TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lopez,Donald S.
TI  - The Tibetan book of the dead: a biography 
T2  - Lives of great religious books
SN  - 9781400838042
AV  - BQ4490.K373 L66 2011eb
U1  - 294.3/85 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Karma-gliṅ-pa,
KW  - Bar do thos grol (Karma-gliṅ-pa)
KW  - fast
KW  - Death
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Comparative studies
KW  - Future life
KW  - Mort
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Études comparatives
KW  - Vie future
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Tibetan
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-170) and index; America -- India -- Tibet -- The world -- Conclusion
N2  - 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
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