Lopez, Donald S.,  Jr.,  1952- <br/><br/>
The Tibetan book of the dead :  a biography / 
Donald S. Lopez, Jr. 
 - Princeton :  Princeton University Press,  2011. 
 - 1 online resource (x, 173 pages). 
 - Lives of great religious books .
 - Lives of great religious books. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index. 
<br/><br/>America -- India -- Tibet -- The world -- Conclusion. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781400838042 1400838045 1282976389 9781282976382 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label>22573/cttz1fb  JSTOR F76535A4-65D1-49EA-AE88-91052486FFE1  OverDrive, Inc.  http://www.overdrive.com 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Karma-gliṅ-pa, active 14th century.  Bar do thos grol. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>Bar do thos grol (Karma-gliṅ-pa)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Death--Religious aspects--Comparative studies.<br/>Future life--Comparative studies.<br/>Karma-glin?-pa--14th cent.--Bar do thos grol.<br/>Religion.<br/>RELIGION--Buddhism--General.<br/>RELIGION--Buddhism--Tibetan.<br/>Death--Religious aspects.<br/>Future life.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Comparative studies.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BQ4490.K373  / L66 2011eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>294.3/85