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The Tibetan Book of the Dead or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering

1927réf. 000013000Oxford: Oxford University Press 1927. First English language edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. 9 x-xliv 1 2-248 pp. Green cloth with a gold design stamped on the front board the Hindu/Buddhist swastika at the center of the design gold lettering and a gold decoration on the spine; top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with a double-sided frontispiece and with several plates of black and white photographs. Foreword by Sir John Woodroffe. 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 Common Era. 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 accourding 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. A contemporary bookplate on the front pastedown very light foxing to the title page. Overall a beautiful copy. Oxford University Press hardcover

Evening Star Books · États-Unis2 750,00 $US≈ 2 456,89 €

EVANS-WENTZ, Walter Yeeling (ed).Biblio.com

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

1927réf. 191086London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press 1927. Presented to an outstanding early 20th-century Tibetologist First edition presentation copy inscribed by the editor on the front free endpaper "To Sir Charles Bell With the compliments of the author W. Y. Evans-Wentz. Jesus College Oxford 12 August 1927." Bell 1870-1945 the former British political representative in Tibet and a friend of the 13th Dalai Lama is thanked in the preface for assisting Evans-Wentz's research in Darjeeling. Bell's career as a Tibetologist began in 1900 when he was posted to Darjeeling. In 1908 he became political agent in Sikkim which made him Britain's senior diplomatic actor in Tibet. In this capacity he had close contact with the translator of this work Kazi Dawa-Samdup 1868-1922 a Buddhist scholar who served on the Dalai Lama's staff and interpreted for Bell in their meetings as well as with Sir John Woodroffe the writer of the foreword. Following his retirement in 1921 Bell "devoted the rest of his life to making Tibet intelligible to the wider world" ODNB writing several works on the region's culture and religion. Evans-Wentz finished this translation after Samdup's death devising an English title that could invoke comparison with the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The text popularized Tibetan Buddhism in the West and inspired the likes of W. B. Yeats James Joyce and Carl Jung. The latter wrote an extended commentary which was published in the 1957 third edition. This copy was part of the Bell bequest to the Royal Central Asian Society. The society's accession bookplate and printed library rules are laid down on the front endpaper. Octavo. Frontispiece printed on both sides with photographic halftones 6 plates line drawing. Title page printed in red and black. Original green buckram spine lettered and stamped in gilt with Indian Wheel of Law boards panelled in blind front cover with gilt centrepiece of Lamaic Crossed Dorje top edge gilt others untrimmed. With dust jacket from the third edition 1957. Spine lightly sunned gentle toning internally: fine. hardcover

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni15 000,00 £GB≈ 17 915,16 €

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