The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0195133110 ISBN 13: 9780195133110

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2000

Riassunto

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings. Now, in the form of the ever-popular Tibetan Book of the Dead, these teachings are constantly being discovered and rediscovered by Western readers of many different backgrounds―a phenomenon which began in 1927 with Oxford's first edition of Dr. Evans-Wentz's landmark volume. While it is traditionally used as a mortuary text, to be read or recited in the presence of a dead or dying person, this book―which relates the whole experience of death and rebirth in three intermediate states of being―was originally understood as a guide not only for the dead but also for the living. As a contribution to the science of death and dying―not to mention the belief in life after death, or the belief in rebirth―The Tibetan Book of the Dead is unique among the sacred texts of the world, for its socio-cultural influence in this regard is without comparison.

This fourth edition features a new foreword, afterword, and suggested further reading list by Donald S. Lopez, author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Lopez traces the whole history of the late Evans-Wentz's three earlier editions of this book, fully considering the work of contributors to previous editions (C. G. Jung among them), the sections that were added by Evans-Wentz along the way, the questions surrounding the book's translation, and finally the volume's profound importance in engendering both popular and academic interest in the religion and culture of Tibet. Another key theme that Lopez addresses is the changing nature of this book's audience―from the prewar theosophists to the beat poets to the hippies to contemporary exponents of the hospice movement―and what these audiences have found (or sought) in its very old pages.

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Recensione

Dr. Evans-Wentz, who literally sat at the feet of a Tibetan lama for years in order to acquire his wisdom...not only displays a deeply sympathetic interest in those esoteric doctrines so characteristic of the genius of the East, but likewise possesses the rare faculty of making them more or less intelligible to the layman. (Anthropology (on the previous edition))

Contenuti

• Foreword by Donald S Lopez Jr
• Suggested Readings
• Preface to the 1960 Paperback edition
• Preface to the Third Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• Book I, Part I: The Bardo of the Moments of Death
• Book I, Part II: The Bardo of the Experiencing of Reality
• Book II, Part I: The Sidpa Bardo
• Book II, Part II: The Process of Rebirth
• Afterword: The Long Life of 'The Tibetan Book of the Dead' by Donald S Lopez Jr.
• Index

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• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0195133110
• ISBN 13: 9780195133110
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 4
• Numero di pagine: 354
• Redattore: Evans-Wentz W. Y.