The Tibetan book of living and dying. edited by Patrick Gaffney and Andrew Harvey.

By:

Sogyal Rinpoche

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Rider 2002. London Edition: 1stDescription: 441ISBN:

9780712615693

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

294.3422 So24 T 17958

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Books	Chinmaya International Foundation General Stacks	General	294.3422 So24 T 17958 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	17958

Popular Tibetan teacher Sogyal Rinpoche has transformed that ancient text, conveying a perennial philosophy that is at once religious, scientific, and practical. Through extraordinary anecdotes and stories from religious traditions East and West, Rinpoche introduces the reader to the fundamentals of Tibetan Buddhism, moving gradually to the topics of death and dying. Death turns out to be less of a crisis and more of an opportunity. Concepts such as reincarnation, karma, and bardo and practices such as meditation, tonglen, and phowa teach us how to face death constructively

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