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Death & Dying


Click to enlarge	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 ...
Click to enlarge	LIVING IN THE FACE OF DEATH: The Tibetan Tradition by Glenn H. Mullin 240 pp. Second Edition. #LIFA2E - regular price $ 16.95 Our Price $13.56 Published by Snow Lion Whereas Western society views death as the last taboo, the Tibetan tradition incorporates meditation on death into everyday life. Tibetan Buddhists believe that a conscious awareness of one's own impermanence allows a person to live a happy, fulfilled life. More ...
Click to enlarge	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 ...
Click to enlarge	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
Click to enlarge	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.
Click to enlarge	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 ...
Click to enlarge	BIRTH, LIFE AND DEATH According to Tibetan Medicine and Dzogchen Teachings by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu 164 pp. #BILIDE - $ 15.00 Renowned Tibetan master Namkhai Norbu integrates teachings on Tibetan medicine & Dzogchen as applied to the stages of life. The first section introduces the principles of Tibetan medicine by defining & explaining the functions and relationship between humours & organic compounds. The Birth section covers such topics as the causes of conception, the nature of fetal development and empahsizes the importance of the pregnant woman's behavior during this crucial time. More ...
Click to enlarge	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.
Click to enlarge	HEART PRACTICES FOR DEATH AND DYING by Lama Zopa Rinpoche 236 pp. #HEPRDE - $ 24.99 Death comes to all living beings, and at that crucial time of transition from one life to the next, we may not know how to best help our loved ones or ourselves. This book contains advice from Tibetan Buddhist master Lama Zopa Rinpoche on preparing for death and assisting others through this time, and provides a plethora of heart practices to do at the time of death, including the Medicine Buddha puja and the traditional eight prayers done in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries. This book also contains the most powerful mantras to say for those who are dying or who have died, teachings on their precise benefits, as well as a sheet of mantras to place upon the body of one who has died. It contains precious Sutra texts to benefit the minds of those who are dying, to relieve pain, and to purify negative karma. More ...
Click to enlarge	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.
Click to enlarge	KARMA CHAKME'S MOUNTAIN DHARMA VOL. 3 taught by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, translated by Yeshe Gyamtso, Chojor Radha, Jigme Nyima, and Namgyal Khorko 450 pp., with 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. More ...
Click to enlarge	NATURAL LIBERATION: Padmasambhava's Teachings on the Six Bardos commentary by Gyatrul Rinpoche, translated by B. Alan Wallace 344 pp. #NALI - $ 18.95 In life and in death, in meditation and in sleep, every transitional stage of consciousness, or bardo, provides an opportunity to overcome limitations, frustrations, and fears. The profound teachings in this book provide the understanding and instruction necessary to turn every phase of life into an opportunity for uncontrived, natural liberation. More ...
Click to enlarge	PEACEFUL DEATH, JOYFUL REBIRTH: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook by Tulku Thondup 352 pp., paper, plus CD. #PEDEJ2 - $ 24.95 “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 ...
Click to enlarge	THERE'S MORE TO DYING THAN DEATH by Lama Shenpen Hookham 224 pp. #THMODY - regular price $ 14.95 Our Price $11.96 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 ...
Click to enlarge	THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD written 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), 587 pp., 16 pages of color illustrations! #TIBOPA - $ 21.00 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 ...
Click to enlarge	THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo trans. by Francesca Fremantle and Chogyam Trungpa 119 pp. #TIBODD - $ 14.95 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. More ...
Click to enlarge	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.)
Click to enlarge	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 ...