First published in 1989, Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting is required reading for Christian philosophers, theologians, psychologists, and students interested in the mind-body question.

Derived from a Buddhist funerary text, this famous volume's timeless wisdom includes instructions for attaining enlightenment, preparing for the process of dying, and moving through the various stages of rebirth.

The classic of Buddhist wisdom and religious thought, intended to prepare the soul for the trials and transformations of the afterworld.

An authoritative and first unabridged translation of a major Buddhist text Overwhelmingly the most significant of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West, The Tibetan Book of the Deadhas had a number of distinguished translations, but none ...

As a contribution to the science of death and dying - not to mention the belief in life after death, or the belief in texts of the world, for its socio-cultural influence in this regard is without comparison."--BOOK JACKET.

A fascinating look at Buddhist, especially Tibetan, views of death and their implications for a Buddhist bioethics.

'What is it I hope for from this book? To inspire a quiet revolution in the whole way we look at death and care for the dying and the whole way we look at life, and care for the living.

The 'books of the dead' are universally relevant as maps of a terrain that each of us will one day traverse. The art of dying and the posthumous journey of the soul have been depicted by many cultures.