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Pdf tibetan book of the dead summary download read. The tibetan book of the dead is the title created by walter yeeling evanswentz 18781965, its first westernlanguage editor, for a collection of tibetan ritual and literary texts concerned with death, intermediate states sanskrit, antarabhava. In this first installment above, the tibetan book of the dead. A buddhist funerary text and guide to the afterlife, which was to be read aloud to the dying or recently deceased to help them attain enlightenment and liberation from the endless cycle of death and rebirth. Written by a tibetan monk, the book of the dead describes in detail the stages of death from the tibetan point of view. Tibetan book of the dead, clear light, bardo, delok, neardeath. San francisco chronicle a newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, the tibetan book of living and dying, written by sogyal rinpoche.
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