The Tibetan Book of the Dead or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege; Oxford University Press, 1949. Second edition. Hardcover. 248pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Green cloth over boards with gilt stamping. Extremities a bit dinged. Text block only just beginning to crack at p. 241, but still very sturdy. Faint paperclip mark along top edge of front free endpaper and flyleaf. In the dust jacket, with light creasing to the edges, and subtle soiling. Very Good / Very Good. Item #71215
As a funerary text and guide to the afterlife, The Tibetan Book of the Dead was read aloud to the dying or recently deceased so that they could know the true nature of the mind and thus obtain enlightenment and liberation from the suffering involved with the endless cycle of death and rebirth.
"The message is, that the Art of Dying is quite as important as the Art of Living (or of Coming into Birth), of which it is the complement and summation; that the future of being is dependent, perhaps entirely, upon a rightly controlled death, as the second part of this volume, setting forth the Art of Reincarnating, emphasizes." - the Preface.
Price: $500.00