Death & Dying
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BARDO TEACHINGS: The Way of Death and Rebirth by Ven. Lama Lodo Rinpoche. 73 pp., illustrations. #BATE - regular price $ 8.95 Our Price $7.16 Published by Snow Lion "Bardo Teachings is remarkable because it reveals a significant portion of the secret tantric path. This is genuine tantra, a teaching on how to traverse the stages of death without fear. It is as true a guide to tantric Buddhism's view of life and death as can be found in print."--San Francisco Chronicle More ... | |
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DEATH, INTERMEDIATE STATE AND REBIRTH by Lati Rinpoche & Jeffrey Hopkins, foreword by H.H. the Dalai Lama. 86 pp., includes charts, bibliography #DEINST - regular price $ 10.95 Our Price $8.76 Published by Snow Lion This fascinating book unfolds in detail the complex Tibetan Buddhist system of subtle physiology--providing a complete exposition of the channels, drops and winds which serve as foundations for consciousness. Highest Yoga Tantra simulates processes of death, intermediate states and rebirth, so it is important for the practitioner to know how humans die--the stages of death and the physiological reasons behind them. "The work forms an excellent companion volume to the "Tibetan Books of the Dead," and also to contemporary Western works on death and dying."--Prof. Janice Willis, Religious Studies Review More ... | |
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LIVING IN THE FACE OF DEATH: The Tibetan Tradition by Glenn Mullin Pre-order Now--Available November 2008. 240 pp. #LIFA2E - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion Until recently, contemporary Western society viewed death the way the Victorians viewed sex—as taboo, a forbidden subject. Yet Tibetan tradition incorporates death into everyday life. Over the centuries Tibetans have developed a wide-ranging literature on death, of which The Tibetan Book of the Dead—whose author, Karma Lingpa, has a selection included here—is perhaps the best-known. Eight other short texts include works by the Second, Seventh, and Thirteenth Dalai Lamas, and cover meditation techniques to prepare for death, rituals for preparing the dead, and accounts of what transpires during the bardo (the state of consciousness between death and rebirth). More ... | |
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MIND BEYOND DEATH The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Cloth. 348 pp. 4-page color insert. #MIBEDE - regular price $ 25.95 Our Price $20.76 Published by Snow Lion An indispensable guidebook through the journey of life and death, Mind Beyond Death weaves a synthesis of wisdom remarkable in its scope. With warm informality and profound understanding of the Western mind, The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche makes the mysterious Tibetan teachings on the bardos—the intervals of life, death, and beyond—completely available to the modern reader. More ... | |
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The Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche 348 pages, 4-page color insert, new in paper. (See description above.) #MIBEDP - regular price $ 18.95 Our Price $15.16 Published by Snow Lion | |
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ADVICE AND PRACTICES FOR DEATH AND DYING: For the Benefit of Self and Others Commentary by Lama Zopa Rinpoche 360 pp., line drawings. #ADPRDE - $ 35.00 A truly useful manual for preparing for death, with clear and helpful advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche as well as a suite of practices, including Medicine Buddha practices, Amitabha Phowa, Prayer to Be Reborn in the Land of Bliss, Giving Breath to the Wretched, Tonglen (taking and giving) and a lot more. | |
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THE BARDO GUIDEBOOK by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche 187 pp. #BAGU - $ 17.00 Rinpoche offers new information on the four bardos in this commentary on "The Mirror of Mindfulness" and provides a guide for practitioners desiring liberation. | |
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BARDO: Interval of Possibility by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, trans. by Yeshe Gyamtso 144 pp. #BAINPO - $ 14.95 In this exceptionally clear explanation of Aspiration for the Bardo by Chokyi Wangchuk, Khenpo not only gives the sequence of events during death but also instructs on how to practice and train ourselves at every opportunity--life, death, and the interval experience itself. More ... | |
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DEATH AND THE ART OF DYING in Tibetan Buddhism by Bokar Rinpoche 144 pp. #DEARDY - $ 15.95 Bokar Rinpoche offers ways of helping the dying and dead based on his intimate knowledge and experience of caring for the dying. This guide through the stages of dying explains how to encounter death without fear and how to maintain constant awareness of impermanence and inevitability of death--to enrich our life and to prepare for death. | |
