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Genre/Form: | Early works Early works to 1800 |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Karma-gliṅ-pa, 14th cent. Tibetan book of the dead [English title]. New York : Viking, 2006 (OCoLC)607737394 Online version: Karma-gliṅ-pa, 14th cent. Tibetan book of the dead [English title]. New York : Viking, 2006 (OCoLC)607737403 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Karma-gliṅ-pa; Padma Sambhava; Gyurme Dorje.; Graham Coleman; Thupten Jinpa.; Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV |
ISBN: | 0670858862 9780670858866 9780143104940 0143104942 |
OCLC Number: | 61684205 |
Description: | xlix, 535 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introductory commentary / His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama -- A brief literary history of the Tibetan Book of the Dead / Gyurme Dorje -- The Tibetan book of the dead -- Appendix 1: Peaceful and wrathful deities and the Tibetan book of the dead -- Appendix 2: Symbolism of the mandala of the peaceful and wrathful deities. |
Other Titles: | Bar do thos grol. Great liberation by hearing in the intermediate states |
Responsibility: | composed by Padmasambhava ; revealed by Terton Karma Lingpa ; translated by Gyurme Dorje ; edited by Graham Coleman with Thupten Jinpa ; introductory commentary by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. |
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Abstract:
Contains a translation of the key Buddhist text that follows a Buddhist priest and student as they guide a deceased person into afterlife, chronicling the progress of the soul through death and rebirth in three stages.
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- Intermediate state -- Buddhism -- Early works to 1800.
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