The Tibetan Book of the Dead : : A Biography / / Donald S. Lopez.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927. Carl Jung wrote a commentary on it, Timothy Leary redesigned it as a guidebook for an acid trip, and the Beatles "ed Leary's ve...
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Lopez, Donald S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Tibetan Book of the Dead : A Biography / Donald S. Lopez. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2011 1 online resource (192 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Lives of Great Religious Books ; 5 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. America -- Chapter 2. India -- Chapter 3. Tibet -- Chapter 4. The World -- Conclusion -- Coda -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927. Carl Jung wrote a commentary on it, Timothy Leary redesigned it as a guidebook for an acid trip, and the Beatles "ed Leary's version in their song "Tomorrow Never Knows." More recently, the book has been adopted by the hospice movement, enshrined by Penguin Classics, and made into an audiobook read by Richard Gere. Yet, as acclaimed writer and scholar of Buddhism Donald Lopez writes, "The Tibetan Book of the Dead is not really Tibetan, it is not really a book, and it is not really about death." In this compelling introduction and short history, Lopez tells the strange story of how a relatively obscure and malleable collection of Buddhist texts of uncertain origin came to be so revered--and so misunderstood--in the West. The central character in this story is Walter Evans-Wentz (1878-1965), an eccentric scholar and spiritual seeker from Trenton, New Jersey, who, despite not knowing the Tibetan language and never visiting the country, crafted and named The Tibetan Book of the Dead. In fact, Lopez argues, Evans-Wentz's book is much more American than Tibetan, owing a greater debt to Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky than to the lamas of the Land of Snows. Indeed, Lopez suggests that the book's perennial appeal stems not only from its origins in magical and mysterious Tibet, but also from the way Evans-Wentz translated the text into the language of a very American spirituality. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Death Religious aspects Comparative studies. Future life Comparative studies. RELIGION / Buddhism / Tibetan. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691134352 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400838042 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400838042 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400838042.jpg |
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