The Tibetan Book of the Dead (video)

Religion for Breakfast, 3/23/23; CC Liu, Seth Auberon, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What is the Tibetan Book of the Dead?

(ReligionForBreakfast) The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the Bardo Thodol, is arguably the most popular Vajrayana Buddhist text in the United States and Europe. Psychologist Carl Jung loved it. So did Beatle John Lennon. But why? What is this text all about?

SOURCES

• Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
• Graham Coleman and Thupten Jinpa (eds.), The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation translated by Gyurme Dorje. New York: Penguin Random House, 2005.

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