The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Since the search function seems to be broken and I didn't see anything about this book in the first five pages of the forum I figured I'd make a new topic about this book.

I'm only about a hundred or so pages in but it's been pretty great so far...

Any of you read it? Thoughts?

 

Can not say that I have....at first I thought you were talking about the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and I was going to go off on how much I enjoyed it and what I got out of it....What's this Tibetan Book of Living and Dying all about?

 

Same here, i thought the thread was referring to the Tibetan Book of the Dead....while we're on the topic though, i'd have to add that the Evans-Wentz edition of Book of the Dead is the best, as it includes psychological commentary by Carl Jung....

.....so, what is this book of which you speak?

 

Wow, hold up....Jung did a psychological commentary on it?!?!? I'm going to have to find this edition...

 

yeah, not only is Jung's commentary insightful, but Evans-Wentz gives a detailed description of his experiences while compiling his edition - i found that it really helped me to understand the actual meat of the book far better than other editions i've seen

 

fantastic book!

 

Read It About Four Years Ago, Must Find Time To Do So Again...



Cheers Glen.

 

This book is going on my list.

I read The Tibetan Book of The Dead and loved it. It totally changed the way I think I about life and death, and it helped me be a better person.

 

Tibetan book of living and dying is a book by Sogyal Rinpoche. it includes a new translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. i thought it was pretty good, towards the end it got really into the Dharmakaya-Sambhogakaya-Nirmanakaya philosophy, which I got really, really into for a while.

 

I had this book, started reading it, and then I burned it. Long story.

 

I'd recommend it. I had it long ago before I took a trip to NOLA and lost it.

 

I'd be interested in hearing this story...

 

You know in this particular period of time with the chinese communist takeover of Tibet there are many Buddhist/scholar teachers representing the ancient lineages that are available to us here in the west. This information is directly related on how to understand our experience in this reality and how to live a compassionate and satisfying life with respect to all.

 

I understand I'm necroposting here, but to all of you who read the tibetan book of the dead, did anyone else skip through the pages and pages and pages and pages or redundant weird rituals?

I gotta say I'm a bit disaspointed in this book. I'm really interested inthe philosophy (which I expected this to contain more of), but this whole ''if your left nostral is leaking green stuff, you could die in 11 days'' and so on is just heavy and boring and pointless to me.

 

I'm going to have to find this one. I have read about it in several other books on Buddhism. I highly recommend Lama Surya Das. He has made several of the Buddhist concepts very understandable for me.

 

just an fyi, did some research on the author of this book (sogyal rinpoche), and it appears he has a somewhat sordid past of using his status to coerce women into sexual activities. or at least that's what he has been accused of by numerous women who have come into contact with him.

refer to this wiki on him, under the "1990s and controversies": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogyal_Rinpoche

i still might continue to read this book, but i'll keep this in mind.