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Title: The Illustrated Tibetan Book of the Dead: A New Reference Manual for the Soul by Stephen Hodge, Martin Boord ISBN: 0-8069-6431-6 Publisher: Sterling Publishing Pub. Date: 30 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: good for beginers in eastren philosophies
Comment: i got this book as a present to a freind who's very into eastren philosophies, he already read parts of the tibetian book of the dead, and i thought that having that followed with photos of tibet might ad another level of understanding to his studing.
first of all this book doesn't contain all the texts from the original book, and so, it gives a good over all look to this approach to life, and a nice introdaction t the subject, but not too much information on top of that, it's lacking a lot of the major asppects of this approach.
the photos are very predictable and sort of westernly matched to the texts - like a photo of a dark sky with light peeking through in a paragraph about higher power, which to me knowladge doesn't really match the concept of higher powen in the tibetian approach. the photos themself are very nice and very turistic, nothing you can't find in a postcard rack in some tibetian gift shop, if such thing exsist.
my recoomentation - if you are looking to get familier with this text - get the non illustrated full book of the dead, and if you are looking to see nice photos of tibet, there are quite a lot photo albums which are better in both quality of phtography and printing, and choice of subject.
it's a pretty nice intrudaction to the country and phylosophy, but i haven't find anything too exciting about this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautifully Illustrated
Comment: A more accessible version for Westerners of the ancient Tibetan Buddhist philosophy, 'The Great Liberation Through Hearing'. The teaching takes you through each day of the bardo of death with a comprehensive commentary. For anyone with prior Buddhist understanding, the transition between life & death detailed in this book will not come as a shock. However, for those with no prior knowledge of Tibetan Buddhism it would probably be wise to start somewhere else like the 'Tibetan Book of Living & Dying' by Sogyal Rinpoche.
Do not be put off by thinking that this is a book just about dying. Although it is essentially a guide for the dead, it is also a guide for the living.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Illustrated Tibetan Book of the Dead
Comment: Many people engaged in serious spiritual practice have suceeded in indefinitely putting off a "confrontation" with the Tibetan Book of the Dead. After all it is very complex, loaded with esoteric Tibetan Buddhist teachings, and the subject is so -- well, shall we say not a light entertainment accompanied by an immediate warm glow of satisfaction.
Now there is no reason to put it off any longer! The beautifully produced new Illustrated Tibetan Book of the Dead(a new translation with commentary) by Stephen Hodge with Martin Boord fills a void with great success.
First the book is physically beautiful with absolutely splendid color photographs of the Tibetan people, colorful religious celebrations and ceremonies and the awesome scenery of this spectacular country.
Reading, absorbing and responding to this book is very much like participating in a several day retreat. The retreat is conducted by someone who really understands his topic. The text of the book is reduced in size from the original, eliminating much of the more obscure material and examples, but the central, essential elements are all here.
Those central elements, very well introduced, are presented in a fine new translation and accompanied by very helpful explanatory material by Stephen Hodge. The first time visitor to this esoteric spiritual classic can therefore come away from a several day "retreat" of reading feeling well satisfied that the book has been opened for him/her and explicated by a master.
As our life is truly for the sake of dying into an eternity of awareness and bliss, and since we can in fact become familiar with the process of dying through meditative reading and understanding of this book -- and since a major point of the book is to show how easy it is to be so unfamilar with the open doors to eternal bliss that we can move right past them out of ignorance, why not stop now and take the time to study and learn the lesson of lessons.
Whether a reader of this book will wish to follow it up by going to a complete text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead is of course an individual decision based on how satisfied one is with the book discussed here. Certainly, this superlatively planned, written and produced book is l00% more helpful and satisfying than never bothering with the Book Of The Dead at all. And it is probably equal to the task of satisfying most readers completely.
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Title: The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Chogyam Trungpa ISBN: 0877736758 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 13 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller; Revised and Updated Edition by Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick D. Gaffney, Andrew Harvey ISBN: 0062508342 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 22 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title:The Tibetan Book of the Dead (A Way of Life / The Great Liberation) ASIN: B0000YTOZS Publisher: Wellspring Media, In Pub. Date: 17 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $21.73 |
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Title: Tibetan Book of the Dead by Robert Thurman ISBN: 0553370901 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Luminous Emptiness : A Guide to the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Francesca Fremantle ISBN: 1570629250 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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