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DELOG: Journey to Realms Beyond Death by Delog Dawa Drolma, trans. by Richard Barron & H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche 162 pp. #DELO - $ 13.95 "Delog" is a person who intentionally crossed the threshold of death and returned to tell about it. Delog Dawa Drolma, a great realization holder of Vajrayana and mother of Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, lay in a death trance without any vital sign of breath, pulse, or warmth for five days. She journeyed to other realms where she experienced the almost unimaginable contrast between existence within the pure display of enlightened mind and existence within samsaric delusion. | |
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GRACEFUL EXITS: How Great Beings Die Comp. and ed. by Sushila Blackman 160 pp., 20 photos. #GREX - $ 12.95 Here are 108 stories recounting the ways in which Tibetan, Hindu, and Zen Buddhist masters, both ancient and modern, have confronted their own deaths. It recounts the grace, clarity, and even humor with which these teachers have met the end of their days. Kalu Rinpoche, Ling Rinpoche, Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Trijang Rinpoche, H.H. Gyalwa Karmapa, and Lama Yeshe are among those whose stories are recounted. Truly inspiring. More ... | |
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JOURNEY OF THE MIND: Putting the Teachings on the Bardo into Effective Practice by Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche 136 pp. #JOMI - $ 14.95 Accessible and practical teachings on the bardo states and phowa practice, by one of the most respected teachers. | |
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KARMA CHAKME'S MOUNTAIN DHARMA VOL. 3 taught by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, translated by Yeshe Gyamtso, Chojor Radha, Jigme Nyima, and Namgyal Khorko Pre-order Now--Available November 2008. 450 pp. illustrations. #KACH3 - $ 29.95 Opening with concise bardo teachings and offering instruction on benefiting people who are within the bardo state, this volume then continues with instructions for the practitioner that cover: how to protect oneself from potential threats with loving-kindness and compassion; how to purify obscurations through the invocation of wisdom deities; the signs that arise through practice; how to recognize when you get off the track and eradicate the cause; problems that can impede practice and stop it from working; methods necessary to cause one’s practice to develop; bringing the five mental affliction to the path in terms of four different approaches. | |
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LIFE IN RELATION TO DEATH by Chagdud Tulku 86 pp., 2nd edition. #LIREDE - $ 8.95 Describes the dying process and offers practical methods for bringing one's spiritual practice to the experience. | |
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LIVING WITHOUT REGRET: Growing Old in the Light of Tibetan Buddhism by Arnaud Maitland 332 pp. #LIWIRE - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $11.86 In this honest, poignant account--and teaching--of coming to terms with the loss of a loved one, Maitland unfolds how his grief, guilt, and anger around his mother's death deepened his ability to apply Buddhist teachings. A wonderful look at practical Buddhist wisdom. | |
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LUMINOUS EMPTINESS: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Francesca Fremantle 428 pp., 8 color plates. #LUEMP - $ 24.95 Luminous Emptiness is a detailed guide to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, elucidating its mysterious concepts, terms, and imagery. Fremantle relates this symbolic world to the experiences of everyday life, presenting the text not as a scripture for the dying, but as a guide for the living. | |
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MEDICINE AND COMPASSION: A Tibetan Lama's Guidance for Caregivers by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche with David R. Shlim, MD 192 pp. #MECOTI - $ 14.95 Written by a medical doctor and a Tibetan monk and teacher, Medicine and Compassion taps Tibetan Buddhism for practical tools that caregivers can use to revitalize their spirits. For anyone facing tragedies such as a terminally ill relative, friends or family facing a long convalescence, or even acute anger at an illness, this timely book opens paths to renewed patience, kindness, and effectiveness. More ... | |
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MEDICINE BUDDHA: THE WISH-FULFILLING JEWEL composed by Panchen Losang Chokyi Gyaltsen, trans. by David Malk 80 pp., spiralbound. #MEBUWI - $ 12.00 This powerful practice is designed for people who are dying or have already passed away, and also for individual success in all kinds of activities. This concise sutra ritual includes both phoneticized Tibetan and English. Appendices: Extensive bath offering, offering practice, meditation on rejoicing, Tibetan text. More ... | |
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NATURAL LIBERATION: Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche, translated by B. Alan Wallace 272 pp. #NALI - $ 17.95 Padmasambhava explains how to turn ordinary circumstances into opportunities for enlightenment. He describes six life processes or bardos and teaches how to transform them (includes meditation instructions). | |