Selling id: yesterdaysmuse,
Rated by buyers 4.7
State: verygood
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From: NY, United States
Remarks: Edition: 3rd Printing; Sticker on back cover, pages slightly toned. Type of bind tight, text clean & unmarked.. Q, lxxxiv, 264 pages. '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 very 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
