Matt’s Reviews > The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying > Status Update

I'm finding unique parallels arising reading this during the current climate: the great emphasis placed not only on impermanence, but on the necessity of holding the ability to be introspective, to turn your mind inwards for your own nurturing:
'It's interesting that the word for "Buddhist" in Tibetan is nangpa. It means "inside-er": someone who seeks the truth not outside, but within the nature of mind'

I'm reading this a couple of days after the death of my partner's mother. Devout Buddhists, he isn't able to travel to her funeral under the current restrictions, and so he is left to mourn in another country, confined to my home away from his family. The West's canon on life and Death is of polar contrast, and provides me with little parallel of how to help him process through this loss beyond the hollow platitudes.