The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to L=ama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English RenderingW. Y. Evans-Wentz Oxford University Press, 28 de set. de 2000 - 354 páginas The Tibetan Book of the Dead is one of the texts that, according to legend, Padma-Sambhava was compelled to hide during his visit to Tibet in the late 8th century. The guru hid his books in stones, lakes, and pillars because the Tibetans of that day and age were somehow unprepared for their teachings. Now, in the form of the ever-popular Tibetan Book of the Dead, these teachings are constantly being discovered and rediscovered by Western readers of many different backgrounds--a phenomenon which began in 1927 with Oxford's first edition of Dr. Evans-Wentz's landmark volume. While it is traditionally used as a mortuary text, to be read or recited in the presence of a dead or dying person, this book--which relates the whole experience of death and rebirth in three intermediate states of being--was originally understood as a guide not only for the dead but also for the living. As a contribution to the science of death and dying--not to mention the belief in life after death, or the belief in rebirth--The Tibetan Book of the Dead is unique among the sacred texts of the world, for its socio-cultural influence in this regard is without comparison. This fourth edition features a new foreword, afterword, and suggested further reading list by Donald S. Lopez, author of Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West. Lopez traces the whole history of the late Evans-Wentz's three earlier editions of this book, fully considering the work of contributors to previous editions (C. G. Jung among them), the sections that were added by Evans-Wentz along the way, the questions surrounding the book's translation, and finally the volume's profound importance in engendering both popular and academic interest in the religion and culture of Tibet. Another key theme that Lopez addresses is the changing nature of this book's audience--from the prewar theosophists to the beat poets to the hippies to contemporary exponents of the hospice movement--and what these audiences have found (or sought) in its very old pages. |
Conteúdo
xxvii | |
xxxv | |
liii | |
The Science of Death | lxv |
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE CHIKHAI BARDO AND THE CHÖNYID BARDO | 83 |
THE BARDO OF THE MOMENTS OF DEATH | 89 |
THE BARDO OF THE EXPERIENCING OF REALITY | 101 |
THE SIDPA BARDO | 153 |
THE AFTERDEATH WORLD | 155 |
THE PROCESS OF REBIRTH | 175 |
THE APPENDIX | 197 |
ADDENDA | 211 |
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Termos e frases comuns
¹ Text after-death Amitabha Amogha-Siddhi ancient Bardo Thödol Bhagavān birth Block-Print Bodhisattvas body born Buddha Buddhahood called Chönyid Bardo Christian Clear Light colour consciousness consciousness-principle corpse dawn Dead death devas devotee Dharma-Kāya Divine doctrine dying enlightened esoteric Evans-Wentz existence fear folio Goddess guru hath Hell Hindu holding human world incarnate intellect Intermediate karma karmic Kazi Dawa Kazi Dawa-Samdup Knowledge-Holding Lama lāmas Liberation light-path lotus Mahāyāna maṇḍala mantra meditate mental mind Mother mystic nature Nirvāṇa nobly-born Padma Sambhava Path Peaceful and Wrathful phenomena pron propensities psychic pure radiances Reality Realm rebirth recognize Sangsāra sangsāric Sanskrit setting-face-to-face shakti shine upon thee shishya Sidpa Bardo Six Lokas soul spiritual symbolical Tantric Tathāgata teachings Tertön thine thou art thou wilt thought-forms Tibet Tibetan Book Tibetan Buddhism tion trans translation tutelary deity Vairochana Vajra-Sattva visions Voidness W. Y. Evans-Wentz wandering Wisdom womb womb-door Wrathful Deities Yoga
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Página xviii - All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our dioughts.
Página xxxvi - For years, ever since it was first published, the Bardo Thodol has been my constant companion, and to it I owe not only many stimulating ideas and discoveries, but also many fundamental insights.