THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, Evans-Wentz; 1st First British Edition 1927, Fine

Description: THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD or the After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane, according to Lāma Dazi Dawa-Samdup’s English Rendering by W.Y. EVANS-WENTZ with Foreword by Sir John Woodroffe Oxford University Press August 1927 A very fine copy of the first British edition, published in 1927, with a rarely found dust cover. This is a premium collector’s specimen copy. Green cloth with a gilt design stamped on the front board, gold lettering and a gold decoration on the spine; top edge lightly gilt. Cloth book, binding and gilding in very fine condition. Dust cover has some tears, title clearly displayed, edition date August 1927 printed on reverse of dust cover. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with a double-sided frontispiece and with black and white photographs of editor and translator and of manuscript pages of the Bardo Thödol MS. Several black and white photographs throughout book. Foreword by Sir John Woodroffe. No inscriptions, marking or torn pages. No stickers or labels. Binding still very tight. Very lightly noticeable watermark on top edge of book. See photograph. FREE shipping. We will pack in acid free paper with bubble wrap and send fully insured. No returns, so please view photographs carefully. Request for additional photograph details or video. ~~~ World History Encyclopedia, Joshua J. Mark, "Tibetan Book of the Dead". According to the traditional story, Lotus Guru Padmasambhava and a female disciple, Yeshe Tsogyal, wrote the texts that would become the Bardo Thodol (the Tibetan Book of the Dead) during the eighth century of the A.D. The texts became lost to time until they were found and disseminated orally by Karma Lingpa (in the fourteenth century). Although written as a guide to assist and comfort the dead, the work has taken on a new life as a guide for the living on spiritual transformation and self-improvement. The buddhist text is divided into six sections, beginning with the moment of death until the moment that the deceased soul is either reborn, or breaks the cycle of reincarnation (samsara). The book was intended to shepherd the recently deceased through these cycles of the intermediate stages of reality, and was read aloud at funeral rites for either days or weeks at a time by a monk. It was not until the twentieth century that the work was published in English. Walter Evans-Wentz was an anthropologist and scholar of Tibet and sought Dawa-Samdup's help in translating the texts from Tibetan into English. Dawa-Samdup died in 1922,after completing the funerary section of the book, and Evans-Wentz filled in the rest according to his own knowledge. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is an excellent example of the core tenets of Buddhism, and of eastern philosophy in general.

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