Tibetan Book of the Dead - Milestone Documents

Tibetan Book of the Dead

( ca. 750 ) Commentary by Zhao Dong, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

Bechert, Heinz, and Richard Gombrich, eds. The World of Buddhism. London: Thames and Hudson, 1984.
Becker, Carl B. Breaking the Circle: Death and the Afterlife in Buddhism. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Freemantle, Francesca. Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, 2001.
Kapleau, Philip. The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide. Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, 1997.
Langer, Rita. Buddhist Rituals of Death and Rebirth: Contemporary Sri Lankan Practice and Origins. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Mullin, Glenn H. Death and Dying: The Tibetan Tradition. Boston, Mass.: Arkana, 1986.
Thondup, Tulku. Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook. Boston, Mass.: Shambhala Publications, 2006.
Wilson, Liz, ed. The Living and the Dead: Social Dimensions of Death in South Asian Religions. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003.
Wilson, Martin. Rebirth and the Western Buddhist. 2nd ed. London: Wisdom Publications, 1987.

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