The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography

by Donald S. Lopez Jr.

Book Overview

How an eccentric spiritualist from Trenton, New Jersey, helped create the most famous text of Tibetan Buddhism

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691134359
• ISBN13: 9780691134352
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.8"