The Tibetan Book of the Dead : A Biography /

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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 vers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lopez, Donald S., Jr., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Karma-gliṅ-pa, > active 14th century. > Bar do thos grol.
Bar do thos grol (Karma-gliṅ-pa)
Future life.
Death > Religious aspects.
RELIGION > Buddhism > Tibetan.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Vie future > Études comparatives.
Mort > Aspect religieux > Études comparatives.
Future life > Comparative studies.
Death > Religious aspects > Comparative studies.
Comparative studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (192 pages).
ISBN:9781400838042

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