The Tibetan book of the dead: A biography

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography

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  Lopez, Donald S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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References (35)

1. Sigmund Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. 14 (London: Hogarth Press, 1957), p. 289.
2. W. Y . Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead; or, The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lāma Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering (London: Oxford University Press, 1960), p. xix. All subsequent references will be provided in the body of the text by page numbers in parentheses following the citation.
3. The account of the life of Joseph Smith, both here and in the Conclusion and the Coda, is drawn largely from the compelling biography of Smith by Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough
4. http://www.strangite.org/Plates.htm.
5. Alfred Percy Sinnett, Esoteric Buddhism (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1885), pp. 181-82.
6. See James Joyce, Ulysses (New Y ork: Modern Library, 1961), pp. 301-2.
7. W. Y . Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries (New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, Inc., 1966), p. 140.
8. Adapted from Erik Haarh, The Yarlung Dynasty (Copenhagen: G.E.C. Gad's Forlag, 1969), p. 144.
9. See Bryan J. Cuevas, The Hidden History of the Ti betan Book of the Dead (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 46.
10. See Gyurme Dorje, trans., The Tibetan Book of the Dead (London: Penguin Books, 2005), pp. xlii-xliii. For a similar prophecy, see Cuevas, pp. 87-88.
11. Gyurme Dorje, trans., The Tibetan Book of the Dead, pp. 238-39.
12. See Cuevas, pp. 128-31.
13. L. Austine Waddell, The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism, cited from the 1972 Dover reprint issued under the new title, Tibetan Buddhism: With Its Mystic Cults, Symbolism and Mythology (New Y ork: Dover Publications, 1972), p. xi.
14. See note 4 in the Introduction.
15. See Dasho P. W. Samdup, "A Brief Biography of Kazi Dawa Samdup (1868-1922)," Bulletin of Tibetology 44 (no. 1 and 2) 2008, pp. 155-58.
16. Alexandra David-Neel, Magic and Mystery in Tibet (New Y ork: Dover Publications, 1971), pp. 15, 17, 19.
17. Ken Winkler, Pilgrim of the Clear Light (Berkeley, CA: Dawnfire Books, 1982), p. 44. The other biographical information on Evans-Wentz in this chapter is drawn from Winkler's book. A useful summary is provided by John Myrdhin Reynolds in Self-Liberation Through Seeing with Naked Awareness (Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1989), pp. 71-78.
18. For a history of the claim that Buddhism and sci ence are compatible, see Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008).
19. The biographical details that follow are drawn from the rather reverential biography by Ken Winkler, A Thousand Journeys: The Biography of Lama Anagarika Govinda (Longmead, England: Element Books, 1990).
20. Lama Anagarika Govinda, Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism (New Y ork: Samuel Weiser, 1969), p. 25.
21. Lama Anagarika Govinda, The Inner Structure of the I Ching, The Book of Transformations (New Y ork: Weatherhill, 1981), p. xi.
22. Lama Anagarika Govinda, Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism (New Y ork; Samuel Weiser, 1969), p. 13.
23. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 1 (Los Angeles: The Theosophy Company, 1947), p. 303. This is a facsimile of the original 1888 edition.
24. "Tibetan T eachings" in H. P. Blavatsky, Collected Writings 1883-1884-1885, vol. 6 (Los Angeles: Blavatsky Writings Publication Fund, 1954), p. 98.
25. For the early Theosophists, "science" was often used as a synonym of "theosophy." See, for example, Henry Steel Olcott, A Buddhist Catechism, fortyfourth edition (Adyar, Madras: The Theosophical Publishing House, 1947).
26. H. P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, vol. 2, p. 303.
27. W. Y . Evans-Wentz, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, p. 365.
28. W. Y . Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation (London: Oxford University Press, 1968), p. 116, note 1.
29. In his Introductory Foreword, Lama Govinda argues that the book is "not merely a mass for the dead, to which the Bardo Thödol was reduced in later times." (lxi)
30. See Bryan J. Cuevas, The Hidden History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, pp. 117-18. For a very useful description of the available manuscripts and printed versions of the T ibetan text, see pp. 205-15. 26, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Death: The Final Stage of Growth (New Y ork: T ouchstone Books, 1986), p.
31. Raymond Moody, Life After Life: The investigation of a phenomenon--survival of bodily death (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Stackpole Books, 1976), p. 109.
32. See Francesca Freemantle and Chögyam T rungpa, trans., The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo (Boulder, CO: Shambhala, 1975), p. 8. For a further discussion of this translation, see Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Prisoners of Shangri-La, pp. 76-78.
33. Gyurme Dorje, trans., The Tibetan Book of the Dead, p. xxvi.
34. See Bhikkhu Ñānamoli, trans., The Middle Length Sayings of the Buddha (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1995), p. 256.
35. "Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate Phenomena Connected with the Theosophical Society," Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, vol. 3 (December 1885), pp. 204-5.