Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss: The Essential Tibetan Book of the Dead
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Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss: The Essential Tibetan Book of the Dead

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A distillation of the acclaimed English translation of a revered Tibetan classic

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist writings in the West and one of the most inspirational and compelling texts in world literature.

In Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss, Graham Coleman, the editor of Viking's acclaimed unabridged translation of The ...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published November 25th 2009 by Viking Adult
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I think of this little book as a kind of tasting menu of Tibetan Buddhism. There is more that I feel I would need to know to make better use of the practices described here, but the ideas are well presented, and the poetry quite beautiful.
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Graham Coleman is President of the Orient Foundation (UK), a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organization. He has been editing Tibetan Buddhist poetry and prose texts in cooperation with various distinguished translators since the mid-1970s.
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