Luminous Emptiness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luminous Emptiness write by Francesca Fremantle. This book was released on 2003-03-11. Luminous Emptiness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a best-seller for three decades, is one of the most widely read texts of Tibetan Buddhism. Over the years, it has been studied and cherished by Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. Luminous Emptiness is a detailed guide to this classic work, elucidating its mysterious concepts, terms, and imagery. Fremantle relates the symbolic world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead to the experiences of everyday life, presenting the text not as a scripture for the dying, but as a guide for the living. According to the Buddhist view, nothing is permanent or fixed. The entire world of our experience is constantly appearing and disappearing at every moment. Using vivid and dramatic imagery, the Tibetan Book of the Dead presents the notion that most of us are living in a dream that will continue from lifetime to lifetime until we truly awaken by becoming enlightened. Here, Fremantle, who worked closely with Chögyam Trungpa on the 1975 translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Shambhala), brings the expertise of a lifetime of study to rendering this intriguing classic more accessible and meaningful to the living. Luminous Emptiness features in-depth explanations of: • The Tibetan Buddhist notions of death and rebirth • The meaning of the five energies and the five elements in Tibetan Buddhism • The mental and physical experience of dying, according to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as Popularly Known in the West
The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as Popularly Known in the West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as Popularly Known in the West write by Karma-gliṅ-pa. This book was released on 1994. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as Popularly Known in the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead write by Bryan J. Cuevas. This book was released on 2005-12-08. The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1927, Oxford University Press published the first western-language translation of a collection of Tibetan funerary texts (the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo) under the title The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Since that time, the work has established a powerful hold on the western popular imagination, and is now considered a classic of spiritual literature. Over the years, The Tibetan Book of the Dead has inspired numerous commentaries, an illustrated edition, a play, a video series, and even an opera. Translators, scholars, and popular devotees of the book have claimed to explain its esoteric ideas and reveal its hidden meaning. Few, however, have uttered a word about its history. Bryan J. Cuevas seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge by offering the first comprehensive historical study of the Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Bardo, and by grounding it firmly in the context of Tibetan history and culture. He begins by discussing the many ways the texts have been understood (and misunderstood) by westerners, beginning with its first editor, the Oxford-educated anthropologist Walter Y. Evans-Wentz, and continuing through the present day. The remarkable fame of the book in the west, Cuevas argues, is strikingly disproportionate to how the original Tibetan texts were perceived in their own country. Cuevas tells the story of how The Tibetan Book of the Dead was compiled in Tibet, of the lives of those who preserved and transmitted it, and explores the history of the rituals through which the life of the dead is imagined in Tibetan society. This book provides not only a fascinating look at a popular and enduring spiritual work, but also a much-needed corrective to the proliferation of ahistorical scholarship surrounding The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Tibetan Book of the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tibetan Book of the Dead write by Karma-gliṅ-pa. This book was released on 1987. The Tibetan Book of the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
The Tibetan Book of the Dead - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tibetan Book of the Dead write by Karma-gliṅ-pa. This book was released on 1927. The Tibetan Book of the Dead available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
