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The Tibetan book of the dead : a biography / Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

By: Series: Lives of great religious booksPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 173 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400838042
  • 1400838045
  • 1282976389
  • 9781282976382
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tibetan book of the dead.DDC classification:
  • 294.3/85 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ4490.K373 L66 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
America -- India -- Tibet -- The world -- Conclusion.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index.

America -- India -- Tibet -- The world -- Conclusion.

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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