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Buddhist teachings on facing death with openness and insight, from the author of The Healing Power of Mind—now in paperback

Buddhism teaches that death can be a springboard to enlightenment—yet for all but the most advanced meditators, it will be the gateway to countless future lives of suffering in samsara. Tulku Thondup wrote this guide to help us heal our fear and confusion about death and strengthen our practice in anticipation of this transition, and to help us realize the enlightened goal of ultimate peace and joy—not only for death and rebirth, but for this very lifetime. In simple language, he distills a vast range of sources, including scriptures, classic commentaries, oral teachings, and firsthand accounts.

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"A remarkably lucid distillation of Tibetan Buddhist teachings on how the state of our minds in life affects the nature and quality of our experiences in death. The result is a provocative and surprisingly compelling work that will appeal to beginners and advanced practitioners alike.”—Publishers Weekly

“A healing treasure from Tulku Thondup: a clear, complete, and compassionate guidebook to the journey through life, dying, death, and beyond. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, including the Tibetan near-death experiences, he shows to what extent the quality of our life, death, and rebirth all depend upon the mind.”—Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

"Tulku Thondup has opened this vast treasury of knowledge in a clear, simple, and powerful way for the modern audience.”—Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, author of Turning the Mind into an Ally

"Tulku Thondup explains fully and clearly each stage of the process that leads from this life to the next. The book contains a valuable section devoted to the care and support of those who are approaching death, and includes a selection of meditations and rituals that may be used to help the dying and the dead, which will be of great benefit to many people. ” —Francesca Fremantle, author of Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead

About the Author

Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, an esteemed author and teacher, was born in East Tibet and studied at the famed Dodrupchen Monastery. In 1958 he settled in India, where he taught at Indian universities for many years. He came to the United States in 1980 as a visiting scholar at Harvard University. For the past two decades he has lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, engaging in translation and writing on Tibetan Buddhism, particularly the Nyingma teachings, under the auspices of the Buddhayana Foundation. Among his books are The Healing Power of Mind, which has been published in seventeen languages, and Boundless Healing, in twelve languages.

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Shambhala; 1st Edition edition (December 12, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1590303857
ISBN-13: 978-1590303856
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Greeneleaf

This is a great book to help to prepare to face our undoubted ...

January 5, 2018

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This is a great book to help to prepare to face our undoubted mortality. Speaks to how to live as well as how to prepare to transition out of this life.

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L. Gottlieb

How to die well --- a practical handbook

June 8, 2009

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The Tibetans have for centuries been the scientific experts on dying and rebirth (rebirth was a tenet even of Christianity until Nicea). Their Book of the Dead was deliberately written in such a way as to keep its practices secret.

In this age of spiritual poverty and moral cowardice, even formerly esoteric teachings are out there for anyone to find, yet there is no "gold rush" for real teachers or their teachings: the concomitant suffering that following one's conscience inevitably produces "turns off" so many people that the really popular teachings produce only "highs", and no real transformation whatsoever.

Here is a reincarnated Tibetan lama, Western-educated, speaking to us in the West about what is necessary to attain to a better rebirth. With his instructions, all the obstacles to actually "doing" this-----are in us.

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G. Kaessner

Everything you are likely looking for

July 21, 2006

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I had been recommended this book by a fellow Buddhist practicitioner who does much work with terminally ill patients. Our Buddhist Practice group (Sangha) seemed to have many death and dying issues coming up recently.

If you are looking for a book on the death and dying process from a Vajrayana Buddhist perspective, in my opinion, this is the book to buy.

Tulku Thondup is highly recognized as a Nyingma Master as well as being University Professor and excellent writer.

If you want to acquire an exhastive academic book on the "The Great Liberation upon Hearing in the Intermediate State" (commonly known as the Tibetan Book of the Dead here in the West) I would suggest also buying Graham Coleman's version.

However, for practice purposes and general understanding, Tulku Thondup's "Peace Death, Joyful Rebirth" is unmatched. He not only covers the essence of this text but also recounts wonderful information as only taught by a Tibetan Nyingma Master.

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Fred Elgin

How-to die

May 27, 2015

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A practical book on how to die. It lays out what will happen to us, and (we hope) how to meet it.

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Accessable Budhism

February 23, 2012

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Tulku Thondip presents important ideas clearly and directly, but without sacrificing Tibetian cultural tones. My wife passed away recently, and the book offered a peaceful, open-hearted way for me to try and be of service to her, to myself, and to all beings. Death is an opportunity for both the dying and the living, a precious moment when our deepest awareness becomes energised. Tulku Thondip's work is a living harness for this timeless energy.

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Great read

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After We Die - a guidebook

November 24, 2006

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PLEASE NOTE: I RATE THIS THREE STARS, BUT AM UNABLE TO CORRECT THE SCALE WHICH INCORRECTLY SHOWS ONLY ONE STAR. THANK YOU:
Tulku Thondup's Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth is unique among Tibetan books. It concentrates on our experience after we die and is a guidebook that outlines what to expect when we pass from mortal life to post-life experiences. For example it provides stories of experiences during a time of judgment in the Bardo state.

Thondup gives us vivid details and sample experiences of practitioner's passing sensations during their time of death. It also offers a sense of the wide range of worlds our consciousness may experience after mortal death, everything from hellish chimaeras to celestial, peaceful visions.

His book places heavy emphasis on karma and the belief that deeds determine our experience in a life after this one. It stresses that a consious, kindly life leads to a positive afterlife while a self-centered life leads to more hellish worlds.

With its unique and detailed picture of the relms of consciouness after death, Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth is a worthy addition to the body of literature on the subject of dying and the afterlife.

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Ariella Schaerer

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November 18, 2017

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Excellent and with so much insight! Absolutely everyone should read this book!

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