Tibetan buddhism and the resolution of grief: The Bardo-thodol for the dying and the grieving

Death Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 377-395

  Goss, Robert E ^a   Klass, Dennis ^a  

^a WEBSTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CHINA; DEATH; DYING; HUMAN; MOURNING; RELIGION;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BUDDHISM; CULTURE; GRIEF; HUMANS; LITERATURE; THANATOLOGY; TIBET;

EID: 0030810983     PISSN: 07481187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/074811897201895     Document Type: Article

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