Death & Dying
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PEACEFUL DEATH, JOYFUL REBIRTH: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook by Tulku Thondup 352 pp., paper, plus CD. #PEDEJ2 - $ 19.95 “A healing treasure from Tulku Thondup: a clear, complete, and compassionate guidebook to the journey through life, dying, death, and beyond. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, including the Tibetan near-death experiences, he shows to what extent the quality of our life, death, and rebirth all depend upon the mind.”—Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying More ... | |
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PHOWA COMMENTARY: Instructions for the Practice of Consciousness Transference as Revealed by Rigdzin Longsal Nyingpo by Chagdud Khadro (Jane Tromge) 90 pp. #PHCO - $ 7.00 Phowa is a Vajrayana Buddhist method by which one's consciousness is intentionally transferred to a pure realm at the moment of death. Phowa training enables one to approach death as an opportunity for liberation from cyclic existence, rather than an experience of fear and uncertainty. Chagdud Khadro explains the process of dying and the steps involved in p'howa training based on the hidden treasure text of the Buddhist meditation master Rigdzin Longsal Nyingpo. Restricted to students who have received phowa teachings. More ... | |
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PRACTICING THE FIVE POWERS NEAR THE TIME OF DEATH by Lama Zopa Rinpoche 80 pp. #PRFIPO - $ 12.00 This extraordinary book contains advice and commentary from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on how to practice the five powers near the time of death, thereby ensuring a peaceful death and positive rebirth. Rinpoche discusses the power of eliminating attachment and practicing generosity, the power of prayer, eliminating attachment to the ego, training, and bodhichitta. More ... | |
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THERE'S MORE TO DYING THAN DEATH by Lama Shenpen Hookham 224 pp. #THMODY - $ 14.95 A sane, grounded perspective on death for use by Western practitioners and those they care about, this helpful book explores aspects of preparing for and moving through the dying process, and is written by the well-regarded teacher and founder of Awakened Heart Sangha. More ... | |
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THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD by Robert Thurman 278 pp., 8 color photos. #TIBO - $ 18.00 The introduction to Buddhism, meditation instruction, illuminating commentary, and guidance in the practical use of Tibetan prayers make this one of the most accessible and informative editions available. | |
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THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD composed by Padmasambhava, revealed by Terton Karma Lingpa, trans. by Gyurme Dorje, with intro. by HH the Dalai Lama, ed. by Graham Coleman with Thupten Jinpa The Great Liberation by Hearing in the Intermediate States (first complete translation) #TIBOPA - $ 20.00 This is the first ever complete and unabridged translation of the Bardo Thodrol, popularly known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Created in close co-operation with a remarkable range of contemporary Tibetan masters, including Garje Khamtrul Rinpoche, this new translation represents a major step in the understanding of the Tibetan Buddhist vision of our journey through life and death. More ... | |
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TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD FOR READING ALOUD adapted by Jean-Claude van Itallie 9" x 9". 64 pp., with color art and photos. #TIBORE - $ 20.00 The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Reading Aloud is famed playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie's poetic adaptation of traditional Tibetan passages used to aid and comfort at the time of death. His lyrical and insightful poetry is accompanied by Gerry Vezzuso's vivid photographs, Tibetan art, and other images evocative of this process. The text leads us through the stages we experience after death and helps us to overcome the ambitions, desires, jealousies, and fears that can obscure our understanding of ourselves and our transition into the next life. An extremely beautiful version of this classic, laid out with contemplative, full-color imagery and designed for ease of reading. More ... | |
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THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo trans. by Francesca Fremantle and Chogyam Trungpa 119 pp. #TIBODD - $ 12.95 This classic Buddhist scripture is read aloud to the dying to help them attain liberation. Trungpa's commentary explains what the text teaches us about human psychology. | |
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THE TIBETAN BOOK OF LIVING AND DYING by Sogyal Rinpoche 441 pp., photos, revised and updated editon. #TIBOLP - $ 17.95 Examines the dramatic healing that is released when we view death as the beginning of another chapter of life. Teaches how to transform the experience of death through contemplation and mindfulness. He discusses rebirth, near-death experience, and caring for the dying. (Also available on CD-TIWICD.) | |
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TRAVELS IN THE NETHERWORLD: Buddhist Popular Narratives of Death and the Afterlife in Tibet by Bryan J. Cuevas Cloth. 200 pp. #TRINTH - $ 65.00 These vivid, detailed, and fascinating reports of near-death experiences, framed in Tibetan Buddhist terms, get into territory rarely covered in other books. Cuevas examines tales of the delok, ordinary men and women who claim to have died, traveled through hell, and then returned from the afterlife. More ... | |
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A YEAR TO LIVE: How to Live This Year as if It Were Your Last by Stephen Levine 175 pp. #YELI - $ 11.95 In A Year to Live Stephen Levine teaches us how to live each moment as if it were all that was left of his life. He decided to live this way himself for a whole year, and now he shares with us how such immediacy radically changes our world-view, forces us to examine our priorities, and prepares us to die without regrets. | |