford university press,


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Foundations of Tibetan mysticism : according to the esoteric teachings of the Great Mantra, Om Mani Padme Hūm
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ISBN: 0090520416 0090520416 Year: 1969 Publisher: London : Rider,

The hidden history of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
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ISBN: 0195154134 9780195154139 Year: 2003 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular imagination, and is now considered a classic of spiritual literature. Over the years, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has inspired numerous commentaries, an illustrated edition, a play, a video series, and even an opera. Translators, scholars, and popular devotees of the book have claimed to explain its esoteric ideas and reveal its hidden meaning. Few, however, have uttered a word about its history. Bryan J. Cuevas seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by offering the first comprehensive historical study of the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo, and by grounding it firmly in the context of Tibetan history and culture. He begins by discussing the many ways the texts have been understood (and misunderstood) by westerners, beginning with its first editor, the Oxford-educated anthropologist Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, and continuing through the present day. The remarkable fame of the book in the west, Cuevas argues, is strikingly disproportionate to how the original Tibetan texts were perceived in their own country. Cuevas tells the story of how The Tibetan Book of the Dead was compiled in Tibet, of the lives of those who preserved and transmitted it, and explores the history of the rituals through which the life of the dead is imagined in Tibetan society. This book provides not only a fascinating look at a popular and enduring spiritual work, but also a much-needed corrective to the proliferation of ahistorical scholarship surrounding The Tibetan Book of the Dead.

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