Hidden away for many centuries, this ancient spiritual text reveals the secrets of enlightened living and life after death. It offers timeless guidance on finding inner contentment in our everyday lives, on how to help those who are dying or bereaved, and presents the Tibetan Buddhist vision of a blissful journey towards a higher state of being.

INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY BY HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA

‘Offers the wisdom of the Tibetan ancients to a jaded modern world’ Sunday Telegraph
‘One of the great scripts of civilization’ Time Out
‘I can’t imagine anybody aware of his or her own temporal humanity not wanting to find out what this book says… this version is by far the most complete and comprehensive to date’ Independent on Sunday
‘Magnificent… beautiful verse meditations’ Guardian
‘A new and comprehensive translation of one of the seminal works of Tibetan Buddhism’ Richard Gere
‘One of the great treasures of wisdom in the spiritual heritage of humanity’ Sogyal Rinpoche,
author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying