BARDO THODOL | The Tibetan Book of the Dead

in tibet •  7 years ago  (edited)


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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Evans-Wentz
Walther Evans-Wentz was an Oxford-educated American anthropologist who travelled to Tibet and translated the Bardo Thodol into English, introducing it to the Western world
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_Lingpa
Karma Lingpa re-discovered the text of the Bardo Thodol, after being hidden from the world for 600 years
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmasambhava
Padmasambhava is the author of Bardo Thodol, founder of Tibetan Buddhism and of Tantric Buddhism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardo_Thodol
Bardo Thodol is widely known in the West as the Tibetan Book of the Dead

By contrast, this is the Irish way of dying:
https://www.facebook.com/bbc/videos/2224550397560147/

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