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The Tibetan Book of the Dead (The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between)
from Bantam Books, Inc.

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• Scholarship meets practice from a professor-adept
  Prof. Thurman's strength is that he combines academic skills with personal conviction about the truth of what he translates. Many scholars may scoff; many seekers may smile. The value of this formidable ninth-century "treasure-text" of considerably advanced instructions for the passage through the illusions of the afterlife lies in its haranguing-- if one's own hallucinated terrors and wonders manage to be manifested rather than the stunning blackness of unconsciousness.
  You get the impression from... more info

• Tibet's gift to the world, presented by Robert Thurman
  This book is an atlas. It is a valuable friend that will do more than save your life, it will alter your destiny beyond life as well. It is an essential guidebook for every voyager through life, death and rebirth. Inside are complete instructions to recognize every "in between state" and how to use them by remembering your true nature to become liberated from the wheel of death or to choose the best rebirth, instead of unconsciously falling into a random rebirth...like we have been doing for eons.
  It... more info

• At least he was honest
  In the introduction, Thurman admits that he prefers the Geluk tradition to the Nyingma tradition out of which this text arose. He agrees to translate this text to capitalize on the name recognition (despite the fact that he obviously doesn't think very highly of it), and uses entirely different Geluk materials to base his own commentary on.
  If you want to read a better translation of the text from someone who belongs to and esteems the tradition from which it arose, get the 2006 Penguin Books... more info

• As False as False can get
  Talk about lies
  The Author says, once your expired from your current life here, your not dead and finished, you move onto another life, and that your next life depends on this life, so you have to make an effort here and now.
  Note I said "here and now" keep this in mind.
  To keep this simple and short, how about this:
  Everyone knows someone at your job site, someone who has a better position than you, or others below them, yet this person, or even multiple person(s), have a multitude of... more info

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