TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD: A BIOGRAPHY

The Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famed Buddhist text in the west. Donald Lopez examines the history of this book, showing how a relatively obscure and malleable collection of Buddhist texts of uncertain origins came to be revered - and severely misunderstood - in Western culture. This fascinating look into the origins of this famous text is more relevant now than ever before with the rise of Buddhism in America.