The Tibetan Blog Of Living And Dying

It Saved My Life. It Woke Me Up

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Iñaki Sánchez, from Madrid writes: “Before finding The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, my state of mind could be described as follows: I was carried along by life, finding some degree of ‘fulfilment’ or entertainment in activities such as working, being with my family, watching football, playing sports and drinking beer. As for my [...]
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Remembering Khandro Tsering Chödrön

Saturday, May 4, 2013

It is now two years since Khandro Tsering Chödrön, the great dakini [female embodiment of enlightened energy] and accomplished practitioner, passed away. The embodiment of utter simplicity and unflagging faith and devotion, she was an inspiration to all who met her whether in the East or in the West, where she spent the last years [...]
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The Essence of the Buddha’s Teaching

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

During his recent teaching tour in Australia, Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, gave an inspired series of public talks in Sydney and Melbourne. In this first extract from a talk in Sydney, Rinpoche shares a teaching on the importance of discovering inner peace and contentment––what the Buddha called “the [...]
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Robert Thurman: Sogyal Rinpoche and The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying

Thursday, April 18, 2013

In an Interview, Robert Thurman Shares his thoughts on the Impact of Sogyal Rinpoche’s The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: “Dealing with the terrible difficulties of dying or having a relative or loved one die is a really hard thing. And in our culture we don’t do it well. But we’re doing it better [...]
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A Treasure in My Hands

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Cristina Iglesias from Madrid writes: “In August 2008, my partner and father of my daughter, whose name is Paris, was diagnosed with third stage pancreatic cancer. They didn’t give us any hope, but hope is the last thing there is to lose, and so we started a series of natural treatments and Paris came home [...]
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Min Hsin from Taiwan writes: “This is one of my favorite paragraphs from TBLD:

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How the Book Found me Part III

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Dr. Günter J. Bauer from Berlin and Hamburg writes: “I was in a book shop rummaging around for some books about Asian philosophy—in particular about the teachings of Confucius—I noticed the The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.