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Death --- Intermediate state --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Karma-gliṅ-pa,
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927. Carl Jung wrote a commentary on it, Timothy Leary redesigned it as a guidebook for an acid trip, and the Beatles quoted Leary's version in their song "Tomorrow Never Knows." More recently, the book has been adopted by the hospice movement, enshrined by Penguin Classics, and made into an audiobook read by Richard Gere. Yet, as acclaimed writer and scholar of Buddhism Donald Lopez writes, "The Tibetan Book of the Dead is not really Tibetan, it is not really a book, and it is not really about death." In this compelling introduction and short history, Lopez tells the strange story of how a relatively obscure and malleable collection of Buddhist texts of uncertain origin came to be so revered--and so misunderstood--in the West.The central character in this story is Walter Evans-Wentz (1878-1965), an eccentric scholar and spiritual seeker from Trenton, New Jersey, who, despite not knowing the Tibetan language and never visiting the country, crafted and named The Tibetan Book of the Dead. In fact, Lopez argues, Evans-Wentz's book is much more American than Tibetan, owing a greater debt to Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky than to the lamas of the Land of Snows. Indeed, Lopez suggests that the book's perennial appeal stems not only from its origins in magical and mysterious Tibet, but also from the way Evans-Wentz translated the text into the language of a very American spirituality.
Buddhism. --- Death - Religious aspects. --- Death --Religious aspects --Comparative studies. --- Future life. --- Future life --Comparative studies. --- Karma-glin-pa. --- Death --- Future life --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Buddhism --- Religious aspects --- Karma-gliṅ-pa, --- Karma-glin-pa, --- Death - Religious aspects - Comparative studies. --- Future life - Comparative studies. --- Karma-glin-pa, - active 14th century. - Bar do thos grol.
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The 'Tibetan Book of the Dead,' a best-seller for three decades, is one of the most widely read texts of Tibetan Buddhism. Over the years, it has been studied and cherished by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. 'Luminous Emptiness' is a detailed guide to this classic work, elucidating its mysterious concepts, terms, and imagery. Fremantle relates the symbolic world of the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead' to the experiences of everyday life, presenting the text not as a scripture for the dying, but as a guide for the living. According to the Buddhist view, nothing is permanent or fixed. The entire world of our experience is constantly appearing and disappearing at every moment. Using vivid and dramatic imagery, the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead' presents the notion that most of us are living in a dream that will continue from lifetime to lifetime until we truly awaken by becoming enlightened. Here, Fremantle, who worked closely with Chgyam Trungpa on the 1975 translation of the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead' (Shambhala), brings the expertise of a lifetime of study to rendering this intriguing classic more accessible and meaningful to the living. 'Luminous Emptiness' features in-depth explanations of: -The Tibetan Buddhist notions of death and rebirth -The meaning of the five energies and the five elements in Tibetan Buddhism -The mental and physical experience of dying, according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies. --- Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Buddhist. --- Intermediate state --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Karma-gliṅ-pa,
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Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies --- Death --- Intermediate state --- Reincarnation --- Tantric Buddhism --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Doctrines. --- Karma-gliṅ-pa,
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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.
Intermediate state --- Death --- Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies --- Buddhism --- Religious aspects --- Karma-gliṅ-pa, --- Criticism, Textual --- 294.3*94 --- -Funeral rites and ceremonies, Buddhist --- -Intermediate state --- -Death --- Eschatology --- Future life --- Heaven --- Hell --- Purgatory --- Soul --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Buddhist --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Lamaist --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Lamaïsme --- -Buddhism --- Rituals --- Philosophy --- Karma-glin-pa --- -Criticism, Textual --- Buddhism. --- Karma-gliṅ-pa, --- Criticism, Textual. --- -Lamaïsme --- 294.3*94 Lamaïsme --- -294.3*94 Lamaïsme --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Intermediate state - Buddhism --- Death - Religious aspects - Buddhism --- Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies - China - Tibet Autonomous Region --- Karma-gliṅ-pa, - active 14th century - Bar do thos grol --- Karma-gliṅ-pa, - active 14th century - Bar do thos grol - Criticism, Textual
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Death --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Karma-gliṅ-pa, --- Bardo thödol. --- Bardo thödol --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Buddhism --- Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies --- Intermediate state --- Dying --- End of life --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Buddhist --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Lamaist --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Philosophy --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Religions --- Rituals
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