He describes the process of death, the tibetan bardo, and rebirth not in the usual terms of intellectual speculation and hypothesis but in terms of his own personal experience, of one who knows. The tibetan book of the dead, or bardo thodol, is considered a key text in understanding early tibetan religious views on life, death, and the afterlife. The tibetan book of the dead or the afterdeath experiences on the bardo plane english translation by lama kazi dawasamdup compiled and edited by w. Padmasambhava was not a traditional buddhist he also brought with him a lot of esoteric tantric teachings from other traditions and now tibetan buddhism as we now. This edition is special in that it translates the ancient reading of the bardo into a language that can be understood. In this book, osho describes time and its relevance to both his former life and the events of his current life. It is one of many mortuary texts of the nyingma sect of tibetan buddhism and is commonly recited to or by a person facing imminent death. Evanswentz with a new foreword and afterword by donald s. Evans wentz e book by summum foreword this book is the first english language translation of the famous tibetan death text, the great liberation upon hearing in the intermediate state. Unlocking the secrets of the tibetan book of the dead. In his introduction to the tibetan book of the dead, chogyam trungpa, says one should not just read.
When i heard osho speak about death and dying, a deep longing arose. Maneesha, nietzsche wrote his book the antichrist in the insane asylum. Thurman translates bar do thos grol as the great book of natural liberation through understanding in the between. He drew his inspiration from oshos vision of dying consciously and the tibetan book of the dead, also know as the bardo.
At one hundred pages exactly, this is a small book and eminently accessible. Unlike other translations of bar do thos grol or the tibetan book of the dead, robert thurmans takes literally the entire gamut of metaphysical assumptions. Meditation and the real you dying in rightmindfulness. Osho describes death as the root of all fears and as, potentially, a door to the divine. Pdf the tibetan book of the dead download read online.
God is dead, now zen is the only living truth osho world. These stage are what i would like to introduce readers to today. Ive always been fascinated by the state of bardo as described in ancient tibetan scriptures. The tibetan book of the dead s author is padmasambhava.
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