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Title:
The Tibetan book of the dead : a biography
Author:
Lopez, Donald S., Jr., 1952-
ISBN:
9781400838042

9781282976382
Publication Information:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 173 pages).
Series:
Lives of great religious books

Lives of great religious books.
Abstract:
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927. Carl Jung wrote a commentary on it, Timothy Leary redesigned it as a guidebook for an acid trip, and the Beatles quoted Leary's version in their song "Tomorrow Never Knows." More recently, the book has been adopted by the hospice movement, enshrined by Penguin Classics, and made into an audiobook read by Richard Gere. Yet, as acclaimed writer and scholar of Buddhism Donald Lopez writes, "The Tibetan Book of the Dead is not really Tibetan.
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