Research Catalog

Title

The Tibetan book of the dead for reading aloud / Jean-Claude van Itallie.

Author

Karma-gliṅ-pa, active 14th century

Publication

Berkeley, Calif. : North Atlantic Books, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Van Itallie, Jean Claude, 1936-2021

Description

xv, 62 p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.

Summary

The Tibetan Book of the Dead for Reading Aloud is famed playwright Jean-Claude van Itallie{u2019}s poetic adaptation of traditional Tibetan passages used to aid and comfort at the time of death. His lyrical and insightful poetry is accompanied by Gerry Vezzuso{u2019}s vivid photographs, Tibetan art, and other images evocative of this process. This text leads us through the stages we experience after death and helps us to overcome the ambitions, desires, jealousies, and fears that can obscure our understanding of ourselves and our transition into the next life. -- from publisher description.

Uniform Title

Bar do thos grol. English

Alternative Title

Bar do thos grol.

Subjects

• Early works
• Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies > Early works to 1800
• Death > Religious aspects > Buddhism > Early works to 1800
• Intermediate state > Buddhism > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Early works

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1556432739 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^97049579^

OCLC

• 38014082
• SCSB-12437556

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library