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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777952703321

Autore

Karma-gliṅ-pa <14th cent.>

Titolo

The Tibetan book of the dead : or, The after-death experiences on the Bardo plane, according to Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering / / compiled and edited by W.Y. Evans-Wentz ; with a new foreword and afterword by Donald S. Lopez, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

0-19-774172-X

0-19-983951-4

1-280-83341-6

0-19-803051-7

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (lxxxiv, 264 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

Evans-WentzW. Y <1878-1965.> (Walter Yeeling)

Disciplina

294.3/423

Soggetti

Death - Religious aspects - Buddhism

Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies - China - Tibet Autonomous Region

Intermediate state - Buddhism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-256) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL COMMENTARY; INTRODUCTORY FOREWORD; FOREWORD: The Science of Death; INTRODUCTION; BOOK I: THE CHIKHAI BARDO AND THE CHÖNYID BARDO; PART I: THE BARDO OF THE MOMENTS OF DEATH; PART II: THE BARDO OF THE EXPERIENCING OF REALITY; BOOK II: THE SIDPA BARDO; PART I: THE AFTER-DEATH WORLD; PART II: THE PROCESS OF REBIRTH; THE APPENDIX; ADDENDA; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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