Gyurme Dorje (PhD) is a leading scholar of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. His seven major publications include works on Tibetan lexicography, medicine, divination and pilgrimage guides to Tibet and Bhutan, as well as translations of HH Dudjom Rinpoche's The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism.
Graham Coleman is President of the Orient Foundation (UK), a major Tibetan cultural conservancy organization. Writer/director of the acclaimed feature documentary Tibet: A Buddhist Trilogy and editor of the Handbook of Tibetan Culture, he has been editing Tibetan Buddhist poetry and prose texts in cooperation with various distinguished translators since the mid-1970s.
Thupten Jinpa (Phd) is the senior translator to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and President of the Institute of Tibetan Classics. His works include the translation of twelve books by the Dalai Lama, such as the New York Times bestseller Ethics for a New Millennium and The Universe in a Single Atom, the Dalai Lama's perspective on the meeting of Buddhism and modern science.
This new translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a
tremendous accomplishment. The whole text is a vast source of
inspiration. (Francesca Fremantle, Buddhadharma magazine)
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outside Tibet . . . now in its finest and most complete form in
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Profound and unique, it is one of the great treasures of wisdom in
the spiritual heritage of humanity. (Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying)
One of the great scripts of world civilization . . . a voyage
inside the profound imagination of a people, immaculately rendered
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I hope that the profound insights contained in this work will be a
source of inspiration and support to many interested people around
the world. (His Holiness The Dalai Lama)
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