ISBN: 9781846041051    Publisher: Ebury Publishing Year of publishing: 2008     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 464        Language: English

The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying: A Spiritual Classic From One Of The Foremost Interpreters Of Tibetan Buddhism To The West is a book written by Sogyal Rinpoche. This book hopes to inspire people's minds and change the way they perceive death and how they take care of those dying. It also hopes to change their perceptions about life and the way people take care of the living. This book elucidates the grand vision of life and death that lies within the Tibetan tradition. This book includes a lucid, complete, and inspiring preface to the practice of meditation. It also gives readers advice on how they should take care of the dying with compassion and love and how they can give them spiritual assistance. The book starts with a foreword from His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. This book has been divided into four parts based on, living, dying, death, and rebirth respectively, followed by a conclusion. This book touches on several topics such as impermanence, Karma, Rebirth, The Spiritual Path, spiritual help for the dying, the practice and process of dying, helping after death, and the universal process. The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying: A Spiritual Classic From One Of The Foremost Interpreters Of Tibetan Buddhism To The West was published by RHUK in 2008. This book is available in paperback. Key Features: The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying: A Spiritual Classic From One Of The Foremost Interpreters Of Tibetan Buddhism To The West was highly acclaimed by critics from The Guardian and Metro.
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Sogyal Rinpoche was born in Tibet and entered a monastery when he was four months old. He fled the country with the Dalai Lama in 1959 and was educated in India and Cambridge University, England. Since then, he has taught throughout the world. He is the spiritual director of Rigpa, an organisation devoted to introducing the teachings of the Buddha and to offering advice on spiritual care for the dying.
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