List of Illustrations | x | ||||
Acknowledgements | xi | ||||
Acknowledgements for the Illustrations | xiv | ||||
Introductory Commentary by His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama | xv | ||||
Editor's Introduction | xxxi | ||||
A Brief Literary History of the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Gyurme Dorje | xxxviii | ||||
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10. Consciousness Transference: Natural Liberation through Recollection | 197 | ||||
11. The Great Liberation by Hearing | 217 | ||||
12. Aspirational Prayers | 305 | ||||
13. A Masked Drama of Rebirth | 317 | ||||
14. Liberation by Wearing: Natural Liberation of the Psycho-physical Aggregates | 343 | ||||
Appendix One: Peaceful and Wrathful Deities and the Tibetan Book of the Dead | 381 | ||||
Appendix Two: Symbolism of the Mandala of the Peaceful and Wrathful Deities | 387 | ||||
Notes | 403 | ||||
Bibliography | 436 | ||||
Glossary of Key Terms | 443 | ||||
Thematic Index by Chapter |
529 |