The Tibetan book of the dead; or, The after-death experiences on the Bardo plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English rendering. [Bar do thos grol. English]

New York, Oxford University Press, 1960, 1974, 1974. Book. Good. Soft cover. 3rd Edition. [3rd Galaxy 1957 edition, 1974 Oxford University printing] ; lxxxiv, 249 pages illustrations, portrait 21 cm. ; ISBN: 0195002237; 9780195002232 LCCN: 60-13909 ; LC: BL1411.B3; BQ1652.E5; Dewey: 294.3223; OCLC: 981933 ; stiff, photographic paper wrappers ; Contents: The importance of the Bardo Thodol -- The symbolism -- The esotcric significance of the forty-nine days of the Bardo -- The esoteric significance of the five elements -- The wisdom teachings -- The death ceremonies -- The Bardo, or after-death state -- The psychology of the Bardo visions -- The judgment -- The rebirth doctrine -- The cosmography -- The fundamental teachings summarized -- The manuscript -- The origin of the Bardo Thodol -- The translating and the editing -- Book I: the Chikhai Bardo and the Chonyid Bardo -- The transference of the consciousness-principle -- The reading of this Thodol -- The practical application of this Thodol by the officiant -- Part I. the Bardo of the moments of death -- Instructions on the symptoms of death or the first stage of the Chikhai Bardo: the primary clear light seen at the moment of death -- Instructions concerning the second stage of the Chikhai Bardo: the secondary clear light seen immediately after death -- Part II: the Bardo of the experiencing of reality -- Introductory instructions concerning the experiencing of reality during the third stage of the Bardo, called the Chonyid bardo, when the Karmic apparitions appear -- The dawning of the peaceful deities from the first to the seventh day -- the first through seventh day -- The dawning of the wrathful deities from the eight to the fourteenth day -- The eighth to the fourteenth day -- The conclusion, showing the fundamental importance of the Bardo teachings -- Book II: the Sidpa Bardo -- The obeisances -- introductory verses -- part I: the after-death world -- The Bardo body: its birth and its supernormal faculties -- Characteristics of existence in the intermediate state -- The judgment -- The all-determining influence of thought -- The dawning of the lights of the six Lokas -- Part II: the process of rebirth -- The closing of the door of the womb -- Method of preventing entry into a womb -- The first through fifth method of closing the womb-door -- The closing of the womb-door -- the premonitory visions of the place rebirth -- The protection against the tormenting furies -- The alternative choosing: supernormal birth; or womb-birth -- Supernatural birth by transference to a paradise realm -- Womb-birth: the return to the human wolrd -- The general conclusion -- The appendix -- The invocation of the Buddahs and Bodhisattvas -- 'The path of good wishes for saving from the dangerous narrow passage-way of the Bardo' -- 'The root verses of the six Bardos' -- 'The path of good wishes which protecteth from fear in the Bardo' -- The colophon -- Addenda -- Yoga -- Tantricism -- Mantras, or words of power -- The Guru and Shishya (or Chela) and Christianity -- The medieval Christian judgment. ; Compiled and edited by W.Y. Evans-Wentz.; "Evans-Wentz, who literally sat at the feet of a Tibetan lama for years in order to acquire his knowledge" ; some wear and yellowing, else G.