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Read the essence of tibetan buddhism by lama yeshe available from rakuten kobo. Only by inference, its not written into it, as it were. You can check the availability of the book through this online catalog system by entering the name of the author or title of the book if you want to inquire about a particular book, you can provide us the book accnum through which we can provide you. Sarah harding,60 spring lane, boulder, co 80302 303 7869257. The appearance of khyuying indicates the mature of the tibetan calligraphy, because only with quite solid foundation in writing other tibetan scripts can one write the khyuyings well. The bardo thodol commonly known in the west as the tibetan book of the dead, is a text from. On the face of it, it is a book of what happens to you after death. During the seminar he used a tibetan text, while the audience followed in the evanswentz edition. This year marks twenty years since the publication of the tibetan book of living and dying in german.
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