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Listen Israel
(Paperback)
Rabbi Hillel Of Paritch; Translated by Rabbi Amiram Markel, Rabbi Yehudah S Markel
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R351
Discovery Miles 3 510
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"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 quoted 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.
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