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Monday, May 16, 2011

Decoding The Past Tibetan Book Of The Dead

Decoding The Past Tibetan Book Of The Dead
DECODING THE PAST: Tibetan Listing Of The Dead

Based on the Buddhist belief in regeneration, the Listing of the Dead is a labor-intensive for the dead: a map of the afterlife that includes encounters with gods, demons and one's own intentional parents at the instance of indication. In black and white in the eighth century, its mark of the Tibetan afterlife bears an ghostly similitude to modern stories of the near-death join. In black and white by a gloomy Indian leading light, the manual was lost for centuries and standoffish central in the hard to find peaks of the Himalayas. Surely, the book was not even translated popular English until the twentieth century in the past it was proclaimed the ideal guide to the spiritual life by anyone from Carl Jung to Timothy Leary. Interviews with Tibetan Lamas, American scholars, and practicing Buddhists bring this powerful and gloomy manual to life. The programme culminates in a life-threatening conspire reduction of the move of the mood from death, candid the terrors and trials of the afterlife, to revitalization popular a new life.

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