The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or, The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, According to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering.

Evans-Wentz, W. Y. (editor); Govinda, Lama Anagarika (foreword); Woodroffe, John (foreword); Jung, C. G. (Carl G.) (comments).

ISBN 10: 0195002237 / ISBN 13: 9780195002232

Edité par Oxford University Press (OUP), London, 1960

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Paperback trade, very good condition, pages toned as usual, minor edgewear, old price sticker inside front cover. 249 pp. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thardol in Tibetan) is a14th Century Tibetan Buddhist text that is a guide to transitioning through the bardo state that lies between death and rebirth. Describes the experiences of consciousness after death, the signs of death, and rituals to undertake when death is closing in or has taken place. This translation and compilation by W. Y. Evans-Wentz was originally published by Oxford University Press in 1927. The current third and enlarged edition contains two forewords by Lama Anagarika Govinda and John Woodroffe, plus a valuable commentary by C. G. (Carl) Jung. (Published as a paperback in 1960, and later assigned an ISBN. This copy is the 42nd paperback printing.).

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• Titre: The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or, The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, According to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering.
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press (OUP), London
• Date de parution: 1960
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0195002237
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780195002232
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: 3rd & enlarged p/b, reprint ed.
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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 traditionally used as a mortuary text, to be read or recited in the presence of a dead or dying person, this book--which relates the whole experience of death and rebirth in three intermediate states of being--was originally understood as a guide not only for the dead but also for the living. As a contribution to the science of death and dying--not to mention the belief in life after death, or the belief in rebirth--The Tibetan Book of the Dead is unique among the sacred texts of the world, for its socio-cultural influence in this regard is without comparison. This fourth edition features a new foreword, afterword, and suggested further reading list by Donald S. Lopez, author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Lopez traces the whole history of the late Evans-Wentz's three earlier editions of this book, fully considering the work of contributors to previous editions (C. G. Jung among them), the sections that were added by Evans-Wentz along the way, the questions surrounding the book's translation, and finally the volume's profound importance in engendering both popular and academic interest in the religion and culture of Tibet. Another key theme that Lopez addresses is the changing nature of this book's audience--from the prewar theosophists to the beat poets to the hippies to contemporary exponents of the hospice movement--and what these audiences have found (or sought) in its very old pages.